what if you'd have got just one guitar?

[dheim]

just a classic - completely useless - forum debate.
it's aimed at multiple guitars owners or at who had the chance to own or try many BKP models and had to make a single choice...

in this years i collected a pretty nice and wide range of guitars and pickups... but what pickup (or set) set would i choose if i had to keep just one?

it's quite hard to choose but i'd say nailbombs. definitely... (the only ones i'm quite sure i wouldn't choose are holy divers and miracle men... not because i don't like them but because i find them quite "limited" for my tonal needs)

and you?

[syr2012]

(the only ones i'm quite sure i wouldn't choose are holy divers and miracle men... not because i don't like them but because i find them quite "limited" for my tonal needs)

That's interesting, since I've found the HD to be the opposite, but that's largely due to the coil split. I've always wanted a bridge nailbomb, but if I had to choose from what I already have, I'd pick a HD bridge and MQ middle, or just the overwound queen with a coil tap.

How's the MM limited?

[Twinfan]

Holy Divers are my favourite BKPs.

But to be honest if I only had one guitar it wouldn't have BKPs in it.  I think it's just fine as it is..........  ;)

[roland_rat]

For me if I could have only one it would have Yardbirds in  it.  I suspect I would miss Humbucklers but the tele  with Yardbirds seems to be the axe that I keep picking up a large proportion of the time.

Lets hope that grey day of one guitar never comes! :shock:

[dheim]

(the only ones i'm quite sure i wouldn't choose are holy divers and miracle men... not because i don't like them but because i find them quite "limited" for my tonal needs)

That's interesting, since I've found the HD to be the opposite, but that's largely due to the coil split. I've always wanted a bridge nailbomb, but if I had to choose from what I already have, I'd pick a HD bridge and MQ middle, or just the overwound queen with a coil tap.

How's the MM limited?

i'm not saying it's objectively limited... just it does MY things worse than other pickups. i'm mostly a lead guitarist, and for lead i don't mean shredding but the kind of melodic playing you usually have in gothic music... for that kind of things i prefer a smoother and middier pickup like the nailbomb.
of course MMs kick ass for thrashy rhythms, but it's not what i play most of the time!

[the prince of shred]

i DO only have one guitar :( (well the others are real cheap...)
gibson lp menace and soon to have a mm bridge and possibly a nb neck (shock horror but its what tim advised ;) ).....

[38thBeatle]

Not having tried every set I am not able to say but I favour single coils and Strats...so a Strat with Apaches-an arrangement that I am more than happy with.

[HTH AMPS]

my Les Paul with the Abraxas set - similar to the Mules I love so much, but with just enough extra juice on the bridge pickup while retaining the same kind of tone.

[HairyChris]

Prolly Cold Sweats as long as they fit the guitar.

[dave_mc]

haven't tried enough to say... i've only got the MM/CS set, and for the wide range of stuff I play, it's not really versatile enough. Not a complaint, they work well for what i wanted, but i got that set in my legra because I knew I didn't only have one guitar, kind of thing. :)

[sebby123]

Prolly Cold Sweats as long as they fit the guitar.

+1  Les paul, With Cold Sweats is my choice.

[indysmith]

Mules. Obviously! :lol:

[FELINEGUITARS]

Probably I'd chose my Amber LIon with Miracle Man bridge and Mule neck
might be tempted to swap the Mule  to a Cold Sweat Neck or a Mississippi Queen

[gwEm]

its not necessarily my 'number one' (actually my number two), but if i can just have one guitar it has to be my white steinberger GP:



it has a miracle man set, which is my 2nd favourite bkp set.


the mule is my favourite bkp set, and my '84 "johnny winter" flying V is rapidly becoming my 'number one'

[shaman]

REBEL YELL/LP STANDARD!!!!!!!!!