guitar pickup selection

[Night Slayer]

alright, for all you guitarests like me, heres a question for you

alright, im greatly displeased with my guitars., i have crappy fender quire strat, and a crapy jackson dinky something, i dont know, but i hate my guitars. sure, outa my fender, i can get a desent metal tone i want, but only on bridge. i cant get any artificial harmonics. my jackson, gets a a beter metal tone, but i still cant get those harmonics, while on my other pickups i get the same tone with little difference. ive been watching these other guitars, and i say to my self, i like the body and the pickups, and they have AMAZING TONE! i might get a new guitar for my b-day next month, the one im trying to get is the esp ltd v-200. its got all my specifications, great tone with metal and clean. on the neck pickup i can get a bluesy kind of rock tone (something like Stevie Ray Vaughan) tone out of a metal distortion. 24 extra J frets, a big fat neck ( i got long fingers, so i love big necks).

my price range is 70 dollars, which is really bad due to i only have this pre paid credit card with 75 on it. i just want to replace one of my guitars bridge pickups. if its my jackson it would have to be a humbucker, for my fender it would be a single coil.

help please?
thanks in advance, and rock on my fellow guitarists!

 

[Newman]

I would say get a set of EMG active pick ups, they work amazing (have a set in my guitar) but i think they cost around 150usd, i also believe they make single coil, adn i know they make active humbuckers . i would still say get any EMG pickups though
and when u get a new guitar i would recommend you get something like this

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/ESP-LTD-KH602-Kirk-Hammett-Signature-Guitar?sku=516641

i have an older version of this guitar and everything about it is amazing


thats my advice on what you should do but everything is ultimately up to you

 

[Night Slayer]

hahahaha, my parents arent up to spending that money, but ive looked at that guitar on the main esp websight. and i dont think my parents want to buy my pickups. im looking at a set of 69 dollar EMGs right now though

 

[masterofpuppets]

Mess with your set up before you drop loads of money on new pickups. If you can't get pinch harmonics at ALL you're either A)playing a bad set up or B) playing it wrong. A properly set up strat, Squire or mex/ameri Fender, with a good solid state amp can get some rad metal tones.

 

[Frazar]

you have a music lab at your school? Get to know the teacher and steal his... That's what i did

 

[Night Slayer]

hahaha at frazarman!
um i messed with all my settings already, i know every bit of tone, i have this fender strat squire bullet i belive, and i just found my jackson, its a Jackson JS20 Dinky Electric Guitar, i know my harmonics work, i just have to get a huge amount of distortion, with a really noisy tone and it works perfictly amazing for harmonics.

if it maters at all im playing through a line 6 spider III 120 modualing combo amp