Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: TheImmaterial on November 11, 2010, 11:55:37 AM

Title: Pickup for alder body, maple neck, rosewood board.
Post by: TheImmaterial on November 11, 2010, 11:55:37 AM

Hi, I've decided to resurrect my very first guitar with some bareknuckle TLC. It's bascially a pacifica model but with a humbucker at the bridge (H-S-H). It's gonna be a back up/workhorse/no nonsense affair so the plan is to get a nice tight, punchy bridge pickup mainly for modern punk rock distortion powerchords/riffs (preferably no scooped mids). I'm going to wire it straight to the output so I don't have to worry about pots and caps :)

I'll be running it through a randall or mes boogie rec to give you an idea of the distortion i use. Any advice would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Pickup for alder body, maple neck, rosewood board.
Post by: Nolly on November 11, 2010, 12:28:08 PM

Hey
I think the Nailbomb would work rather well for that  :)

Title: Re: Pickup for alder body, maple neck, rosewood board.
Post by: TheImmaterial on November 11, 2010, 01:05:22 PM

Cool, thanks. Do you know if i'll need the 50mm or the 53mm? Here's a link to the guitar if it's any help.

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/el-guitars/rgx121s/?mode=model

Title: Re: Pickup for alder body, maple neck, rosewood board.
Post by: aik on November 11, 2010, 03:01:55 PM

For Tremolos usually 53mm is the right spacing. Best way to make sure is to simply measure the space between both E strings.