Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: the prince of shred on April 29, 2009, 10:36:09 PM
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thinking of getting a squire classic vibe , just wondering what pickups would do.... radiohead like clean tones.... warm articulate yet mellow.... with clear note deffinition when playing chords red hot chillis etc....... but then with a bridge that can also handle the dirty distorted tones of radiohead, placebo, bloc party etc, with a fair bit of bite...?
its ma first tele if i bite the bullet so yh...???? piledrivers??
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Buy one, enjoy it stock, then come back if you want to change the pickups and ask again ;)
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I agree with Twinfan - I always give a new guitar a go with it's existing pups for while to see how it's going to work for me (except when I bought a guitar to put a specific set of BKPs in that I had already! That one lasted 30mins after I got it home :lol:)
However, when you've done that... I think you might be talking about Yardbirds.
They're sweet, articulate and mellow, and then when you push it, the bridge handles rock tone extremely well, cutting through a mix nicely (the neck's usable for this as well, much more so than most tele necks seem to be). I've found them to be very good for layering guitar parts, where my favourite tele pups (Blackguard Flat 50s) wouldn't have worked quite so well...
By the way, my Yardbirds are in an alder bodied, rosewood fingerboard tele - not sure how they would differ in the maple boarded CV? But from memory (I tried a few when they first came out) I think the CV pups are aiming at the same sort of tele character that the Yardbirds are.
Hope that helps :D
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Hi,
I got mine on a maple boarded tele and they sound great. Mellow vintage tone. My favourite bare knuckle pickup by a country mile.
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why not asking Roo ??!! :mrgreen:
:gib:
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AHAHHA shall i pm him :lol: ?
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YES, please
:haha:
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ok heres my pm..... ill post the reponse ;)
hey roo,
im thinking of acquiring a beatifull squire classic vibe tele for those br00talz ...
i really need advice on a set of pickups for it...
i need a warm, mellow and articulated clean sound (think red hot chillis, radiohead, bloc party etc.)
but then a want a bridge to handle a nice distorted yet clear and crisp tones like placebo , radiohead, etc distorted tones, (solo bit on my iron lung by RH kinda thing..) nice n biting...
what do you suggest?
sorry for pming u but i just love ur wezv baritone tones, and the guys insisted u were the person to call ...
thanks
jake
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dammit !
you really have done that ?
PDT_038
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well...what the hell :P
im sure he can take a bit of banter :lol:
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My response was:
'LOL'
Good luck with trying to stay straight-looking when you're playing that fetid piece of sh*t.
Roo
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To clarify: my response was just
'LOL'
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People who protest as much as Roo does about the Tele obviously has a repressed desire to own one, secretly he admires and envys the Tele owners. He wants one so bad it hurts, sometimes he crys coz he just doesn't have the guts to come out and say --
"I AM ROOBUBBA AND THIS IS MY TELECASTER I LOVE IT"
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Good luck with trying to stay straight-looking when you're playing that fetid piece of sh*t.
Is apparent heterosexuality an important aspect of guitar playing then?
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thinking of getting a squire classic vibe , just wondering what pickups would do.... radiohead like clean tones.... warm articulate yet mellow.... with clear note deffinition when playing chords red hot chillis etc....... but then with a bridge that can also handle the dirty distorted tones of radiohead, placebo, bloc party etc, with a fair bit of bite...?
its ma first tele if i bite the bullet so yh...???? piledrivers??
maybe this set is a little too heavy for a telecaster, but I always recommend piledrivers, the bridge does the job, teh neck does the job, it just does the job. Besides Johnny Greenwood was much more of a "rock" guitarist back in Radiohead's early days so that extra thump from the bridge pickup is always nice, and the neck cleans are gorgeous, add a bit of analog delay and your gonna get a radiohead vibe for sure.
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"This is my Tele. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My Tele is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it, as I must master my life. Without me, my Tele is useless. Without my Tele, I am useless. I must play my Tele true. I must play straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must play him before he plays me. I will. Before God I swear this creed. My Tele and myself are defenders of my music. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it....until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen."
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LOL
What's going on with this tele mania on these boards...
Did someone cast a spell ?
who knows...
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