Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Dennis on January 29, 2007, 04:17:52 PM
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Hello :D
I just signed in in this forum, and thought I would introduce myself for a bit here.
I am Dennis, 26 yrs old, and from Holland.
I have 2 guitars equipped with Bare Knuckle Pickups:
- Kritz Stradovarius with a Nailbomb calibrated set
- Music Man Silhouette Special with a Nailbomb at the bridge and Irish Tours in the middle and neck position.
I am trying to build my own 7-string guitar, in which a 7-string ceramic Warpig and a Cold Sweat wil be installed. I hope it will be ready soon, but I have 2 left hands, so it might take a while..
I am also thinking of assembling a strat style guitar, to be able to have some nice Knopfler and Shadows tones, but I am not sure which pickups to use....hell, maybe I should stop thinking and go with Tim's advice to use Apaches :D
Oh, and before I forget: I am a lousy guitarplayer :D
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Hullo Dennis!
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Greetings to thou from the land of Heineken!
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Greetings to thou from the land of Heineken!
hehehe, is that a good or a bad thing? :lol:
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Hi Dennis,
heh if Tim reccomends Apaches, then theres only one thing to do (especially if yuo want the shadows tones)
Rob...
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heh if Tim reccomends Apaches, then theres only one thing to do (especially if yuo want the shadows tones)
Yeah!
I already thought of that, but I am a little bit stubborn sometimes!
But chances are I go with the Apaches, I heard some nice sound samples in the Players section.....but that is the problem...I heard some nice samples from the other pickups too!!
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Hi
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dennis the menace!!
hullo
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Greetings to thou from the land of Heineken!
hehehe, is that a good or a bad thing? :lol:
Depends really.
TBH would kill to be drinking a Negro Modello in Texas right now.
But a close second is a 'real' Heineken surrounded by blonde cuties in Holland :)
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hello!
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Hi Dennis- yes get Apaches- you will not regret it.
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yes, maybe I should just do it 8)
In my other 2 guitars Tim adviced me, and that worked also, so why not here, right? :D
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Absolutely right-Tim is invariably right in these matters and I think that Apaches are his favourite single coils. A few days ago I let a friend use my Apache laden Strat-he was knocking out rock and blues riffs all night and had an huge grin on his face.
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I always have that with my Irish Tours.
Selector switch set to neck+middle pickup, a little overdrive on the amp, and trying to play :lol:
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Yeah I know where you are coming from-the Slowhands do that well too. ow if I ever get another Strat, I think it'll be Irish Tours but the trouble is, I would have to sell it again to pay for the divorce that would follow.
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Hey dude, welcome! :D
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Yeah I know where you are coming from-the Slowhands do that well too.
What do you think of the clean sound of the Slowhands vs the Apaches?
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I think the Apache is the better but that is just my taste. I like the warmth and clear tone that you get with the Apache.The Slowhands have great mids admittedly-I love them both but the Apache has it for me. I do think the Apache positions 2 & 4 are not as good as the Slowhands though but I think that that is the mids coming through a bit. I have a push/pull pot on the Apache Strat btw and the neck/bridge tone is very usable- heads a little into Tele territory and I have started to use it more and more.
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Hello Dennis from the land of Koch amps!
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Hello Dennis from the land of Koch amps!
and legos :P
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Hi Dennis, go with the Apaches if you are using a maple fingerboard. With rosewood it is still a great sound, but the mother's milks also sound very good.
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Hi Dennis, go with the Apaches if you are using a maple fingerboard. With rosewood it is still a great sound, but the mother's milks also sound very good.
Hey Dennis, Welcome!
Next to Tim: "In Phil King I Trust"
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I think the Apache is the better but that is just my taste. I like the warmth and clear tone that you get with the Apache.The Slowhands have great mids admittedly-I love them both but the Apache has it for me. I do think the Apache positions 2 & 4 are not as good as the Slowhands though but I think that that is the mids coming through a bit.
hmmmm...don't say the Slowhands are better in 2 & 4, that means I don't know yet what I shall do, Apaches or something else :D
But I heard some nice sound samples from apaches in the "in between positions" though.
Hello Dennis from the land of Koch amps!
Yeah! But unfortunately I never played one :oops:
Hi Dennis, go with the Apaches if you are using a maple fingerboard.
That is exactly what Tim said!
I am going to use a maple fingerboard for the strat assembly thing for sure.
But then the choices..Apaches....or maybe sultan's....or maybe go for Slowhands anyway....choices, choices :D
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Dennis, in the case of 2 & 4 positions, If I were to choose between the two, I would definately go with the Apaches-the difference(to my ears) is not significant enough. It is just the thicker tone of the Slowhands -as the 2 & 4 positions can be hollow.
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Maybe I should just go with the Apaches then!
I finally wanted a guitar to have a Shadows tone, and also the Knopfler tone as in On every street...that is soo sweet.
But I still have some time to decide, as I only have a strat body at the moment.
I first want to finish my 7-string, and after that I will do the strat-assembly project. So I am still in the "search for components" stage.
I see lots of strat necks with rosewood fingerboards though....quite a bit less with a maple fingerboard. Maybe I end up making the strat neck myself, as I did with the 7-string.
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Hello,
After lots of "no-time enough to finish this guitar" I am finally sort of putting it together (except for covers and stuff like that), so heres my first self-built thingy:
(http://home.planet.nl/~dennis.stoots/DSC00559.JPG)
(http://home.planet.nl/~dennis.stoots/DSC00561.JPG)
(http://home.planet.nl/~dennis.stoots/DSC00562.JPG)
I am soo curious about how it will going to sound with the ceramic warpig and the cold sweat!
Anyone suggestions about how it will sound? :D :twisted: