My favourite feature about BKP is...

[GuitarIv]

Hey everyone,

just wanted to share a pleasent experience I made today and hear your opinions and findings. After playing EMG equipped guitars for 2 months (gonna get the BKP treatment but I'm broke right now) I decided to grab my Jackson Dinky with my Painkiller/Coldsweat combo today and fool around a bit. I struck the first few chords and was instantly reminded of what got me hooked on BKP in the first place: that clarity and string seperation.

I guess it took my ears some time to be abstinent from them Knuckles to hear that difference in sound again. Don't get me wrong, I like EMGs and they have their purpose, but compared to my Painkiller the 81 sounds like a mushy mess on chords and that certainly means something.

So I wanted to hear your favourite features with BKPs. For me it's the clarity, the string seperation and the dynamics. 

Cheers!

[Kiichi]

I can give you a plus one on that as my favorite "technical" feature.

My absolute favorite thing though is a bit more abstract. You know how you pick up certain guitars and they influence your playing? Certain songs come to mind, and whatever you play you play it a little differently with that guitar. You put some in, and get some back. Like a conversation. I have a similar thing with a well placed BKP. The way they sound is not just something that comes out of the speakers, it feeds back into the playing.
I guess part of that is what you say too, how they are players pickups, giving you the chance to fully hear what you are playing, not masking it, making you more aware. But even in the same guitar a Stockholm makes me play very differently than a RY.

BKPs seem to not just be some part in the chain, but part of the instrument.

[darkbluemurder]

BKPs seem to not just be some part in the chain, but part of the instrument.

I agree - that is a result of a good match between the guitar and the pickup.

Cheers Stephan

[Cider]

I simply love the amazing customer service of BKP. Every single time I deal with him, Ben wows me of how much he cares about the customer and product and goes through great lengths to make sure I have all my questions answered before making my purchase. Timmy has been great help in helping me with wiring diagrams as well.

It also helps that BKP pickups are amazing. I have a set of MQ in custom P90 size, an A-Bomb (bridge), an AM (bridge), and a Trilogy Suites (neck). They all sound *great*

I think BKP pickups spoiled me though. I got too used to my 2 guitars (a Cort and a Gibby Double Cutaway) with BKP pickups that when I went to Guitar Center last month to mess around with some stuff for my next purchase, I was so underwhelmed by the stock pickups of every guitar I played with. *sighs*

[38thBeatle]

I always bang on about the tone. A subjective thing but I gig a lot ( 60 a year at least) and my Tele is a good example of the difference BKP's can make. I liked the guitar but tended to use it at a hack at home-often not even plugged in and sad to say, I just saw it in that light. Feeling a bit flush one day and reading about BKP's I decided to upgrade it and in went a set of Country Boys. Beforehand I'd done a brief recording with the guitar to compare it afterwards . Sure enough, it sounded a hell of a lot better but aside from a bit of recording and occasional home noodling. I treated it as a second guitar. One day I opened my case at a gig expecting to pick up my BKP loaded Strat. Shock horror, in my haste I'd picked up the Tele case( identical to its cousin's) and being too far and it being too late for me to go home, I had to use it for a gig. Thereafter it became my gig guitar. My Strat is old and well used and fits like a comfy old pair of shoes hence my preference but the Tele was something else. I was in love and that has remained the case for something like 8 years. The Strat tended to come along as a spare but the Tele sounded so good. A few months ago, I decided to start using the Strat again because, as I said before, it is very nice to play (Feline did a lovely re fret job a few years back btw) and the love affair with the Apaches was rekindled. So now, I use Strat first set and Tele second. The thing I love is the superb tone. Can't be beat and I get a lot of Strat and Tele players asking me so tere must be something going on.

[ericsabbath]

what's best in BKP?
to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzvFNLAnYNw

[GuitarIv]

Hahaha Eric, it's always funny to hear that awkward English Schwarzenegger speaks, especially if you live in Austria like I do 

Nice to see soo much love here, another thing that comes to my mind are the countless aesthetic options, no pickup I own looks soo metal like my black battleworn PK/CS set with allen bolts 

[With Full Distortion]

mine is the AIRY SOund.
that grabbed me by the ears