pickups for all-maple guitar?

[dean corll]

Hello,

What would be a good Bare Knuckle bridge and neck humbucker set for an all-maple guitar?

The guitar is a rear-routed, 25.5" bolt-on Super-Strat, with maple body, maple neck, and maple fingerboard.  it has stainless-steel fretwire and an Original Floyd Rose (non-recessed).

I want to use this guitar for a mix of 80s metal.....Loudness, Accept, Grim Reaper, Dokken, etc.

Thank you!
DC

[ericsabbath]

cold sweat or holy diver
the cold sweat is sharper, more crunchy and raw sounding
the holy diver is more open and fat on chords, has big harmonics and thick lead tone

what's your amp?

[FernandoDuarte]

BigB has an all maple guitar and is using Crawlers and loving it:
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18429.msg247462#msg247462

[ericsabbath]

almost forgot the rebel yell  :D

[Ribboz]

I remember hearing that a Miracle Man works really well in all maple.

[gwEm]

I remember hearing that a Miracle Man works really well in all maple.

it surely does :) :)

[BigB]

BigB has an all maple guitar and is using Crawlers and loving it:
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18429.msg247462#msg247462

I indeed really love my Crawlers, but I'm not really into metal. Also this Vox has going-thru neck and a rosewood fretboard, so it's not quite the same beast.

@dean: the Crawlers are already quite hot, but still mostly vintage voiced. You can get some great distorted tones out of them, now possibly not what you're after. From experience, maple-bodied guitars can be touchy wrt/ what pups you put on them, and can also sound very different depending on construction, fretboard and, ouf course, the piece of wood itself. I also have an all-maple (including freatboard) bolton neck strat-like - another Mastumoku Vox from the same year - and it sounds very different from the one that got the Crawlers. I think a Cralwer bridge would sound fine on it too, but still not in a 80's metal way. There once was a youtube clip of some hi gain BKPs on a maple guitar but I lost the link... :-/

[Philly Q]

cold sweat or holy diver

All maple, bolt-on, Floyd, stainless frets.... isn't it going to be the brightest bright guitar since Brighty McBright's Brite-o-caster?

I guess you want pretty bright for those '80s metal sounds, but I think a Cold Sweat in that would be so razor-sharp it'd cut your head off.

We need some Denim n Leather input on this one.

[Zaned]

All maple, bolt-on, Floyd, stainless frets.... isn't it going to be the brightest bright guitar since Brighty McBright's Brite-o-caster?

I guess you want pretty bright for those '80s metal sounds, but I think a Cold Sweat in that would be so razor-sharp it'd cut your head off.

We need some Denim n Leather input on this one.

Sounds pretty much like a George Lynch strat, except I don' know whether he uses SS frets. I have no experience on all-maple bodies, but I've read that they have a real good dose of mids Maple is TIGHT on both the lows and highs. Of the ceramic models, I'd go for the Miracle man. Tim once said that with the Holy diver, the mids might get congested.

Of the ceramic models, I'd certainly choose Miracle man - tight and thick tone most probably. I'm not so sure about the Alnico pups however.

-Zaned

[Philly Q]

Sounds pretty much like a George Lynch strat, except I don' know whether he uses SS frets.

You're right, and I think the Miracle Man has been suggested for Lynch tones in the past (although his tone nowadays seems quite different from the classic Dokken albums).

[gwEm]

clips of miracle man bridge in all maple guitar:

http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography/by/gwem_and_counter_reset

try track 2 or 3

happy now?! ;)

[dean corll]

gentleman, thank you for the replies.  appears that a Miracle Man set would be the ticket.

dc

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