hamletic doubts... miracle men or not?

[dheim]

i've got almost EVERY contemporary BKP... lately i'm slowly realizing that the only pickup i had no interest into, the MM, is tonally very different from what i thought. and so here it comes MM GAS, of course...

i read exceptional things about MMs in basswood guitars... but how they sound in a thin mahoganey axe? i saw a gorgeous - and veeeeery cheap - ibanez RGA32, which is simply an RG shaped S with a fixed bridge...

should i do the thing that deep in the darkest abyss of my heart i already decided to do, and buy an 11th guitar JUST to put into it a couple of MMs? tell me not, for god's sake...

[badgermark]

Go on. Do it.

[ailean]

should i do the thing that deep in the darkest abyss of my heart i already decided to do, and buy an 11th guitar JUST to put into it a couple of MMs? tell me not, for god's sake...

I have that little voice too, it says 'You're going to do it, you knoW you are, just give in now and enjoy it.' I always take it's advice.

I suppose you might be sensible to get a set of MM's and try them in an existing guitar before you buy a new axe to mount them on. But hey, sense has nothing to do with guitar related purchases.

[ericsabbath]

what do you want to play with that guitar?
tuning matters too

and one weird thing about the miracle man is that it works like a tube amp  :lol:
sounds a bit boxy and too focused at low volumes, but it gets bigger, smoother and more open the louder you play
it really shines in a band

[dheim]

what do you want to play with that guitar?
tuning matters too

and one weird thing about the miracle man is that it works like a tube amp  :lol:
sounds a bit boxy and too focused at low volumes, but it gets bigger, smoother and more open the louder you play
it really shines in a band

the usual stuff... MY music (a sort of progressive gothic death), the mix of pseudo-gothic metal and "metalized" '80 covers i do with the band i'm currently in, and the things i play at home along records just to have fun (spacing from doom to melodic death metal)... of course i'd use it as a "metal" guitar, and won't even try to do rock and blues (but who knows?)... i'm tuned in standard E.
the fact is that i'm full of guitars and could afford even a one trick pony, but of course i don't want to end up with a guitar that i don't like to use... i don't think there's a real risk of completely disliking any BKP, after all the only good pickup i coudn't absolutely get with was the 81...

what you mean for "louder"? dynamics or amp volume?