Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: yellowv on December 25, 2008, 12:13:27 AM
-
Well I just ordered a new BKP today. The guitar is a Caparison Horus. It has mahogany body, bolt on maple neck with rosewood board. It is 24.75" scale with 27 frets. Basically I wanted the most brutal pickup money could buy. I wanted super big and tight lows, grinding mids and great highs without being too trebly or harsh. Also wanted crazy squealing harmonics. Well I went with a ceramic Warpig with battle worn black cover. Did I choose right? Here is a pic of the patient.
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d29/yellowv/333.jpg)
-
Odd way round to do things, but I doubt you'll be unhappy with your choice.
-
Odd way round to do things, but I doubt you'll be unhappy with your choice.
Yeah, well I already got a lot of advice from Nick (Zimbloth) on it. I just wanted to get the thoughts of the BKP heads.
-
i would imagine a miracle man would be what you were looking for.
-
Yeah, well I already got a lot of advice from Nick (Zimbloth) on it. I just wanted to get the thoughts of the BKP heads.
Ah, well Nick knows his stuff. Should definitely be brutal! Now you just need a sinner to go in the neck.
-
As far as the Miracle Man goes, I like it, but I think it is a little too EMG 81ish for my tastes. As for the neck pickup I absolutely love the Fast Track 2 I have in there. It is warm, fat and smooth. I love it's lead tone and am not a big fan of true single coils as awesome as the sinner is. It will be staying until Tim comes up with a single coil sized bucker.
-
Those Horus' are badass...
I recently got an open-coil C-pig for my Ibanez S540 tuned to C standard, mahogany body w/ flame maple top and back... Took me a while to fine-tune a good sound out of it but once you get it, it's simply amazing. Clear, aggressive and tight lows - not boomy at all.
Reg
-
It will be staying until Tim comes up with a single coil sized bucker.
You may be waiting a long long time :lol:
-
amp(s)??? these determine soooo much, IMO.....My Mark series Boogies are high gain in a Metalllica/Petrucci way, but I find a mid output pup works best-allows the amp to really shine/allows you to dime in the amp's tone-retain attack-the pup is but part of the quest-good luck on yours!!!
-
It will be staying until Tim comes up with a single coil sized bucker.
Piledriver :)
-
It will be staying until Tim comes up with a single coil sized bucker.
Piledriver :)
The Sinner and Triogy single coils are really hot neck pickups that will rival any humbucker - The Sinner especially would match well with the C-Pig.
-
is the sinner/trilogy single coil hum canceling?
-
when the pig arrives can you post a photo of it? i'm very curious to see the battle worn black cover...
-
is the sinner/trilogy single coil hum canceling?
No, they're both "real" single-coils. As pointed out elsewhere BKP don't make a single-coil sized humbucker.
FWIW I don't get this obsession with hum cancelling SCs (not that I'm accusing vejiita of obsession, just that this subject comes up a lot :)). They compromise single coil tone to solve what is basically a non-problem.
I'm not denying that 60-cycle hum exists - of course it does & yes, you can hear it. But unless you use absolutely bucketloads of gain & volume, have an amp that's already noisy, cr@ppy cables, no noisegate & dimmer switches in your house, then it's fairly unobtrusive once you start playing. If you want to do neck solos over mega gain, a single coil of any model probably isn't the best choice anyway.
In other words, the sort of applications where you need hum-cancelling would be better served with a proper humbucker anyway, not for the hum-cancelling itself, but for the tone. A stacked/rails SC-sized 'bucker does neither SC sound as well as an SC nor 'bucker sound as well as a proper 'bucker.
JHMO YMMV etc...
-
I suggested the Sinner as a match to your Warpig as I think they'll compliment each-other. Once you hear the Warpig, your hum-cancelling neck SC will sound flat in comparison.
The small amount of hum from single coils has never bothered me, I really don't see how people get hung up on it.
-
i would imagine a miracle man would be what you were looking for.
the CWP is quite a bit sicker in pretty much everything.. chug factor, squeeling harmonics, a much more prominent midrange.. it's freaking brutal!
you won't be dissapointed
-
when the pig arrives can you post a photo of it? i'm very curious to see the battle worn black cover...
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=586.0
-
Yeah I think I will be very happy with it. I will definately post pics when I get it and when I get it in the guitar. It was ordered the other day, but will probably take a few weeks to come in. As for the Sinner it is an awesome single coil, but that is exactly the problem. I don't want a true single coil. IMO the lead tone from my FT-2 is as good as any neck bucker I have heard (well non BKP that is). I prefer it over an Air Norton, which I love so i am quite happy with it. It has a ton of output for a single coil and is very fat, warm, smooth and round sounding. A very nice change of pace from the brutality the C-Pig will have. When Tim comes out with a single coil sized Cold Sweat the FT-2 goes :)
-
maybe you can ask for a rewind?