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Title: More Crawlin'
Post by: kevincurtis on August 02, 2007, 04:04:07 PM

Hi All

Bin doing some more recording with the GWC and it still makes me smile everytime I plug the wee fella in :)

Its one of the rhythm tracks and most of the leads on this track which i am still working on the mix of... so if you reckon there's anything glaringly wrong then let me know!  :lol:

Cheers

Kevin

http://www.theaxemancometh.co.uk/resources/BFT.mp3

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Post by: steve on August 03, 2007, 09:28:33 AM

Sounds great, massive sounding riffs and very catchy.And of course great tone.

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Post by: sgmypod on August 03, 2007, 03:26:07 PM

love the track and tone, what amp etc you using, excuse me being thick is GWC guitar with crawler?

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Post by: kevincurtis on August 03, 2007, 04:20:57 PM

Cheers for the compliments - I've been kicking this low D riff around for a fair while, finally got it recorded. :) GWC was just my shorthand for Geoff Whitehorn Crawler...but guitar with Crawler works just as well! :)

On this track its my JCM800 run through a demonizer pedal set flat and then straight into the desk... doesnt quite emulate the sound from the amp, but best way I have found to get the best tone into the desk.

Kevin

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Post by: sgmypod on August 03, 2007, 04:29:57 PM

cool..have you tried any of the palmer di boxes

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Post by: kevincurtis on August 03, 2007, 04:51:23 PM

Yeah, I used to have one and recorded my first album with it - they are great boxes...wish I hadnt traded it now!  :cry:

Kevin

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Post by: Ratrod on August 03, 2007, 06:49:12 PM

Cool clip. I enjoyed that.

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Post by: Philly Q on August 03, 2007, 10:58:51 PM

Great stuff!  That's the kind of tone and playing I like to hear.

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Post by: sskint on August 30, 2007, 01:01:16 AM

Brilliant track! F**K yes! Is the crawler more mid heavy then the RY or Holy Diver?

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Post by: kevincurtis on August 30, 2007, 08:12:18 AM

thanks fella  -  i replied to your pm regarding setup. I cannot comment on crawler compared to either of the other pickups unfortunately, but I'm sure some of the guys around her can help :)

Cheers

Kevin

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Post by: Ratrod on August 30, 2007, 04:16:47 PM

The Crawler is one of the middy-est pickups in the BKP range. Probaly the middy-est of them all.

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Post by: keano on August 30, 2007, 06:05:51 PM

That middy wow... thought it would be Holy Diver. Man had to listen to this again. Love this stuff. does it muddy up under gain?

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Post by: Philly Q on August 30, 2007, 10:54:48 PM

Quote from: Ratrod

The Crawler is one of the middy-est pickups in the BKP range. Probaly the middy-est of them all.

Would it be true to say the RY has more upper mids, the HD more low mids and the Crawler more, er, mid-mids?  :?

Or is that complete and utter bollox?

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Post by: Twinfan on August 31, 2007, 12:11:03 AM

That sounds superb!

Very Velvet Revolver...

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Post by: Machek on August 31, 2007, 02:07:58 AM

Quote from: keano

That middy wow... thought it would be Holy Diver. Man had to listen to this again. Love this stuff. does it muddy up under gain?

I've been using 'em for like a month now with this kind of level of gain (look at the vid)  http://www.myspace.com/lastpay
and they take it really well, retaining great definition and bite through the gain but with two extra-balls in the mids that the 498T just didn't have!! Love them!

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Post by: kevincurtis on August 31, 2007, 08:06:20 AM

The upper middy mids does make sense  :) ... I had a custom custom in this strat style guitar which I felt lacked a little in terms of ooommpphhh and I also found that i was adding a few bd's of gain at around 3.5khz to give it a bit more cut/bite... so the guys at BKP suggetsed the crawler, which has given me those things...I would say that I have tweaked the mid range on the amp down a tad so would go along with it having a lot going on there...but it sounds really full and articulated across the whole range on this guitar :)

K

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Post by: sskint on August 31, 2007, 06:30:14 PM

Machek on the video is that the crawler on the opening riff? Sounds big. what amps are you guys playing there?

So is the Crawler as mid heavy as the JB? Is it loose like the JB?

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Post by: Machek on August 31, 2007, 07:47:03 PM

Halas no it still was the Gibbo 498T at that time, but if you liked that i must warn ya that the Crawler must sound like ten times better than that, they are thicker more defined, more raucous and just more pleasant in the highs, the gibbos made me hate those frequencies that were piercing my ears and all i wanted them to do is die, so i would erase them with the tone knob never higher than 5... but the 498T is quite scooped in the mids so it left me with a very poor range of frequencies... Now i'm just happy with my trebles -that just bring bite and definition and no shrillness- and always leave the tone knob at 10, which is a huge change for me! And it sounds awesome. if you liked these kinda tones in the vids, you will LOVE the Crawler bridge

The amp was a Genz-Benz 100 watter, i don't know which model. I thought they sounded quite okay but you know how you don't really really hear your sound on stage

EDIT: was this one: http://www.genzbenz.com/?fa=detail&mid=1403&sid=416&cid=91

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Post by: Machek on August 31, 2007, 07:53:09 PM

And i can't compare to the JB, never played one... but they sure have some huge balls in the mids, i was afraid it was gonna be those oozing undefined sloppy mids ala QOTSA which i don't like either, but it's nowhere near that, it's just firm, raucous, thick, and greatly ballsy.

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Post by: JJretroTONEGOD on September 01, 2007, 03:51:54 PM

Nice clip, it's very american badass rock in a good way! I hate mp3! ggrrrr, reminds of GnR and Ratt a bit, GOOD WORK! 8)

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Post by: kevincurtis on September 02, 2007, 06:25:02 PM

In my view the JB is about as 'middly' as the crawler, but doesnt have the same girth across all strings  - on my tokai strat it was a little thin at the top range but good in mid and bass end (on a LP type I imagine that would be very think and meaty at bottom and midrange and decent level at top end). The crawler has more definition and has higher output IMHO.

Put it this way - the JB now isnt in any of my guitars, the crawler is on my main guitar and the custom custom is on the tokai :)

Hope this helps :)

Kevin