Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: nicolaimog on September 23, 2005, 09:21:19 PM
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Hey guys, i need some new pickups and ive had many recommendations to try Bare knuckle pickups.
I want to change my pickups in my newly bought Ibanez RG 1570.
I play mostly metal, shred and progressive rock.
My favorite bands are:
Dream Theater
Pantera
Metallica
Jason Becker
Steve Vai
Yngwie Malmsteen
and so on........
That means that my pickups should be very versatile.....
The bridge pickup should sound very nice in distortion, but at the same time cut through while playing lead.
My neck pickup should be my shred and clean pickup, so it has to be a bright pickup.
Do you guys think i should change the singlecoil too???
Is it even possible to cover John Petrucci´s sounds in two pickups?
(John Petrucci=Dream Theater=my favorite band)
sorry for bad spelling mistakes...
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Welcome to the forum. You're looking for a H/S/H set?
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well... my guitars has H/S/H if thats what you mean?
Im just wondering if its possible to mix different bare knuckle pickups such as a nailbomb in bridge and a holydiver for neck pickup(just an example...)?
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I think you should probably get a matched bridge and neck HB set, and then a comparable middle pup.
The Miracle Man can definitely pull of the articulate, progressive side of metal, and still retain your own 'sound'. :)
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cool.
But will the neck miracle man sound good when playing clean, and what about shred?
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The MM has sounds great clean with a touch of compression on there ... nice and chimey! For distorted metal, it's perfect, the best metal pickup I've ever used.
The neck MM uses an alnico magnet, while the bridge uses ceramic ... it will definitely be able to handle both heavy soloing as well as clean work.
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What about a Nailbomb set with Triolgy in the single coil poisition. I think that is what Hayden has in his Ibanez. I am sure he will be around soon to let you know. Not having any H/S/H guitars, I'm only making some suggestions based on my pickups.
The MM set is great though I don't know what single coil I would use with it, probably the Trilogy again.
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ok. Thank you very much. Will have a closer look at the Miracle Man then (:
Any other pickup recommandations?
(And the nailbomb, and trilogy)
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Phil, you don't have an H/S/H guitar?! You're a disgrace! You will now give me 10% of your guitar collection in pennitence!
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I would go with Phil on this one and say the Nailbomb HSH set. They sound great in Ibanez RG's. Check out some of the clips in the player’s room. The BKP one and the ones posted by Lepermessa are both Nailbomb equipped RG's. It’s a very versatile pickup, you can play some serious metal with it, but it also has fantastic cleans and a cutting lead tone.
Welcome to the forum!
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With all due respect, I think that the Nailbomb is a bit of kneejerk, go-to reaction to most people on this forum ... since at least 1/2 of the guitarists you mentioned play with either EMG pickups or through really high gain rigs/blade pickups/high output HBs, I have found that the Miracle Man comes closer to approximating that kind of tone than an alnico bridge pickup ... just my 2 cents; I'll go back to my corner now! :lol:
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Phil, you don't have an H/S/H guitar?! You're a disgrace! You will now give me 10% of your guitar collection in pennitence!
Actually I do have 1, but it is a mini-Mule humbucker in the neck and now sports a Mississippi Queen in the bridge and a Slowhand for the single coil.
I guess I get to keep the guitars :twisted:
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I am still trying to figure out Mr Pig's Dante reference.
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Phil, you don't have an H/S/H guitar?! You're a disgrace! You will now give me 10% of your guitar collection in pennitence!
Actually I do have 1, but it is a mini-Mule humbucker in the neck and now sports a Mississippi Queen in the bridge and a Slowhand for the single coil.
I guess I get to keep the guitars :twisted:
Curse you, Red Baron!!! LOL
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I am still trying to figure out Mr Pig's Dante reference.
abandon all hope, you who enter here
(Steve told me, I thought it was just bad Italian :oops: )
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Have you ever played a Nailbomb Ben?
It’s a popular choice because it is so versatile, It can sound as heavy as S**t if you want it to.
If some one said I want a Dimebag kind of tone, then yes I would suggest a Miracle man, but because of the wide range of tones and players they are looking for I thought it would be best to go with a more versatile pickup choice.
Alnico powered pickups can still get that tone... Tim gets a Zakk tone from an alnico IV Mule, one of our lowest out put pickups.
Again if some one asks for a passive equivalent to an EMG I would suggest a Warpig, which is again alnico V.
38th: Phil’s right with the translation. Brilliant book, well worth a read!
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yeah, very uplifting stuff.
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Dante's Inferno- the gates of Hell yeah? It has been bugging me for days- I knew I knew it from somewhere
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Hi and welcome to the forum :D sorry I'm a little late chimming in on this one :roll:
A great all round HSH set that'll handle driven metal tone, saturated shredding tone and still have a nice clean tone would be a Nailbomb HSH which features either a Trilogy suite middle if you require alot of gain from all 3 or something like an Irish Tour if you'd like to mix in some true vintage tone. The light basswood bodies on the Ibanez guitars really lend themselves to fatter toned pickups as they help to balance out the guitar tonally.The BKP Nailbomb demo was done on an RG550 which will give you a good idea.
The other alternatives as a Miracle Man HSH which will have a great tight and fast bass response and very smooth, almost scooped mid feel, or a Warpig set.Warpigs are awesome for shredding as there's so much gain on tap they make playing almost effortless, they also have a surprisingly good clean tone due to the Alnico V magnets and also split down well too.
Have a good listen to all the various clips that myself and all the other forum members have posted and see if you find anything that catches you ear.
If you need anymore help email or PM me direct and I'll do my best to get you sorted out :)
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Thank you so much guys.....
Ive heard alot of the sound clips and my current favorites are the Miracle man or the Nailbombs. I mean both sound fantastic!!
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Well...I like my Nailbombs in my RG, they hav a more aggressive mid than the miracle man in the bridge, so I may suggest going for a Nailbomb neck/trilogy/Miracle Man bridge.
The neck Nailbomb humbucker has quite an open sound - sounds great on Malmsteen/Becker type neck runs, but the Miracle Man bridge offers a tighter bass, but less mids. If you want mids go for a Nailbomb set.
The Nailbombs sound better clean than the Miracle Man pups!