Bk crawler

[ninetta82]

what do you think about a crawler for the bridge in a start (alder body, has)? what types of sounds you can get?

[littleredguitars2]

thats one of the more ideal situations for a crawler. its on the darker side. check these out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7-oqwybMvk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUkBqHIB4I

[Telerocker]

I have a Crawler in a swampash strat. Sounds like a big PAF with more compression of course, but still enough pickattack. Highs are round, but the topend is not dull in a strat. There's enough cut. This is not the tightest pickup in the BKP-range, but tight enough for me. It does everything from big cleans to hardrock and early metal. The Crawler growls like a bear when pushed. And your solotones keep weight above the 12th fret. The Crawler splits very well (I have a nice F-quack on the fourth position) en cleans up fine.

[Kiichi]

Telerocker said it, lovely PU in such a guitar. The highs are musically rounded but present, the mids deliver character and growl a plenty and the bass might not be tight by BKP standards, but if you know those standards you are aware that not being tight by those standards does not mean flubby.
Seriously, that growl and character is amazing. Best bridge for cleans I have tried ever, splits better than anything else. From clean over blues to mid gain rock it is in the absolute comfort zone and will deliver with more gusto than one can think. Can also go high gain with a more classic feel. Here I canīt totally comment since the guitar I have them in has more weight than a strat, but in a strat I see no issue with anything we consider somewhat old school.

[Lucas]

Crawler bridge is immensely covered in the following thread (Crawler mostly starts on the 2nd page).
https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31081.0

Enjoy, it`s one of the best (if not the best :D) reviews with tons of extremely precise information.

[ninetta82]

now i have a rebel yell In my start hss and it sound good bit for the future i'm curious to try other bridge pick- up; for nos i'm curious about crawler and holydiver... Do you know other bk bridge pick up that go well with the strato for rock blues,Rock, hard Rock , heavy metal and however versatile enought?

[Telerocker]

now i have a rebel yell In my start hss and it sound good bit for the future i'm curious to try other bridge pick- up; for nos i'm curious about crawler and holydiver... Do you know other bk bridge pick up that go well with the strato for rock blues,Rock, hard Rock , heavy metal and however versatile enought?

I think you can't go wrong with either the Holy Diver of the Crawler. The HD sounds more modern and is tighter, the Crawler has some PAF-dna, but sounds badass in strats. The Crawler handles blues, rock and hardrock and some metal, The Diver is better in the metaldepartment, yet does great hardrocktones too. Choice is a matter of taste.

[Slartibartfarst42]

As there's already a link to a thread where I compared the Holydiver to the Crawler in a great deal of detail, you can simply read my thoughts there  :D

[Telerocker]

As there's already a link to a thread where I compared the Holydiver to the Crawler in a great deal of detail, you can simply read my thoughts there  :D

The OP should read that and take his time since your reviews are - for the benefit of all forummembers - extensive and detailed! 

[darkandrew]

I may have a set going soon but unfortunately they are 50mm standard spaced and not "f" spaced.

[darkandrew]

Alternatively I may move them into my Fender Showmaster (it has slightly narrower bridge spacing than most other Fenders and is bang in the middle between standard and "F" spacing). I just wondered though, has anybody tried a set of crawlers in a basswood superstrat with a floating trem (not Floyd Rose), maple neck and rosewood fret board - I can't find any reference to them and this combination in the thread hi-lighted above. I've always thought of the guitar is being quite neutral sounding but that just could be because all my other guitars have mahogany bodies of one sort or another.

[darkandrew]

OK, just transplanted the Crawlers from my ESP Eclipse (mahogany body / maple cap, mahogany set-neck, rosewood fret board) to my Fender Showmaster (Basswood body with Fender floating trem, maple set-neck, rosewood fret board) and what a difference! I used to scoff at people that said that wood types, etc, changed the tone (I used to think it was 99% to do with the pickups) but the Crawlers in this guitar just make me realise what a poor match they were with the Eclipse. Where as in the Eclipse they were as smooth as Lionel Richie in a velvet jacket, in the Showmaster they absolutely roar - and they are definitely staying put in there (as long as I can come to terms with having zebra pickups in an all black guitar!). So in answer to my own question as to whether Crawlers sound OK in a basswood guitar guitar? Yes, they do.

[darkbluemurder]

Indeed Crawlers - especially the bridge model - are very sensitive to the guitars they're in. In my swamp ash bodied guitar they were simply too bassy. In the Les Paul the bridge model sounded very good but flattened the dynamics of that guitar too much. But in the PRS Custom it simply roars, and unless I sell the guitar (highly unlikely) it will stay.

Cheers Stephan

[Slartibartfarst42]

The Crawler bridge is AWESOME. I certainly love mine and it's become my 'go to' pickup for most situations. If you don't like the zebra design, ask BKP about rewinding it with matched bobbins. I know they'll do it and I think that the cost is about half of a new pickup.

[Telerocker]

Indeed Crawlers - especially the bridge model - are very sensitive to the guitars they're in. In my swamp ash bodied guitar they were simply too bassy. In the Les Paul the bridge model sounded very good but flattened the dynamics of that guitar too much. But in the PRS Custom it simply roars, and unless I sell the guitar (highly unlikely) it will stay.

Cheers Stephan

This. The Crawler is the ideal pickup to beef up a bright guitar and round out the topend. Excels in most (swampash) ash and alder guitars like strats. Most of the time to smooth and round for mahogany based setneck guitars, thought brigther PRS's benefit from the weighty midrange and dimed back topend of the Crawler. I have a bolt on all mahogany Saint Blues and love the Mules in that one. The Crawler would smoother it, I'm afraid.