Happy new year fellow BKP lovers!
After finally managing to install the pups just before leaving on hol in December, I have finally plugged the Tele... and boys (and girls) I can tell you that 2010 is starting great!
I didn't experiment much with pedals or EQ on the amp, but with a flat EQ and my usual 2 1/2 gain setting which produces a slightly over the edge clean sound, I had bags of fun, no matter what pup selection I was on. So here we go:
Bridge pup: This little one is punchy and trebbley but without what I would call the woody overtone (is probably not the right word, but it is the first word that come to mind) that the stock pups had, which made me roll off the tone knob each time I had the bridge on at this level of gain. It definitely is a shift towards the sound I am after. Is it going to be enough of a shift, time will tell. I did a quick check with the FOD, the overdrive at low to mid level, and believe it or not but the above woody trebbley overtone and with the overdrive I found it brilliant. I'll have to play somemore to make sure I am not imagining things, and I'll try to record a clip so you can finally really have an idea of what I am talking about.
Both pup in parallel: I am not quite sure how to describe this setting yet or how I will use it, but it is pleasant.
Neck pup: As the bridge, for a neck pup it has some punch and it is trebbley. Which is briliiant as I can say good bye to the flabby and muted bass that the stock pup would produce on the low E string. It actually came to the point where I tuned the guitar in drop D to get a bit more "percussion / life" from the low string. The pup is brilliant for funky trebbley triad chords and Morello like riffs on low strings.
[I have just heard songs from Chris Cornell new album... he is gone electro! I mean it is always commendable when an artist is trying different things, but I don't think I will buy this one. Such a shame, he was one of my favourite artist lately]
Both pup in series: At first it sounded a bit strange to me. It is humbucker like but with the bridge and neck flavour. After a bit of playing around i found it is great to play powerful triad progression toward the neck on higher strings, I was actually coming up with a guitar part with 2 voices, power chords on D, A and D strings and triad chords on D, G and B strings, and I think it will sound brilliant with first voice played with the bridge pup and the second with the series setting. I'll try to record this one as well.
Finally, You might remember I was looking to have the dryness of the unplugged sound come through amplified sound. It didn't quite work at first until I used one of my old nylon like thick plectrum. Again, some more experimenting will be required but it sounds very promising :) :)
So hopefully I will have some clips to follow. I'll try to do some with the Studio, as I realise that I haven't produced proper one yet.
BKP rocks!!!
