Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Explorer2010 on June 27, 2010, 03:03:06 PM
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Hey guys I'm new to this forum, but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendatons for possible bare knuckle pickups to put in my explorer. The guitar is only 2 years old. I play a lot of 80s rock type stuff in a cover band. Any suggestions would help!
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If you list a few bands/songs that have a tone thats in the ballpark area your aiming for it will be a lot easier to make recomendations.
Also listing the guitars woods and construction will help.
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for 80s rock in an explorer I'd go with the Cold Sweat set
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definitely cold sweat set
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Riff raffs are also nice in Explorers.
Can you name some songs you do?
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I agree with the Cold Sweat recommendations - good in all that mahogany.
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Have you got the 500T and it's friend in there at the moment? If you like the general vibe it has already, but want "better", I think I was recommended Cold Sweat as well a couple of years ago.
Instead I went a different route, using pickups I already had in other guitars.
Riff Raffs - these worked very well. In fact, I think I posted a "they're never moving again..." at the time.
Mississippi Queens. The guitar the Riff Raffs came out of received these initially. Then one day I swapped the MQs into the Explorer to see what would happen... and they haven't moved since.
I find the MQs do a good enough "humbucker" job for what I want, and they just fit me and this guitar so well. However, I'm a blues and 70s-rock sort of guy. They might not be enough for 80s rock, you'd probably want to rule out MQs.
I'd happily try to to use Riff Raffs for it, but I suspect that Cold Sweats will get you closer (I've no experience of them though)