BassWithABass
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I love the 245 pickups, you want to try a little experiment with try an unoriented Alnico 5 in the bridge and a Alnico 3 in the neck. This smooths out the bridge a little and gives you almost P-90 like sweetness and bell like chime from the neck, I have this combination in my son's Singlecut Trem and my Santana SE, Very similar in sound to the 58/15 and also Gibsons 59 Tribute humbuckers to my ears. you can thank me later.
Hello, new to the forum and I realise this is an oldish thread but I am after advice on something within it if possible. I read this last night whilst toying with some upgrade for my 2015 I think it was Tremonti se which I think is now sold as a 245. It's the single cut with 2 HB and no trem. Anyway I saw your advice and ordered the magnets from amazon so they should be here in a few days. I was wondering how hard the swap is regarding getting the magnets out as I am also going to be upgrading my 1996 epi LP including replacing the pups with some new ones so I stripped that down this morning and thought I would have a go at taking the magnet out but it is stuck fast with so much wax. I don't mind using these old pickups as a test bed to make sure things go well with my PRS but if it is too much of a risk I will probably not carry out the magnet swap on the PRS.
Also curious what magnets are in the stock PRS pups I have, I am going to guess ceramic in the bridge and maybe an alnico 5 in the neck from what I have read about the tones they offer?
Thanks anyway for reading and hopefully replying