Piledrivers and Flat '50

[sincspecv]

So I have a Tele with yardbirds and I love it. My favorite guitar I've ever owned. Recently I started playing with a band that's a little on the heavy side, and I'm getting tired of playing my Les Paul. Not that I don't like my Les Paul, I'm just having detachment issues with my Tele.
So now I'm looking to buy another Tele and putting some hot pu's in it. I've had gas for a set of piledrivers for a while now and now I have an excuse to get them. However after listening to some sound clips I have a feeling the bridge night be a little too much for me. Has anyone tried the Flat '50 bridge with a piledriver neck? Or should I just get one or the other in a calibrated set?

As for our sound, thnk early Helmet or Biohazard with a little Alice in Chains. I play through a Fender Machete.

[PhilKing]

I use a Piledriver with a Slowhand Strat neck (I routed out the pickguard and body to fit).  I also have the Flat 50 and Flat 52 sets.  Are you going for a maple or rosewood neck?  I have the flat 52 in rosewood and the 50 in maple, and I think that's how I like them best.  I like the more straty sound of the neck pickups in the BG set, while keeping all the tele tone in the bridge.  If you want a more rocky tone though, look at the Brown Sugar set.  Every time I play mine I want to remove the low E string!  It gets the perfect Brown Sugar tele tone.

[sincspecv]

Definitely a maple neck. While the strat pu in the neck is tempting, I really like the sound of a Tele neck pickup. That and I have every intention of going with a 4-way switch. My yardbirds can do rock very well, but I need something with a little more umph. Not quite metal but higher gain than traditional rock. Its kind of hard to put into words the sound I'm going for.

[Telerocker]

With a maple neck and a highgainamp the BG50's are a good choice. They have enough meat for serious riffing and soloing but also that nice blackguard vintage vibe to it.

[sincspecv]

My main concern with the BG set is the neck pu. I like to use the neck pu for single note rhythms and I'm worried the high gain will just muddy it up and it will just sound like mush.

[Telerocker]

My main concern with the BG set is the neck pu. I like to use the neck pu for single note rhythms and I'm worried the high gain will just muddy it up and it will just sound like mush.

In that case you could think about a BG52-neck, which is a bit leaner and strattier. 
You could send the BKP a mail of give them a call what they think about that.
Btw, I have the old BG50-set, from times BKP offered only that Blackguard-set. It's the equivalent of the current BG52-set.

[GuitarIv]

I'll just leave this here...

BKP Piledriver - Metal

[Dave Sloven]

I really like that clip!

I believe it's tuned to drop C#

[sincspecv]

That clip makes me forget why I even considered the BG set. Maybe I should just get two guitars; one for the piledrivers and one for the flat 50s. If only the better half would be okay with that.

[Telerocker]

Both are very good pickups, the Piledrivers just sound more modern.

[GuitarIv]

That clip makes me forget why I even considered the BG set. Maybe I should just get two guitars; one for the piledrivers and one for the flat 50s. If only the better half would be okay with that.

And that my friend is the so called Gear Acquisition Syndrome that comes included in the box with the purchase of BKP pickups  :lol: