Have another thread discussing full size humbuckers. Now I'm thinking of keeping my american standard in a S/S/S setup. I'm looking to achieve good tone for Classic Rock, Hard Rock and some Metal.

Any feedback on the following pups??

Seymour Duncan - Hot Rails
or
Seymour Duncan - Lil Screamin Deamon
or
Dimarzio - Fast Track 2
or
DImarzio - Tone Zone

The only one I have exp with is the hot rails. They are good for rock. I don,t know about metal since I don,t play metal. Get good VH sound out of them.

I tried Seymour JB's and found them a bit bland. Thats about the limit of my experience with JB's. Dimarzio fasttrack and tonezone i have plenty of experience with. The fasttrack is better if you play alot of metal and some rock, the tonezone alot of rock and some metal. If you want a classic humbuckered rock sound then look to the dimarzio PAF, arguably the humbucker all others wish they were.
Another great aspect of dimarzio pickups is that when they produce a singlecoil version of one of their humbuckers they dont just go for the same number readout. They will work the pickup to get the same tone as its fullsize counterpart.

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I've used Duncan JB's and Hot Rails for years and love them. I have one guitar that has a HR in the neck position and an F spaced DiMarzio Evolution (full sized hb) in the bridge and it's a great combo!

A project I'm working on now has a HR at the neck and a Fast Track at the bridge...also a good combo.

I don't play metal, more hard/classic rock but the above combos work perfectly in that situation.

Dude, you should look at the dimarzio YJMs there Yngwie Malmsteen's pickups. They're stacked to sound like a humbucker but have single coil tone.