Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: hunter on November 22, 2009, 10:40:31 AM
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Oh Yeah!
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Added a clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnERleA2DuE
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I predict it won't stay there long! :P
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Clips please Hunter!
Why do you predict that Philly?
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Hunter's not that much of a metalhead, I reckon soon he'll be hankering for some subtlety. He was talking about putting Mules in it less than a week ago.
Of course now he can keep the MM just to prove me wrong. :lol:
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That sounds like a challenge - let's have a sweepstake!
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Lol, well I wasn't THAT happy with the RYs, and I was just having a giggles today, changed bridge to MM with retuning in <10 minutes, quite cool!
But to my surprise I really dig it. Fat and it plays itself, pinches jumping off in spades. We'll see. Clips not today, but will try soon.
Cheerio
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Fat and it plays itself, pinches jumping off in spades.
I must admit there are times when I wish I had a guitar with a pickup like that, so I do know where you're coming from. I remember an old Guitar Player review of an EMG where they said "notes gush out like water from a firehose" :lol: . But whenever I tried high-output pickups in the past, I always tired of them quite quickly.
(Of course I'd like all my guitars to play themselves. That'd be great. :) )
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A miracle Man in a Les Paul or PRS has a lot more versatility than you'd think .
I have one in mine and I love it to death and I swapped out a mule to put it in and the contrast wasn't so night and day as the mule has a fair old kick to it as well
It's not too crisp sounding as some might fear - it's a fat sounding pickup and it's great for Classic 80s rock and will do a bit of metal too.
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Made a quick clip this afternoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnERleA2DuE
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The clip is now fixed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnERleA2DuE
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A miracle Man in a Les Paul or PRS has a lot more versatility than you'd think .
I have one in mine and I love it to death and I swapped out a mule to put it in and the contrast wasn't so night and day as the mule has a fair old kick to it as well
It's not too crisp sounding as some might fear - it's a fat sounding pickup and it's great for Classic 80s rock and will do a bit of metal too.
Jonathan, with my 1 day of experience, I can second that. It's much more versatile than one might think.
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I was surprised how fat it sounds on the clip - I was expecting piercing treble, to be honest.
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Great clip to demo the MM. Just shows off the smooth mid character exactly as it is
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I was surprised how fat it sounds on the clip - I was expecting piercing treble, to be honest.
It's not like that. It's thick and tight, with great string separation and sustain.
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Nice clip - a really good representation of what the Miracle Man can do.
I agree that "thick and tight" is a good description of the MM. "Smooth" is the word that springs to mind for me when I play it but as Hunter says, pinches really jump out. Hitting pinches is mainly about technique - getting your thumb bang on the harmonic node - but somehow they feel easier when there's a MM bridge pickup in the guitar.
The only downside to the MM for me is that I don't really like its clean sound, but as Tim says the Miracle Man "is a weapon of war" :lol:
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Hitting pinches is mainly about technique - getting your thumb bang on the harmonic node - but somehow they feel easier when there's a MM bridge pickup in the guitar.
Absolutely, it is technique (one of the very few things I can actually do on guitar, sometimes :lol: ). But they definitely come more easily with some pickups than others.
So, I quite like the MM sound. Not saying I'll be buying one, but it's cool.
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Just for giggles, showing off some MM squeals/pinches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWs47499w3E
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Sounds really good to my ears! - didn't expect that sound from a MM in a McCarty
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Sounds really good to my ears! - didn't expect that sound from a MM in a McCarty
Neither did I really. In fact it sounds really organic and fat, I was expecting it to me more brash and agressive, but it isn't at all. Just amazing fat crunch in there ...