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Author Topic: alder body, maple neck and maple fingerboard  (Read 8052 times)

BigB

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Re: alder body, maple neck and maple fingerboard
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2010, 08:04:04 PM »
also I have noticed all the pup single coils are alnico 5 apart from the sultan which is alnico 2....so whats the difference between alnico 2 and 5....I notice a lot of the single coil seymours are alnico 2....so wondered why most BKPS are alnico 5, so whats the difference tonally between 2 and 5?

There's a sticky post by Tim about the different alnico grades: http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8005.0
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Re: alder body, maple neck and maple fingerboard
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2010, 08:15:39 PM »
update....so even after I had fiddled with the pup height I still couldnt get a good tone, so just for the hell of it I decided to RAISE the pup and put it nearer the strings, actually quite significantly nearer than the stock pups, suddenly the clean tone sounded MUCH better, and I could get some really nice clean tones, the over drive sounds where not as nice tho, and lead tones just still were muddy, but its really interesting that moving it closer helped, i would have thought moving it away would have been what was needed cos i figured it would have strong magnets, very interesting

I still think its not gonna be the ONE for me, re the chap who recomended sultans, most people seem to be suggesting vintage hot, can I ask particularly why the sultan? which seems to be the only alnico two pup??? and its less hot....while I am on the subject in laymans terms what does hot and cool actually mean tonally re pups?

also re the magnet sticky, I read it but sorta didnt understand it....I may be a bit slow to pick this up but from the descriptions I found it really hard to catch what the differences are.

and finally....what in real terms is the difference between irish tours and slowhands? the specs seem really similar

what a long posting
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