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Pickups / Re: Another Pickup Suggestion Thread

« Last post by alex.pinheiro.soares on April 22, 2025, 08:40:35 PM »

Thanks for the reply!

I was almost sure to go with The Mules, but know i am fearing they will be to bright! The Black Dogs/Emeralds i fear they will be to "aggressive", and i really need something that reacts great to volume knob and picking dynamics to switch between overdrive and clean!

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Pickups / Re: Nomad compared to flat 50 bridge

« Last post by cuttingEdge on April 20, 2025, 07:26:48 AM »

the Diezels are kind of odd/different. they have a lot of bass pre distortion, and if the guitar PU combo is too fat, it get's crazy fuzzy. just horrible. Had this with the Boss.

Anyway, the flat50 bridge is great! beautiful string separation and great clear fast and cutting attack. makes for a defined clipping, not the bloated mess i get with some other PUs. and all this without thin sounding!

I have it in a bright Ash/maple tele. So for now it's hard too tell for me how much is the PU and how much is the guitar, but i had the boss in this one too, and even in this the Boss was too full for my setup. i have a accoustically very full sounding Ash/maple tele, too. sounds good unplugged, but i haven't found a good PU for it yet.
The flat 50 sounds great where it is, but i will move it at one point, because i hope it will save this guitar.

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Pickups / Re: Something between a Mule and a Rebel Yell

« Last post by ericsabbath on April 19, 2025, 01:06:58 PM »

Abraxas?
In my experience the Black Dog sounds nothing like the Mule nor Rebel Yell

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Pickups / Re: Another Pickup Suggestion Thread

« Last post by b.gandt on April 18, 2025, 08:05:33 PM »

Good god, I need to edit better…

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Pickups / Re: Nomad compared to flat 50 bridge

« Last post by b.gandt on April 18, 2025, 07:59:21 PM »

Fair enough.  I’m actually considering a flat 50 in a Tele that I picked up since our last posts!

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Pickups / Re: Something between a Mule and a Rebel Yell

« Last post by timmy_pix on April 17, 2025, 09:47:57 AM »

I'd say this is the Black Dog to a T.  Smoother top end, mids that feel very much like the Mules' but more so, not quite as upper-mid focused as the Rebel Yell.

Definitely not the Emerald; the bridge is much tamer in the mids than even the Mule. Its thing is harmonic richness and low-end control, and if you don't like the presence/high end on the Mule, that's still very much part of the Emerald's character.

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Pickups / Re: Polymath

« Last post by yellow eyez on April 16, 2025, 07:39:30 PM »

My polymaths were shipped and should be installed soon

Can’t wait to try these out as they are “custom Polymaths” wired specifically for a specific, special, singular luthier in USA

This is going to be epic

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Pickups / Re: Pickup recommendation for Schecter E-1

« Last post by shalev98732 on April 16, 2025, 01:49:50 PM »

Hi everyone,
TLDR; I want a pickup with as much output and clarity as possible.

I'm looking for a guitar pickup upgrade on my Schecter E-1 FR S.
I'll be pretty much exclusively playing powermetal / metalcore on it. So its either full gain sounds or clean, nothing in between.

I want some defined lows, the less muddy the better. No scooped mids and lots of clarity in the high end.
I either play with an OD-1 through a mesa boogie dual rectifier or 5150 through a Celestion V30 speaker.
Ocasionally I'm playing clean aswell.
So far I think the Polymath is the best fit for me, but I don't want to miss out on other good options.
Which pickup do you think is a good fit for me?

Thanks in advance for any tips!

sounds like a bkp painkiller would do the job, or bkp unity (basically a ceramic polymath

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Pickups / Re: Something between a Mule and a Rebel Yell

« Last post by shalev98732 on April 16, 2025, 01:48:07 PM »

I have two guitars one with a Mule (strat style) and one with a Rebel Yell ( Music man Axis style), for an other guitar I'm looking for a pickup set that sits between the two. The mule has a little two much top end that can take your head off, the Rebel Yell not quite enough and can sound a little muddy (although great for high gain 80s power chords).
Any recommendations

maybe the bkp emerald?

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Pickups / Re: Another Pickup Suggestion Thread

« Last post by shalev98732 on April 16, 2025, 01:46:44 PM »

Hello everyone!
I am looking for some objective recommendation (within each one personal appreciation) of pickup set for a Charvel Pro Mod Rel.
The guitar comes from factory with Seymour Duncan® JB™ TB-4 on bridge and Seymour Duncan® '59™ SH-1N on neck.

I basically play original (band) songs that flows from 60s rock through 70's Led Zeppelin/Wolfmother to 80/90s (somewhere around Guns N Roses, Motley Crue etc), of course not even near in terms of quality.

I am using a Marshall SH20 (20 Watts plexy) and i play a lot with guitar volume to get clean tones from it (either using a tele with Seymour duncan quarter pound and/or Strat with BK Irish Tour)!

So you may ask, why change pickups on the Charvel, i love the neck and the playability, and i was looking for some pickups that would react better to volume and would be able to get some decent cleans and dynamics (the JB is quite harsh/aggresive some times). I have to do some "intros" wich are heavy on delay/reverb effects and these pickups don't deal really well with it (in my opinion/ignorance).

So. should i drink a glass of water and wait for GAS to disapear or any of the below would fit my purposes and why:
- BK Mules
- BK Rebel Yell
- BK PolyPaf

I also have some Suhr Thronebucker set, but on an Ibanez FR1720 i had they lacked "character", too much HiFi for my taste!

Thanks for reading this!

Best Regards

rebel yell would bne too bright for that guitar, i recommend trying a holydiver bridge and emerald neck, it would do the job for you and the emerald has such good clerans but also handles distortion very well