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I own a lot of guitars and I have modified a bunch and even built several from scratch, so I have a lot of experience with many different pickups. I mostly use Seymour Duncans, but I've also experimented a lot with boutique brands like Railhammer and Lace. I just put Alumitones in a Stratocaster, and they are OK, and I bought the Brent Hinds Epiphone V, which features his Lace signature pickups and it's good, too. So next I bought these Dissonant Aggressors after many months of thinking about it, and boy am I pleased with them. I put them in a guitar similar in construction to the Kelliher signature guitar by ESP, in that it has a mahogany neck and body, and neck-through construction. I'm using 500k pots and a .047 orange cap. I put a set of 11s on it and dropped it to D. These pickups sound beautiful clean, especially on the lower strings, with a rich, bell-like ring to them. Distorted they have a nice tight bite that really lets you hear every note in a chord or in arpeggios... not surprising considering all the riffing Bill Kelliher does. They are not as harsh as the Brent Hinds pickups which have a lot of midrange to them. I like the Hinds sound, but these are more versatile and warmer. I've got Duncan Blackbacks in another guitar, which are really versatile, and an Alternative 8 bridge and Full Shred neck in another, and these Kelliher pups are just closer to the sound in my head, if you know what I mean. Clean or dirty, they sound great and there is also a healthy difference between the bridge and neck. I have a lot of tonal options between a couple of Strats, a Tele, an ES-335, and a Brian Setzer Gretsch, but for rock/metal these pickups have instantly become my favorites. I'm looking forward to laying some tracks with this guitar and the Hinds Flying V to see how close to Mastodon they'll sound together.Read full review
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