Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: brad1619 on June 03, 2011, 03:12:54 PM
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Hey guys I have just started learning guitar 2 months in and doing great!! I have decided to buy the best guitars available as they will make me the best player. Why not!!! its better to start the right way!
Spoke to a few mates who know a thing or two and have purchased the following:
Gibson R9
Gibson R8
PRS Private Stock (on order)
Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster 56 Relic
I have heard that bareknuckle are the best pickups so going to swap all the stock pickups out of these guitars as stock ones are usually rubbish!!
I really like hard rock and metal music so was thinking about putting Ceramic Warpigs in the Gibsons and Cermaic Nailbombs in the PRS.
I am not sure about the Fender maybe a Cermamic Warpig as well and two sinner single coils?
Any help would be greatfully received!
Also if anyone knew much about amps that would be great... I have heard Dumble are very good...do you think it would be worthwhile buying one of them? Or should I go for a selection of Mesa's and Marshalls I really want the best sound possible so I can become a better player!
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Dumble? Have you just won the lottery?
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Me think he should get a Dumble AND a selection of Mesas and Marshalls... Everyone having spent as long as two full month learning the guitar deserves at least this very basic and minimal rig.
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Hard to know what to say.... it all seems a bit "in at the deep end" to me.
If you've only just started playing you'll find that your tastes in guitars and equipment will change a lot over the years to come. I'd question whether it's worth spending big money at this stage..... but if you can afford it, I suppose.... it's your money, fill your boots. :|
If you're into metal a Dumble - if you can find one - is probably not what you really want.
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Word. Spending those extra few thousand pounds on amps will improve your playing no end. :lol:
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I am a Nigerian general and need your bank details.
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I am a Nigerian general and need your bank details.
And im the Chieftan of scandinavia.
By the way. Gear does not make you better. Many hours of practice does make you a better player.
I really hope you troll, because using 88.000$ on an amplifier and ??? on guitars with 2 months of playing to back it up seems so... Yes.
But well i could still back you up if you went out and bought a les paul standard and a marshall half stack though. Good gear makes playing more fun :)
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I'd question whether it's worth spending big money at this stage.....
Now that's an understatement :lol:
@brad: sorry for being a bit sarcastic, but it takes much more than two month experience to be able to appreciate what gear suits you and make informed decisions. Go sell at least 2 of your guitars, get yourself some ordinary low/mid wattage tube amp (or even a good modeling amp FWIW) and a good distortion pedal, practice for a couple years, and then considering an upgrade might start to make sense.
Just my 2 cents...
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Just btw, the stock pickups on those guitars are usually NOT rubbish, but quite nice.
Maybe they don't fit your style too much, but even Burstbuckers are usable.
And, If I may bring in my own opinion here, shelling out over 50.000$ (including a dumble...) for someone who plays 2 months is...well. Overdone. Not neccesary. Most great guitar players today learned on cr@ppy stuff.
Then again, everyone can be a Nuclear scientist on the Internet...just saying.
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Dumble you don't buy for metal, but for these nice fusiontones a la Larry Carlton. If you're into metal there so many better and cheaper options, like Mesa Rectifier, Marshalls, Engls, VHT's, etc.
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This might not be pertinent if the OP is serious, and if so...please have the courtesy to keep your ambitions to yourself until such a time as they're valid. I know I for one am really disappointed when I see an absolutely abysmal guitarist with thousands of dollars worth of gear. The disparity is not beneficial to anyone, though I suppose the economy may thank you.
I know we've all got to start somewhere, but....really?
Side Note:
TROLL!.......IN THE DUNGEONS!!!!
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Yawn. Not even a good attempt at trolling.
I'd suggest getting bionic fingers. Normal flesh and blood fingers don't move fast enough across the keyboard fretboard. Only cost me $3.6bn so a bargain really.
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The best thing you could do is go into as many guitar stores and play as many guitars as you can. The one you always come back to is going to be the one that motivates you to play the most. And same goes for amps. Nothing worse than buyers remorse.
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No response from the OP? :|
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the fact he's considering WP and sinners in a fender with a dumble is funny... sorry if you aren't a troll however, i mean no disrespect XD
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2 months ? A real veteran. I was a virtuoso after 2 weeks. That's when I got my first Marshall Superlead and 59 LP. I've moved on to much better stuff since then.
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Hey guys a bit mean on some of the posts!
Money isnt really a problem for me and as such I just wanted to get the finest guitars and equipment available to make playing more fun and exciting.
I know what you are all saying that the majority learned on 'cheap gear', but why should they lol! I am sure if they or any of you had a few million in the bank and you really loved music and guitar you would all do what I have done.
Ok I admit I know very little about gear but thats why I asked...I thought you would all be happy for me and supportive of how keen I was.
I will just ask elsewhere.
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Ok I admit I know very little about gear but thats why I asked...I thought you would all be happy for me and supportive of how keen I was.
I will just ask elsewhere.
Make sure you let us know how you get on. Please.
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Buy me a guitar and I'll believe you! ;)
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Hey guys a bit mean on some of the posts!
Money isnt really a problem for me and as such I just wanted to get the finest guitars and equipment available to make playing more fun and exciting.
I know what you are all saying that the majority learned on 'cheap gear', but why should they lol! I am sure if they or any of you had a few million in the bank and you really loved music and guitar you would all do what I have done.
Ok I admit I know very little about gear but thats why I asked...I thought you would all be happy for me and supportive of how keen I was.
I will just ask elsewhere.
Indeed, I'd recommend a Gibson R9 with ceramic Warpigs into a Dumble. Great grinding sound. A Boss MT-2 (better two) will bring the brootalz.
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Where be my trusty sword, I smell a troll!
But I still might as well contribute something as I like to spread this vid anyways.
Yeah itīs all about the gear alone...hereīs satch playing on more or less your supermarket guitar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9v5e1TTwts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9v5e1TTwts)
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I still don't believe you're not a troll.
If you have that much money, employ someone to buy, set up and mod the guitars, amps and pedals for you. Or at the least employ someone to make sensible decisions for you.
If I went onto a computer forum and said "Hi guys, I have more money than sense and have never played computer games, but I want to get the best computer money can buy because that will make me the best player on the planet. I've heard SLI is good, shall I get a CPU and GPU farm?," what do you think the response would be?
Frankly, sir, I think you'd look great with a telecaster.
Roo
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Yeah itīs all about the gear alone...hereīs satch playing on more or less your supermarket guitar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9v5e1TTwts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9v5e1TTwts)
Gosh that was good. Lovely fun vibe about it.
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I will just ask elsewhere.
TGP?
EDIT: though if you're gonna post over there better change that opening post... instead of "rock and metal", say, "I want to sound like robben ford playing politician".
obviously i'm assuming you're a troll. if you're not, my apologies, but hanging about on forums a lot you get to see your fair share of troll posts... and this looks like one. Might not be, of course. :)
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Frankly, sir, I think you'd look great with a telecaster.
Coming from you, I think this is one of my favorite insults ever^^
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Frankly, sir, I think you'd look great with a telecaster.
buuuuurrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnn
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This is the equivalent of passing your driving test, then buying a Radical, race suit, and hiring a support team and turning up at a track day. All that'll have happened is that you'll have spent 10's of thousands of pounds to be overtaken by someone with experience in an MX-5, repeatedly.