Anyhoos.
After a good long look at the schematics and several trial and errors with potentiometer values as well as capacitor size, I finally settled on 500K volume pots, 250K tone pots and 0.047mf and 0.022mf for neck and bridge tone caps respectively. These are all personal preferences of mine as I wanted full on brightness of the pickups and a more usable sweep on the tone knob.
Mine are the normal silver/chrome finished variety and both are identical. So neither are position specific. Do note that though they are humbucker-sized, these are actually considered singlecoils. And along with the "out-there" design, these aluminium-made pickups are also light.(hear that, EMG?)
Plugged in clean, they sing, jangle and chime in all the right places just like any self-respecting singlecoil would. But without the noise.
None.
Turn up the gain and this is where the Alumitone really flex their shiny muscles. The insane frequency response (namely the bass and mids)have more body and tighter than even EMGs and most Bareknuckles.
And yes, that means they do Djent.
And the string to string response is crazy good.
Which also means that they are unforgiving and mean if you muck up or play drunk during your set.
The only problem is matching the pickups to the right capacitors and pots for your ears. And since these pickups are quite transparent, your guitar wood also makes a difference here. So that would be the only possible setback here as the tone might lack a certain warmth with some woods.
So at the end of it all, take your time to listen to the various soundclips online with all the different tonewoods and setups before you finally give these puppies a try. Most often than not, you won't be regretting it due to the wide band response that suits almost all genres.
