Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: dheim on June 07, 2009, 07:14:39 PM
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just a classic - completely useless - forum debate.
it's aimed at multiple guitars owners or at who had the chance to own or try many BKP models and had to make a single choice...
in this years i collected a pretty nice and wide range of guitars and pickups... but what pickup (or set) set would i choose if i had to keep just one?
it's quite hard to choose but i'd say nailbombs. definitely... (the only ones i'm quite sure i wouldn't choose are holy divers and miracle men... not because i don't like them but because i find them quite "limited" for my tonal needs)
and you?
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(the only ones i'm quite sure i wouldn't choose are holy divers and miracle men... not because i don't like them but because i find them quite "limited" for my tonal needs)
That's interesting, since I've found the HD to be the opposite, but that's largely due to the coil split. I've always wanted a bridge nailbomb, but if I had to choose from what I already have, I'd pick a HD bridge and MQ middle, or just the overwound queen with a coil tap.
How's the MM limited?
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Holy Divers are my favourite BKPs.
But to be honest if I only had one guitar it wouldn't have BKPs in it. I think it's just fine as it is.......... ;)
(http://www.doppelganger-rock.com/Twinfan/Eagle.JPG)
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For me if I could have only one it would have Yardbirds in it. I suspect I would miss Humbucklers but the tele with Yardbirds seems to be the axe that I keep picking up a large proportion of the time.
Lets hope that grey day of one guitar never comes! :shock:
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(the only ones i'm quite sure i wouldn't choose are holy divers and miracle men... not because i don't like them but because i find them quite "limited" for my tonal needs)
That's interesting, since I've found the HD to be the opposite, but that's largely due to the coil split. I've always wanted a bridge nailbomb, but if I had to choose from what I already have, I'd pick a HD bridge and MQ middle, or just the overwound queen with a coil tap.
How's the MM limited?
i'm not saying it's objectively limited... just it does MY things worse than other pickups. i'm mostly a lead guitarist, and for lead i don't mean shredding but the kind of melodic playing you usually have in gothic music... for that kind of things i prefer a smoother and middier pickup like the nailbomb.
of course MMs kick ass for thrashy rhythms, but it's not what i play most of the time!
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i DO only have one guitar :( (well the others are real cheap...)
gibson lp menace and soon to have a mm bridge and possibly a nb neck (shock horror but its what tim advised ;) ).....
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Not having tried every set I am not able to say but I favour single coils and Strats...so a Strat with Apaches-an arrangement that I am more than happy with.
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my Les Paul with the Abraxas set - similar to the Mules I love so much, but with just enough extra juice on the bridge pickup while retaining the same kind of tone.
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Prolly Cold Sweats as long as they fit the guitar.
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haven't tried enough to say... i've only got the MM/CS set, and for the wide range of stuff I play, it's not really versatile enough. Not a complaint, they work well for what i wanted, but i got that set in my legra because I knew I didn't only have one guitar, kind of thing. :)
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Prolly Cold Sweats as long as they fit the guitar.
+1 Les paul, With Cold Sweats is my choice.
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Mules. Obviously! :lol:
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Probably I'd chose my Amber LIon with Miracle Man bridge and Mule neck
might be tempted to swap the Mule to a Cold Sweat Neck or a Mississippi Queen
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/felineguitars/CUSTOM%20BUILT/bonesfront.jpg)
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its not necessarily my 'number one' (actually my number two), but if i can just have one guitar it has to be my white steinberger GP:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/3527939085_a02cb8b111.jpg)
it has a miracle man set, which is my 2nd favourite bkp set.
the mule is my favourite bkp set, and my '84 "johnny winter" flying V is rapidly becoming my 'number one'
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REBEL YELL/LP STANDARD!!!!!!!!!
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that would be a gibson les paul custom with a cold sweat set :D
not no original custom yet :(
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My favourite BKPs (of the ones I've owned so far) are the Cold Sweats.
But if I could only keep one guitar, it wouldn't be the one they're currently in. Might have to get something custom.
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Jazz box / Archtop + B.K.P. 'Manhattans' = sorted ... 8)
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I'm tempted to say my Pig 90/MQs but maybe with a slightly hotter MQ neck so that the gain level is about the same as the bridge.
Mules are good (and versatile) but I think I prefer the p90s now. Plus they're just as versatile.
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Ho hum...
I'm a strat kinda guy, so if I was only allowed one guitar... purely on the look and feel of the thing, it would have to be me strat...
But, if I was being sensible, practical, etc... (and this, therefore, is my choice in this hypothetical scenario/thread :lol:)
Them Yardbirds in my 60s style Fender Japan Custom Tele.
She do it all and she so easy to play... :D recently all the recordings I've been working on, I pick up other guitars, try them out, record takes... and eventually I reach for the black tele (Iris), to see what she does... and it turns out she's the one, yet again... :roll:
(but, if I ever do reach that tear-jerking day when I must walk out of here with one guitar only, it would probably be the strat (Edith) and it would matter not wot BKPs were in her at the time...)
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that would be a gibson les paul custom with a cold sweat set :D
not no original custom yet :(
I think that would be my choice too, but not quite sure.
I would really like to get a good bit of play time on a RY set in LP standard and twiddle with heights etc
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Easy!!!
My new Tele, NB/MQ!!
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If I only had one guitar I'd have to buy a few more! However if I'm answering this seriously it would be a toss up between an Emerald equiped Les Paul Custom and a 62 Strat with A5 Apaches. Tough choice, bit overall I think the Strat is more versatile.
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My legra, PK'd.
The best for the metal style I need it for and good enough for cleans etc.
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Patrick Eggle Berlin 22HT with Nailbombs.
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My Gibson '76 Custom 3pu with maple neck, Mule Neck, MQ or SM(4con, AIII) middle and VHII bridge.
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CWP