Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Elessar [Sly] on December 01, 2011, 11:11:38 AM
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My strat currently has a set of 3 Mothers Milk pickups in it. I want to retain that bluesy 60s sound (frusciante type sound) but I want more kick in the bridge. I don't really use the bridge position and I'd like to be able to use high gain with the strat bridge without putting a humbucker in there and killing the way it looks. Would I be able to retain the sound of the mothers milk in the neck position and middle position (and inbetween) but have the sinner for high gain distortion in the bridge?
I really don't want to kill the cool bluesy woody sound it has.
EDIT: I don't want Irish Tours/Trilogy Suit/other singles, I want to keep the mothers milk middle, and neck.
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Would it be enough if you took that Mother's Milk bridge pickup with baseplate that adds bit more bottom-end and punch to it?
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How much would that cost to get done (thereabouts).
I suppose it could be done =/
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How much would that cost to get done (thereabouts).
I suppose it could be done =/
I have no clue what it costs when made afterwards. I ordered one BKP Strat-pickup with the Zinc baseplate and it was £5 extra. You should send email to mr Tim Mills and ask how much it would cost. Or then just sell your current MI bridge pickup and buy a new one with baseplate :)
Also... those Irish Tours are pretty damn good pickups. I've got a set of those like a 1,5-month ago and I have to say those are good all-rounders in a Strat.
The problem with the Strat's bridge pickup has always been the fact that it tends to sound thin. Therefore that baseplate-thingy is a good option. Not everyone wants to have higher output from the bridge pickup... just a fatter tone.
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I strongly recommend a Apache-bridge with baseplate. The Apache sounds fat and round and can handle gain well. You'll keep the vintagevibe. Don't let you fool by dc-resistance. The Apache's fuller tonal spectrum makes up for that. I believe Tim has an Apache/MM's-set in one of his strats.
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The sinner has a ton of output, and will be too much for those mothers milks. i'd try a slowhand or irish tour with baseplate in the bridge.
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The sinner has a ton of output, and will be too much for those mothers milks. i'd try a slowhand or irish tour with baseplate in the bridge.
Ahh... I was hoping it could be used with them. I was looking for something that can take hi gain/metal from a single coil that would work with mothers milk. If this is the case it's a major bummer.
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in that case, i think a baseplated slowhand would be the thing. it will match more or less with the mothers milk and is good and ballsy enough for some hard stuff.
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I've got a Sinner bridge and Mothers Milk neck in my Jaguar and it sounds awesome. Tim said that the mismatch would be fine, he was not wrong.
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I think the mismatch is ok as long as you know there's a mismatch - it'll only be position 2 that suffers anyway and the sound may be to your liking anyway
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@elessar: why it won't turn your strat into a br00talz metal machine, the way to get good hi-gain tones from a strat bridge is to rewire your tone pots to have neck and mid on the first tone and the bridge alone on the second tone, replace the cr@ppy ceramic cap by a PIO one (.022 works fine IMHO) wired Gibson 50s way (as Feline suggested), and roll down your bridge tone almost all the way down (the adust to taste). Tested on a '94/95 MiJ with Texas Specials, works wonder (and I'm mostly a HB guy).
Now a baseplate might also help wrt/ low-ends and punch, for sure.
My 2 cents...