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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Chargrilled on January 28, 2016, 06:48:05 PM

Title: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Chargrilled on January 28, 2016, 06:48:05 PM: Well what's your answer!!! :cheesy:
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Kiichi on January 29, 2016, 12:02:22 AM: I guess my answer would have to be the 10th, or by proxy the Stormy (even though I have no actually tried them). These vintage AII and AIII magnet things just have a certain charm about them that is beyond anything when done well. I can get the clearest, sweetest cleans from classic rock to jazz to folk and beyond. Classic OD in rock and hard rock has that warmth that I grew up on. And cause they are BKPs they can do classic metal too because of the definition. And always there is that certain something. I have tried modern PUs too and they were immensly awesome too, but the BKP vintages, especially the ones I mentioned have a certain "magic" to them. That something that seems to be beyond just frequencies.

I must admit thought....I am almost scared of what might happen when I fit a proper axe with a Blue Note set. In my mind that could be the perfect set for me. Expect for if Tim ever does a set that is to the Blue Note what the 10th is to the Stormy....I might just melt.
Literelly my dream set.

Also the RY deserves at least honorable mention. Anything more modern than what I just mentioned and this set kills in the right guitar.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Telerocker on January 29, 2016, 01:29:16 AM: Mules! They rule in most styles.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: darkbluemurder on January 29, 2016, 11:37:17 AM: Tough question - I would probably say Abraxas set.

Cheers Stephan
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: ericsabbath on January 29, 2016, 03:39:02 PM: custom riff raff bridge/mule neck combo in my 1973 les paul custom
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: gwEm on January 29, 2016, 04:02:25 PM: I have an A5 mule set thats sounded divine in every guitar its been in. This would be the set I'd keep.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: ericsabbath on January 29, 2016, 06:09:42 PM: Quote from: gwEm on January 29, 2016, 04:02:25 PM
I have an A5 mule set thats sounded divine in every guitar its been in. This would be the set I'd keep.

I once tried a neck VHII in the bridge of a les paul copy
it sounded amazing, better than the bridge VHII in the same guitar
considering the specs (wire type and gauge, coil (a)symmetry, magnet type and length), I suppose an A5 mule should be quite similar
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Playloud on January 29, 2016, 06:55:42 PM: VHII set!
:grin:
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: 38thBeatle on January 29, 2016, 10:01:21 PM: Very difficult to say. Apaches I think.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: AndyR on January 30, 2016, 10:20:29 AM: I'm assuming I'm allowed to keep one humbucker set, one strat set, and one tele set? :grin:

Strat - very close call. Irish Tours (Apaches and Sultans being the ones I let go), but that might be down to the guitar they're in.

Hums - no contest for me. Stormy Mondays, I love them (I'll let go of Mules, Riff Raffs, and MQs - yeah I know, not really hums, but they're more hums than strat/tele singles). I'm actually thinking of treating myself to another two sets of Stormies to replace the Mules and RRs in my 335 and SG.

Tele - Yardbirds (two sets of original Blackguard Flat 50s would sadly be given back...). I love the BGs, but find the Yardbirds a lot more usable/versatile for my stuff.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: _tom_ on January 30, 2016, 12:38:03 PM: Mules for me although I don't actually own a set now. I had them in my LPC for years and sounded great for everything. I ended up selling that guitar as I never really played it since getting my SG and the Mules just didn't sound the same in the SG. I think an A5 Mule might be a good bridge pickup for the SG though.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Yellowjacket on January 31, 2016, 08:39:25 AM: You, sir, are @#(*&@#(*&$@(*&)@(*&@# cruel. In the worst way. Always.

Juggerset hands down.

That being said, this would be a very upsetting thing to have to do.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: one on January 31, 2016, 10:36:09 AM: I only own a pair of juggs (until next month) so... easy for me :cool:
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Toe-Knee on January 31, 2016, 12:26:06 PM: I do not own them anymore but if I had to choose it would have to be the Miracle Man that I got in 2005 (everyone I've tried since hasn't sounded half as good even in the same guitar they all seem to have way more low end) & the Mississippi Queen neck.
Title: Re: If you could only keep one BK set - what would it be?
Post by: Alfi27 on February 01, 2016, 01:37:44 AM: Even though I do not have the set (yet), I'm gonna have to say the newest addition to my BKP collection; the Nantucket! The Holydiver is really close though. And the Riff Raff.. Haha, hope I never gonna have to choose only one :laugh: