Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: knifeinthemarathon on April 14, 2005, 12:03:22 PM
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Hi, this is my first post. I've been watching Bareknuckle pick-ups for a while now, and am hoping to get my guitar fitted with some soon.
My guitar is a bit of weird one, though: It's an ESP Stephen Carpenter signature model, which has a single coil in the neck, a humbucker in the middle and a humbucker in the bridge. I'm confident that the Nailbomb seems right for me for the brdige position, but I'm stumped as to what the middle and neck pick-ups should be.
I play quite heavy stuff (but not metal!) but also like to play clean stuff. The guitar also has a five way selector, so I'd need the other two pick-ups to give a consistant output.
The stock guitar was fitted with a generic ESP single-coil and middle humbucker and a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck in the bridge.
If you can help, I salute you. :wink:
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How about a calibrated nailbomb set - I'm sure Tim could make sure they all balance out, I'd go for a Trilogy in the neck to match the nailbomb volume.
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If you want to get a cleaner sound you could do Emerald/Mule/Irish Tour, again as a calibrated set. How old is the Duncan JB? If t is a new one, I find them pretty muddy, but I have a very old one (double creme*, no name and PAF style coils), which is sort of like the Emerald but without all the harmonic content!
Another option, but a totally different sound, night be Crawler, HB size P-90, Irish tour. I was going to put this in my PRS EG (with normal size P-90's), but went for 2 P-90's in the end. I love the combination, but it depends how much you use the middle humbucker and whether you want to get the P-90 sound instead.
But really the man to ask is Tim. He will go through the music and sounds you like, and then come up with the best combination.
Cheers
Phil