Looking to try new active pickups

[lofty needle]

Hi all,
I play a ESP LTD M-1000 with fishman fluence moderns but I want to try out other pickups to see if I can get a better sound out of them. I play a lot of genres, from jazz to metal and need really good cleans as well as distortion. I'm thinking of going of an EMG 81TWX + EMG 89RX or Seymor Duncan alt metal blackouts or Blackouts HB. If any of you have tried these or have better suggestions, what would you reccomend?

[wise thicket]

EMG's are not really known for their clean sounds since they sound pretty compressed

[digital otter]

if you want to go from jazz to metal i'd stick to the fishmans

or try out fishman fluence classics if you want paf voicing

sd dualitys are another choice ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8xQl404FdE

[lofty needle]

is it a bad compressed? are there any specific models that are less compressed

[viscid snow]

no emgs just have that feel due to how theyre made

also have i seen this post somewhere before

[viscid snow]

i like the sound of duncan retribution more than blackout

actually anything but blackout

i dont like mud-when-gain-knob-over-3-pickups

[lofty needle]

mmm i might try them at a store someday

any guitars come in stock with them?

[viscid snow]

odnt think so

extremely rare on oem guitars

if not flat out nonexistent

i stg why does every single guitar company and their mom only put duncan blackouts on their high end duncan pickup guitars

[digital otter]

i see fishmans more than blackouts these days

[viscid snow]

yeah

probably because i look at esp too much

[lofty needle]

yeah i’ve been looking and i haven’t seen any at any store in person or online

[still pasture]

Don’t know abt you but I love the cleans of emgs, I think they also started out as being popular in jazz due to the compression and low noise

[wise thicket]

i have nothing against the sound of clean EMG's ... but as I said... they are not the first thought that come to mind when I think 'clean sound'

[still pasture]

Definitely not the first but I still think abt em

Like even gilmour has signature emgs lol

[wise thicket]

but not the bog-standard 81 85 set

[still pasture]

Anyways I don’t think you should change the fishmans for other stuff, at the end of the day your amp and cab are going to have way more of an impact on your tone

If the pickups have the output you’re looking for, and the feel and response that you enjoy you won’t really need something else

Fishmans are also really versatile depending on how they are wired

If I could I’d probably put them on all my guitars lol

Mainly because they can be split without losing volume and getting hiss

[viscid snow]

yea