Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Drewmetal on January 02, 2011, 04:10:25 PM
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Hey everyone this is my first post on BKP how you all doing?
just recently bought a ESP horizon NT-ii, Mahogany sides maple top. im in love.........
Being a die hard BKP fan was looking at switching out the Duncans for some BKP's.
Guitars set up it full D. 11-52's
I play melodic death metal (at the gates dark, tranquility, carcass) and power metal/classic metal (Iced earth, judas priest, Hibria, symphony x)
My current guitar is a PRS Standard Satin 22 which came with PRS Dragon 2's, which i found muddy in an all mahogany guitar with a rosewood fretboard So I Switched the bridge for a miracle man. The MM gives me a ton of cut, power and sounds amazing, love it! Put the mule in the neck and the cleans are phenomenal!!!
Any suggestions on pickups for my styling? i was contemplating the painkiller for serious shred leads and clarity of rhythm and finding a nice clean/crunch pickup for the neck for creamy clean guitar tones and for sweep arpeggio clarity.
haha and sorry i do go on a bit
Drew
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Yes, the Painkiller would be a great pickup to give you a contrasting sound to the MM - instead of being low-mid focussed like the MM, the PK has much more aggressive upper midrange and has a fantastic crunchy character when palm muting.
You seem to be happy to use lower output neck pickups, so I would highly recommend the VHII neck for what you've described - it's smooth but has excellent definition both clean and under gain.
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Damn, I wish I could try some more of these BKP's, but none of the n00bs around here even know what they are.
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Yes, the Painkiller would be a great pickup to give you a contrasting sound to the MM - instead of being low-mid focussed like the MM, the PK has much more aggressive upper midrange and has a fantastic crunchy character when palm muting.
You seem to be happy to use lower output neck pickups, so I would highly recommend the VHII neck for what you've described - it's smooth but has excellent definition both clean and under gain.
Cool thanks very much man!
If i wanted to go slightly hotter on the neck pickup whats a good bet?