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Pickups / Re: Another Pickup Suggestion Thread

« Last post by b.gandt on April 01, 2025, 03:39:22 PM »

Alder body, Maple neck, right?  You may want to consider a Crawler.  It is hot, but more open than many other hot pickups.  Cleans up well.  I used one in a single H configured basswood MIJ Strat.  I can get a fair amount of sounds out of that single humbucker.

I used Mules in a single cut Korina PRS SE.  great classic sound that can be goosed for heavier sounds, very dynamic.  It may be brighter than you want in your chattel, though.  Only a guess on my part, though.

No experience with the Poly PAR and Rebel Yell.  I have read comments here that the Rebel may be too bright for a Strat.

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Pickups / Re: Something between a Mule and a Rebel Yell

« Last post by b.gandt on April 01, 2025, 03:25:44 PM »

If you’re open to a humbucker size P90, the humbucker size Supermassive may do the trick.  I use one in  93 Hamer Special, and I’ve used the Mule, which I like, but I can understand your pov on it.

The Supermassive can have good cut without being overly trebly.

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Pickups / Re: Polymath

« Last post by b.gandt on April 01, 2025, 03:17:33 PM »

Yeah…it has been quiet.  Which is unfortunate, as folks here have good info.

I haven’t used the Polymath, so here’s a bump.

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Pickups / Polymath

« Last post by yellow eyez on March 25, 2025, 03:30:40 PM »

Man, I thought this place might have some info or feedback but it’s deader than a doornail

I guess Polymaths it is since I won’t be getting a reply

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Pickups / Something between a Mule and a Rebel Yell

« Last post by fentonwinmill on March 23, 2025, 06:43:57 PM »

I have two guitars one with a Mule (strat style) and one with a Rebel Yell ( Music man Axis style), for an other guitar I'm looking for a pickup set that sits between the two. The mule has a little two much top end that can take your head off, the Rebel Yell not quite enough and can sound a little muddy (although great for high gain 80s power chords).
Any recommendations

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Pickups / Aftermath 7 output question

« Last post by Ivanickson on March 22, 2025, 05:58:17 PM »

Hello! I just installed a new Aftemath on my 7-string guitar and was a bit confused, it sounds fine for my guitar, I like it, but it's extremely hard to make it saturate, I'm not used to hit at the limit after Black Hawks or any other BKPs. Also, I have Aftermath in my 6-string guitars and it's 10db of volume difference between both guitars, there are some samples and screen. Pickups height is ~1.7mm for 7-strings and ~2.5 mm for 6-strings.
Any ideas or expirience? Is that ok or maybe smth went wrong?
For more context, I have Evertune in my guitar, 74 strings in F#, I set my Babyface gain at 0 for other pickups and it works, and also I'm new at soldering, think I do it ok, but probably I don't know some details.

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Pickups / Another Pickup Suggestion Thread

« Last post by alex.pinheiro.soares on March 22, 2025, 12:32:02 PM »

Hello everyone!
I am looking for some objective recommendation (within each one personal appreciation) of pickup set for a Charvel Pro Mod Rel.
The guitar comes from factory with Seymour Duncan® JB™ TB-4 on bridge and Seymour Duncan® '59™ SH-1N on neck.

I basically play original (band) songs that flows from 60s rock through 70's Led Zeppelin/Wolfmother to 80/90s (somewhere around Guns N Roses, Motley Crue etc), of course not even near in terms of quality.

I am using a Marshall SH20 (20 Watts plexy) and i play a lot with guitar volume to get clean tones from it (either using a tele with Seymour duncan quarter pound and/or Strat with BK Irish Tour)!

So you may ask, why change pickups on the Charvel, i love the neck and the playability, and i was looking for some pickups that would react better to volume and would be able to get some decent cleans and dynamics (the JB is quite harsh/aggresive some times). I have to do some "intros" wich are heavy on delay/reverb effects and these pickups don't deal really well with it (in my opinion/ignorance).

So. should i drink a glass of water and wait for GAS to disapear or any of the below would fit my purposes and why:
- BK Mules
- BK Rebel Yell
- BK PolyPaf

I also have some Suhr Thronebucker set, but on an Ibanez FR1720 i had they lacked "character", too much HiFi for my taste!

Thanks for reading this!

Best Regards

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Pickups / Re: can anyone compare the Rebel Yell neck and the Peacemaker neck tonewise?

« Last post by falcopryor on March 20, 2025, 02:03:03 PM »

Thanks for the reply.. I'll assume you meant RY and not Cold Sweat. Thanks again.

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Pickups / Re: can anyone compare the Rebel Yell neck and the Peacemaker neck tonewise?

« Last post by timmy_b on March 20, 2025, 11:53:35 AM »

The coils of both neck models are quite similar, but the variant of Alnico v magnet in the Peacemaker neck is weaker than the one in the Cold Sweat, giving the Peacemaker a softer attack and a little more headroom, ever so slightly backing off the heat. This gives the Peacemaker a more expressive touch with a little more delicacy. Otherwise, yes, they are fairly closely related.

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Pickups / Re: Nomad compared to flat 50 bridge

« Last post by cuttingEdge on March 19, 2025, 08:09:12 AM »

i can see it working great with a plexi circuit or marshall in general.

i mostly play my diezels and i think the Bosses EQ and  the Amps voicing didn't work out together.
I tried the Boss in 2 different guitars (one very bright and rather skinny) but stilll was kind of muddy.
Too much lows (and low mids?) pre distortion i guess. Makes for a horrible distortion characteristics which i only can describe  as having a foghorn quality.
I have this happend with other PUs, too and the RiffRaffs are the complete opposite in this matter. Maybe not the most beautiful sounding EQ curve on those, but they feel so good and do exactly what i want them to do. Also i like them for everything! from clean to highgain.
High mid prominent Pickups are kind of grating to the ears, but they have the clear and cutting nature i seem to prefer for distorted sounds.