Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: pureoverdrive on January 11, 2010, 06:19:07 PM
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Hey there, Im thinking bout trying a bare knuckles in the bridge of an explorer. Want something thats clear under high gain and has great harmonics without being hash, and great bottom end response for drop d'ing, also need a twangy sound when split as i play a lot of funk... what u recommend?
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depends how you want your mids to go
Its either PK (lots) or MM (not lots)
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depends how you want your mids to go
Which one sounds twangyer split, and which one cleans up better?
Its either PK (lots) or MM (not lots)
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Hey there, Im thinking bout trying a bare knuckles in the bridge of an explorer. Want something thats clear under high gain and has great harmonics without being hash, and great bottom end response for drop d'ing, also need a twangy sound when split as i play a lot of funk... what u recommend?
depends on your concepts of what "great" is
all BKPs are clear under high gain, most pickups are twangy when split, "great" bottom end doesn't say a lot
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depends how you want your mids to go
Its either PK (lots) or MM (not lots)
Which one sounds twangyer split, and which one cleans up better?
Hello & welcome to the forum.
IMHO the PK has a far nicer clean sound than the MM. Can't comment on the split sound as I never use a split bridge so I've never wired up either of these pickups for it in my guitars...
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Painkiller indeed has much nicers cleans than Miracle Man. Wouldn't be my first choice for funk though.
Would say A5 Mules here. Perhaps Riff Raffs or Warpigs might be other options - warpigs sound very good split
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MM split & clean is close to my idea of hell. Sort of. :D
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what about rebell yell, crawler and nailbomb?
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you have a mahogany pointer guitar, which usually means high output pickups, or low output ones. the middle ground can work, but you risk it sounding muddy.
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you have a mahogany pointer guitar, which usually means high output pickups, or low output ones. the middle ground can work, but you risk it sounding muddy.
its alder, and why the hell would a mahogany guitar with medium output pickups sound muddy?
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you have a mahogany pointer guitar, which usually means high output pickups, or low output ones. the middle ground can work, but you risk it sounding muddy.
its alder, and why the hell would a mahogany guitar with medium output pickups sound muddy?
According to Tim Mills, a pure mahogany guitar usually works with lower output pickups to really show the wood tone, or higher output to cut through the timber. Somewhere in the middle it often gets lost. It can work of course, as each guitar is an individual.
However, my first thought would be the Painkiller. Downtuning+alder+clear. Anyway, it also greatly depends on the acoustic response of the guitar. Any target/reference tones? That would narrow it down too.
Btw, keeping the tone (pun not intended) polite goes a long way. This is not the HCAF.
-Zaned
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I would have suggested the Blackdog first.