Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Adam.M on April 04, 2008, 11:42:33 PM
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Well i finally got around to getting off my arse today and fitting getting rid of the single coils and doing what i had intended all along for this strat.
I'm so, so happy that i did! i don't know if its my ears playing tricks on me, but i can get better harmonics out of this thing, sustain is improved somewhat, tone in general is clearer... feels more immediate and responsive... seems louder and clearer acoustically too. theres more going on than i expected.
I never like using the neck pickup so, i'm glad it's gone!
The only bad thing is that this is a cheap and nasty pick-up, sounds okay clean but... yeah, no where near BKP! so now starts the long long process of making the choice of which BKP to put in there... i was thinking VH2 but maybe that'd be a bit bright... Holy Diver maybe? oh dear...
Anyway, cr@ppy pic time! :D
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Beauty!
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Depends what gear you use and what you like :].
Why not have something different? I never thought I'd be getting Holy Diver's for my PGM :lol:
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Some guy showed here a sample of him playing with a strat w/ VHII!
Sounded massive, but he told he uses .012 string gauge and Drop D tunning!
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That's a stunner Adam! I guess you won't be selling it now then? I think you made the right choice and definitely worth the effort as that is a beauty :D Love the maple neck and black pickguard.
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That's a stunner Adam! I guess you won't be selling it now then? I think you made the right choice and definitely worth the effort as that is a beauty :D Love the maple neck and black pickguard.
Yeah she's a keeper now for sure! i love the simplicity, when i have options im constantly trying them out and trying to use all the options possible... now all i have is volume, no more messing around with a neck pickup ;)
Gotta love black and maple... it just works. a bit 80's maybe, but i don't care!
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wahey for the single hum strat!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/maliciousteve/Picture3027.jpg)
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Some guy showed here a sample of him playing with a strat w/ VHII!
Sounded massive, but he told he uses .012 string gauge and Drop D tunning!
I think it was Twilight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAo1zhkJiU
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Some guy showed here a sample of him playing with a strat w/ VHII!
Sounded massive, but he told he uses .012 string gauge and Drop D tunning!
I think it was Twilight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAo1zhkJiU
That's certainly not Drop D. I doubt he uses .012 gauge strings.
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Some guy showed here a sample of him playing with a strat w/ VHII!
Sounded massive, but he told he uses .012 string gauge and Drop D tunning!
I think it was Twilight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAo1zhkJiU
That's certainly not Drop D. I doubt he uses .012 gauge strings.
.012 gauge strings would give a thicker tone ala SRV
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Here:
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10378&highlight=vhii+012
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But looks like he took out the song I said from his MySpace...
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Dr Feelboobs is the song
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Some guy showed here a sample of him playing with a strat w/ VHII!
Sounded massive, but he told he uses .012 string gauge and Drop D tunning!
I think it was Twilight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAo1zhkJiU
That's certainly not Drop D. I doubt he uses .012 gauge strings.
TO uses DR Pure Blues 10-46 and doesn't use drop D tuning. I can safely say this as I have set up all his guitars and will be putting his new one together shortly.
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Holydiiiiivah! Perfect in strats, thick and juicy. You wont miss the neck pickup if you have a thick enough bridge, so HD all the way.
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yeah twilight has a HD strat i think! That black on black with maple fretboard looks ACE!
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Here:
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10378&highlight=vhii+012
Oh god those tracks sound awesome. I think I need a single humbucker strat in all black/maple :D
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Here:
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10378&highlight=vhii+012
Oh god those tracks sound awesome. I think I need a single humbucker strat in all black/maple :D
You can have mine for 200 notes ;) muahaha.
Hooray for lack of financial instability! *sigh*
If i keep this it's definately getting a Holy Diver. Even acoustically the character of the guitar has changed quite a lot, all in a good way. It's really really resonant and more immediate sounding, sustain is improved and i'm loving just playing this thing unplugged!
It's a shame the only humbucker i had lieing around was the worst pickup i've ever had! it does sound alright clean though... which suprised me a tad.
Maybe i should re-wind the humbucker... hmm!
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yeah twilight has a HD strat i think! That black on black with maple fretboard looks ACE!
No he doesn't, he put up a video using my HD after we were at LGS a couple of years ago and he came back to the States first. That pickup is now in a superstrat with 2 Trilogy Suites.