Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: CaptMurica on September 21, 2013, 12:14:48 AM
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A long while ago I came to the forum to see which pickups would sound best in a PRS Torero. Unfortunately, it turns out that someone else got to it before I was about to purchase it. However, I did find a different guitar that became total eye candy to me. I found an Ibanez RG920MQM in Desert Red. It is part of their Premium series which I'm really impressed with. I enjoyed playing this one more than the PRS, shockingly. Now, while the stock pickups aren't terrible, I felt as if something is missing from its tone. I listened to sound clips of the Black Hawks and love what I hear, but I'm curious to see which magnet would be better for it (in the bridge position). I would assume the Alnico 5 would be better, but I want to double check.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qacdnnbe2k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qacdnnbe2k)
check out this official video. its awesome for your situation i think.
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It's a little hard to tell in this video. I know maple is a bright tone wood but I don't know about Basswood. Would the Basswood/Maple board/Maple neck combination make the guitar overall fairly bright?
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brightish id say. from what i know basswood is sort of in the middle usually on a brightness scale but maple would brighten it up a bit.