Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Righteous_Slave on August 03, 2010, 01:15:48 PM
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Would it be stupid to be the Mule in the neck position and the Holy Diver in the bridge on an Epiphone Les Paul?
For that matter, would it be a bad idea to combine any contemporary and vintage pickups?
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definitely not. tim himself uses a Painkiller and Mule combo in one of his guitars :D
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should be fine!
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the neck version of the diver is almost as vintage sounding as the mule
maybe more 70ish
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i got mine for some days and indeed the diver set is really good. The neck is my favourite neck bkpickup for now. Really balanced tone, not too dark or bassy nor too sparkling, very musical pickup with not so much output making it natural sounding to me.
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is the neck HD as snappy and articulate as the NB neck? does it get muddy during fast runs/ sweep picking etc?
how does it compare in terms of output and eq?
I'm looking for a fat sounding articulate neck pickup for singing leads, fuller than the CS that I have, it's for an all mahogany schecter V (no maple top, rosewood fretboard)
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I'm looking for a fat sounding articulate neck pickup for singing leads, fuller than the CS that I have, it's for an all mahogany schecter V (no maple top, rosewood fretboard)
That's definitely not the HD neck IMO.
The Miracle Man neck would be a good bet - it's very full & powerful but also very clear. Or perhaps the VHII neck if you wanted a more PAF-y "chime" in a pickup with a similar level of output to the CS. If it's any help, I did a neck lead shootout here (http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11952.0) & here (http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12572.0)
As to the original question of this thread, no I don't think a Mule neck with an HD bridge would be a mistake - I've heard the Mule with a Miracle Man bridge & it seemed to balance OK.
There are probably some cimbinations that wouldn't work well (too full a neck with too bright a bridge or vice versa) & if you want to play safe, a calibrated set will always give you a combination that was designed to work well together, but the only neck pickups I've ever tried with other bridge models were CS (with MM & PK) & VHII (with NB, HD & MM) which have always worked OK.