Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: ethan_hanus on July 23, 2010, 12:26:47 AM
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I got bored today, so I did this, I've heard people saying that the Painkiller is Icepicky? I don't think so at all, this track proves that.
Guitar is a 2006 Squier Affinity strat with Graphtech Teflone nut and saddles, brass trem block, AllParts tuners, BKP Painkiller in the bridge, 2 single coils which I don't use in this, and DR BlackBeauties medium guitar strings. Amp is a Valveking 112, stock. I only single tracked it, so it may sound thinnish. Drop C.
I used all the gain I have to record this, tis sad. :(
Am I fail?
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Good job w/ demoing this pickup... One again am amazed a Squier can sound anywhere near this good.
People seem to abuse the treble when featuring the PK, and with that high mid hike - things come of pretty icepick-y. I don't remember you telling me, but what is the wood configuration in this guitar? I've googled "Squier Affinity Strat" and pulled up maple FB and Rosewood FB - so i'd be curious to judge the wood combination in conjunction with these darker strings/lower tuning....
Did you end up micing the valveking this time, or is this still direct out?
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Sure thing, I found out officially what type of wood the guitar was when I was installing the single coils, had to trim some wood, and after grinding through about 2 mm of paint, it looks, and smells like Alder, so it's a solid Alder body, with a Maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Pretty standard strat specs, the neck feels like an Ibanez Wizard neck, so that's why I love this guitar so much. It's a pretty nice riffing guitar, but I need to have the frets redone if I want to do any really decent leads, it has a warp in the fretboard near the 15-th21st around the G,B, and e strings, from me not knowing how to take care of a guitar my first years of playing, so I ended up grinding down the frets there to compensate for the warping.
Nah, it's still DI, I don't have a mic or interface, so I can't mic it up. It's interesting, since I only single tracked this, I played with the tracking a bit. I high passes the guitars twice at 250hz, then I copied the the track, and pitch shifted it an octave lower, and low passed that at 7500hz to get the low end of the guitar without muddying it up, then I copied both tracks, moved it 20ms, and panned one group to the left 100%, and the other group 100% to the right.
I honestly can't believe that it worked decently.
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^^ that's nuts. Just double track stuff, never add a pitch shift for EQing purposes, unless you're going for some weird effect.
The very first track you did sounded the best with tone.. could just used a little after tape hi end eq, a slight bit of lows/mid dumping.
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Yeah, I actually figured out the best way to EQ it after that, I ran 2 high pass filters instead of one, and raise the highs around the 12000hz about 2 db and the mids around the 2000-3000hz about 1.4 db and high pass at 250hz and it just all drops into place.