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Pauldem

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Baritone Pickups
« on: January 16, 2009, 01:53:20 PM »
Howdy,

I'm currently looking into baritone guitars as I have been using standards with odd string configs till now. I have a Musicman set which I really like but was wondering If I should look at the nailbomb for a grindier noise. The guitar I'm looking at will just have a bridge pickup.

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Paul

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 01:58:40 PM »
Nailbombs are pretty grinding

Sounds fine to me.

Pauldem

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 02:03:02 PM »
I normally work at drop C, so I just want to make sure I'm not losing any articulation. Cheers for the quick response :D

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2009, 02:20:40 PM »
Wez told us Tim suggested him Black Dog for his Baritone fannet fret guitar for Roobubba... They can give a better shot about how it sounds, but they were amazed by the tone

(as amazed that Roo played "Maybe I'm Amazed" together with his Paul's Live At Red Square DVD :lol:)

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2009, 02:34:26 PM »
Interesting, I don't know much about the Black dog pickups. I'l see if I can check it out. Many thanks

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2009, 02:43:25 PM »
Interesting, I don't know much about the Black dog pickups. I'l see if I can check it out. Many thanks

Made uppon Jimmy Page tone (old 500t on bridge), but a quick search will give you better answer than mine... :D

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2009, 03:06:23 PM »
I remember reading here that lower output pickups are recommended for baritone guitars, to retain clarity.
Hence the aforementioned Black Dog.

Woods and other specifications would be helpful for a recommendation :wink:

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2009, 03:23:07 PM »
Ah, well at this time it's a discussion with Jonathan at Feline. I currently use a homemade effort for the drop C, but the guitar is not really meant for such things. I was thinking about getting one made as I've not really been taken with those I've seen on sale.

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2009, 03:31:26 PM »
Wow! Good news! He build some damn sexy guitars!

Pauldem

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2009, 03:47:18 PM »
He built me this sexy little number and I'm hopeful to repeat much of the design on the baritone:

Maybe not to everyones taste but she's a looker in my book :D Miracle man set in there to boot!

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2009, 03:52:28 PM »
yeah, took some convincing but we went lower output as tim suggested and couldnt be happier.  Tim said he had done a lot of testing out with his pickups in baritones and Blackdog's were his favorite - so thats what we used. 

For reference that was on a multi scale 26.5-28" baritone strung with 13-68's (or did we go 14-70 in the end - i gave roo some extra strings to experiment) and tuned AEADF#b

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2009, 03:55:29 PM »
Made uppon Jimmy Page tone (old 500t on bridge), but a quick search will give you better answer than mine... :D

I think it would be a replica of the replacement pickup Jimmy got wound when his PAF packed it in

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2009, 03:58:32 PM »
Good stuff, I don't know I'f i'll be sinking quite so low string wise as I'm hopeful to play a touch of lead. Does this not matter so much due to the scale length being greater? Lord knows what I'm doing at the moment, but I have a Jim root Tele with 12-52s that's doing the job. Very little know how has been applied to date :(.

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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2009, 04:04:10 PM »
He built me this sexy little number and I'm hopeful to repeat much of the design on the baritone:

Maybe not to everyones taste but she's a looker in my book :D Miracle man set in there to boot!

Nice, I've seen that on the Feline site many a time!  :)
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Re: Baritone Pickups
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2009, 04:08:04 PM »
Very kind sir. The baritone will essentially be the same but with one pickup in solid black with white binding I think. Should be fun once I get myself in gear.