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George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« on: December 02, 2013, 08:01:10 AM »
Hello I am new here and have never used any BKP, but I have heard nothing but good things about them. I own a custom maple body/maple neck and fretboard Charvel Socal, played through a Jet City JCA100H. I love George Lynch's tone, as well as Jake E Lee's, and I play a lot of other music from the same hair metal era, what would be the best pickup to help coax these kinds of tones out? From what I've read it looks like I'm going to want a Holy Diver or Miracle Man, just looking for some input if anyone has any.

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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2013, 08:18:08 AM »
You've picked out the best two options already so well done. The Holydiver is the most obviously Jake E. Lee sounding pickup and will suit your guitar and your woods very well. It's a versatile pickup with good cleans and possibly the best lead tone of any of the contemporary bridge pickups so it will do plenty styles but its natural home is 80s Metal. I absolutely love this pickup.

The Miracle Man looks like a very different proposition with its scooped mids and ceramic magnet but they're actually a lot closer than you'd think. Like the Holydiver, the Miracle Man is thick and smooth and screams out 80s Metal, it's just that it's a slightly later version of the genre. Think of the Holydiver as early 80s and the Miracle Man as more late 80s but in reality they have quite a crossover. The Miracle Man doesn't have the cleans of the Holydiver and it's not as versatile but it's also that bit tighter and a bit more aggressive. When I got my Miracle Man I asked BKP for essentially a Holydiver with a bigger bottom end, more screaming highs, a little tighter and a little more aggression. They said I'd simply described a Miracle Man so that's what I bought and it was exactly what I wanted.

It's down to where your priorities lie I guess. If you're after the Jake E. Lee tone, get the Holydiver because that's exactly what it is. If you want his tone but with a slightly more modern edge to it get the Miracle Man. The only other thing I'd say is that the EQ of the Miracle Man does lend itself well to maple guitars because maple tends to have quite a bit of upper mids while the mids on the Miracle Man are lower mids. The Holydiver is just mids, especially centre mids. I tried both in a maple neck-thru guitar and both worked really well so you should have no problems whatever you choose. I eventually kept the Miracle Man in that guitar, which was partly because of the way it sounded but also because I simply found I loved the Holydiver in my PRS.
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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2013, 08:25:21 AM »
Jake E. Lee = Holydiver
George Lynch = Miracle Man or Cold Sweat

If you want both tones, Miracle Man. Cold Sweat is too bright for the Jake E. Lee tone and lacks the chirpy attack in the midrange at which the Holydiver excels. Holydiver is a bit too middy for the Lynch tones.

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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2013, 02:24:45 PM »
The others summed it up perfectly. I own both the Holydiver and the Miracle Man and both will do the job. Just in a different way.

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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2013, 09:18:41 PM »
Having had both pickups, I'd probably recommend the HD a bit more over the MM for your particular guitar. My worry would be that the treble strings can sound a bit thin in standard tuning/light string gauges with the MM.
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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2013, 10:38:41 PM »
Apparently a lot of the time Jake played an SG Junior in the studio, the same one you see in the 'Shot in the Dark' film clip.  The closest pickup in the BKP range to that would be the Nantucket (for a HSP-90, the Mississippi Queen) ...
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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2013, 11:34:46 AM »
Maybe we should have clarified whether the OP is interested in the Ozzy Jake or Badlands Jake tones as they are a bit different. At least the Badlands tone screams Holydiver.

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Re: George Lynch/Jake E Lee
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2013, 01:58:15 PM »
I'd agree with what has been said so far
jake = Holydiver (he used Duncan Alan Holdsworth and later the JB model)
Lynch =  Miracle Man for Under Lock and Key /Back For the Attack tones and Cold Sweat for earlier stuff (George used Duncan Distortion but used LPs for rhythm guitars on ULAK album
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