PRS SE pickup replacement options

[altoguitar]

Yes everytime I install pickups with a guitar that has a coil splitting option its pretty much standard to keep it that way. The dimarzios I put in for a client I put in with coil splitting. You are correct though that it has to be a 4 conductor setup.

This is exactly what I was wondering. So 4 conductor is needed. I will probably go with the DiMarzio [D Activator neck] and [D Activator-X bridge]. I will just have a tech do it. Thanks!

 

[revtime]

I have an PRS custom SE 24 and I was about to change the pair of pickups with a pair of Suhr's thornbuckers.
But it turned out that the width of my PRS pickups is way smaller than the thornbucker's, both neck and bridge.
I wonder if it happened to anyone here, or my prs is just a bad one...

I have a set of thornbuckers in my se custom 24 08. They were in it when I bought it and didnt know till I got it home. They sure do seem to fit perfectly.

 

[frankencat]

I have Thornbuckers in one of my Custom 24’s, no issues with spacing or anything else. They sound killer.

 

[Lewguitar]

Seymour Duncan 59 Model Humbucker and a JB Model Humbucker (bridge) keep popping up on my radar as well... bad direction?

That's the set I used in my '00 CU22 and now use in Black Bernie Marsden.

(Not going to call it my Black BM...would you?)

https://imgur.com/468IVxF

Great set and you can find them with 4 conductor cable.

I use the 59B as a neck pickup with the JB because it balances better with the high output of the JB.

And because Seymour uses his with a ROUGHCAST A5 magnet I replace the stock polished A5 with roughcast which rounds the sharp edges and warms the tone.

I also replace the magnet in the 59B with A4. Also ROUGHCAST. Makes the 59B sound like a DRAGON 1 neck pickup. Meaning a REAL paf from 1959.

 

[pr0ggg]

I have an PRS custom SE 24 and I was about to change the pair of pickups with a pair of Suhr's thornbuckers.
But it turned out that the width of my PRS pickups is way smaller than the thornbucker's, both neck and bridge.
I wonder if it happened to anyone here, or my prs is just a bad one...

Sorry for the late response.
It seems that my PRS is set with 48/50mm pair of PUs.

Edit: I was a dumbass and did not measure my pickups properly. It's actually 50/52mm (or 49.2/52 as the official site says) set.
The thornbucker set is 50/53mm so I think i'll sell them
So for budget reason (and also my kind of music), I think I'm gonna check out some cheap chinese high output pickups.
Does anyone have experience with them chinese pickups? (Counterpart/fake ones don't count)

 

[Sonic Blue 55]

My McCarty Gold Top came with Duncan designed P90s. I replaced them with
Harmonic Design.

Gibson Type Pickups Page

Since 1983 Harmonic Design USA has supplied over 14,000 replacement pickups to professional players and guitar makers all over the world

www.harmonicdesign.net

More articulate, smoother, better volume. I also have the Tele pickups and put Z 90s in my SG. I found the Throback Buckers too bright.
That being said, I put 3 Dimarzio Duper Distortion Humbuckers in my 2001 SE.
The cleanest sounding dual coils I have ever heard.