Ive owned my Schecter Omen-4 for about a year now and I always played on the bridge pickup. However, recently Ive tried and switch to the neck or blend the two but this always pushes a huge amount of gain to the point where it distorts my amp. I know its not my amp as I play with a 500 watt GK with plenty of headroom. Cutting the gain on the amp doesn't help either, its always a distorted mess. (Passive pickups with active electronics for those that are wondering) Is this a pickup issue? An electronics issue? Even if I have to take this to a luthier I'd like to know what I have to address.
Might be a pickup adjustment issue. You could turn the screws to move the pickup a little farther from the strings and see what happens. Just count the turns and if you don't like the result, you can set it back where it was.
Just a tip if you have allen poles on a pickup and decide to adjust em. Stick the long shaft in the pickup and look at where the short leg is pointing. Think of one turn as a clock of sixty minutes. Adjust in "minutes", so if you turn 5 minutes on each, "where" wrench points doesn't matter. Five minutes is five minutes no matter where it points when you stick it in... Still same relative balance. Just a tip. I've had some come in my shop where folks have dicked up the pole balance, dicking up string balance in output... You can extrapolate from above for screws too...