Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: MichouAlakreum on May 11, 2011, 09:14:39 PM
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Hello,
I have an old Strat-like guitar, basswood body, maple bolt-on neck with a rosewood fretboard. Actually equipped with a no-name 3 single coil pickups. So my question is, will the Irish Tour set sound great on my guitar ? I will also change the capacitors for some paper-in-oil caps.
Thanks.
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Welcome to the forum mate!
Yes, they will sound great I think...but so will other BKPs. Really depends on the style you play / sound you want to get. Give us some info on that and we can help you further! ;)
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Thanks !
I'm playing essentially punk, ska, hardcore punk, and alternative rock. Grunge sometimes. But i'm not a solo player. I'm looking for such a versatile and balanced sound, I don't want to have a guitar optimised for a definite style. Do you think that my guitar will sound as shown in this sound clip (http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=strats&sub=vintage_hot&pickup=irish_tour) ? Can I play both clear and distorted sounds with this IT set ?
P.S. : Please excuse my English, I'm a frog ;)
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Welcome! The IT's handle clean and overdrive well. For grunge take a look at the Trilogies. They sound a bit more modern, but are very nice too and have way more output then IT's. The IT's are voiced like a beefed up early sixties sound, so quite vintage.
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The IT's are voiced like a beefed up early sixties sound, so quite vintage.
That's what i'm looking for. =) Thank you.
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Do you think that my guitar will sound as shown in this sound clip (http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=strats&sub=vintage_hot&pickup=irish_tour) ?
Good pups tend to react differently on different guitars, and basswood is not alder. Oh, and yes, amp, cab, strings, pick and fingers do make a difference too ;)
This set apart, you can expect something having about the same "character" in the end - the SH neck and mid and TS bridge were close enough to the clips on my thick-heavy-maple-body maple-neck maple-fretboard "strat-like" Vox Standard 25 - bare the difference between this guitar and a "true" strat.
Can I play both clear and distorted sounds with this IT set ?
Quite a few players managed to get great crunch-or-more tones from 60s / vintage voiced strats. wrt/ clean tones, this shouldn't be a problem. That is, unless your guitar sounds cr@p unplugged...