Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Shash on September 20, 2006, 09:39:02 PM
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Just got these installed into my Godin, absolutely mindblowing difference! The neck is absolutely bang on for bluesy style tones, the bridge has excellent crunch, and thanks to coil taps I can get pretty much strat like tones out of it...
I wasn't expecting this HUGE a difference, but there we go! Even through my current shitety amp (marshall mg100dfx) it still sounds leagues better than before, soon upgrading this though, can't wait!
Here's a pic.
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Looks very nice, was considering one of those when I was looking for a superstrat style guitar but never got round to buying a new guitar :lol:
Any chance of clips? :P
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Verrrry nice guitar! The pups look amazing in there!
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Looks very nice, was considering one of those when I was looking for a superstrat style guitar but never got round to buying a new guitar :lol:
Any chance of clips? :P
I'll post some as soon as I can figure this line 6 toneport out :P trying to get it so I can hear what I play through my PC speakers while I play it rather than only after I recorded, I don't have the cables on me to either connect the line out to the speakers and I don't have headphones either :( Expect clips tomorrow I reckon.
The RYs split so well, completely different but still vibrant tone comes out, and the middle combinations with the slow hand work so good.
PS: You should definitely consider these over strats, they're more versatile and I compared it side by side with a custom shop relic and american deluxe, the Godin felt nicer to play, and now that the pickups are upgraded it sounds better too.
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that looks classy as hell!
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Nice engraving :)
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"you'll shoot your eye out!" :shock: :D
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That guitar is very nice indeed. The black covers on the RYs just look amazing on that guitar.
Have fun with it.
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Good for you, man. It's always cool when you fall in love with your sound and want to play. :)
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grats.... nice looking axe too!
I was playing around with my RY set in my Les Paul today, still fairly new to me and especially since I swapped preamp tubes in my Marshall JCM 900 SL-X (I had bought some Amperex, they compressed way too early so I couldn't get that much gain on them and not sound real ugly, I put the RFTs back in).
First, they are potted as well as one could ask. In my four tube JCM 900 SL-X, I turned the gain all the way up and had the MV on 5 and it started humming, the kind of hum you get before feedback, but it did not feedback. On any of my other guitars, it would be feeding back like crazy. On the Carvin which I played right afterwards, I was standing 10-15 feet away from the amp with the gain a little bit lower and it was feeding back like there's no tomorrow.... and that guitar doesn't particularly have a feedback problem either, only in comparison to the Les Paul with the BKP set.
Second, there is not a dead spot on the guitar now with the BKP. Despite being bright wood and bright pickups with a lot of mids, all the strings are about the same volume.
Third, they sound so good for so many things. With my Vox, they're a fat blues tone. With my Major, they're a fat blues tone to a 70s hard rock tone if I want to go deaf. With the modded SL-X, they nail a perfect Led Zeppelin tone all the way up to just being short on gain for the classic Marshall thrash sound such as Testament or Annihilator (one of my mods was to have the gain toned down a little however... if I restored the gain level, they would get there).
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grats.... nice looking axe too!
I was playing around with my RY set in my Les Paul today...
I haven't found a tone I haven't been able to get yet, and my gear sucks, a line 6 toneport and a marshall mg! Can't wait till new amp time :twisted: probably posting clips today too.
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grats.... nice looking axe too!
I was playing around with my RY set in my Les Paul today...
I haven't found a tone I haven't been able to get yet, and my gear sucks, a line 6 toneport and a marshall mg! Can't wait till new amp time :twisted: probably posting clips today too.
No offense, but you said it. ;)
Bring the guitar into a guitar store just to try it with some good amps ;)