Author Topic: Bare Knuckle equivalent to the Dimebucker. (Read 11282 times)

deg0ey · « **Reply #15 on:** August 23, 2006, 11:17:22 PM »

The thing I found with Dimebag (and maybe it's just my ears) was that he appeared to have no tone...at all.

There was nothing really that musical about his guitar sound, it was just noise - but noise that sounded good :lol: It worked in the context of Pantera, but not a sound I'd want to replicate tbh...

OD-Black_Fire · « **Reply #16 on:** August 24, 2006, 06:03:13 AM »

Exactly. Dime used solid state amps and thrashy pickups for a reason. That's why no one sounds like him.

chrisola · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2006, 08:39:36 AM »

i changed my Dimebucker for a ceramic warpig... the Warpig is definitely more focused and toney... the Dime seemed to have more gain and was pretty trashy sounding..not a bad pickup, just highly specialised (as you would expect)

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #18 on:** August 24, 2006, 01:20:49 PM »

I'm not saying Dimebucker because of Dime funnily enough!

The guys from Kalmah use them and in Trivium, and i like those tones.

Twinfan · « **Reply #19 on:** August 24, 2006, 04:10:58 PM »

Didn't Nuno Bettencourt in his Extreme days use the Bill Lawrence 500 in his custom Washburns???

gingataff · « **Reply #20 on:** August 24, 2006, 04:27:38 PM »

Yes and the current production Washburn N series use a L500XL.

dave_mc · « **Reply #21 on:** August 24, 2006, 06:28:51 PM »

^ but aren't they the massproduced, and not handwound, ones? you know, after that big bill lawrence lawsuit thingy...

um.

gingataff · « **Reply #22 on:** August 25, 2006, 02:15:52 AM »

Almost certainly, the new models have SD single coils too, I don't think you want to mix a nice handwound pup with those. Imagine the disappointment when you flick the selector switch.

dave_mc · « **Reply #23 on:** August 25, 2006, 01:35:14 PM »

^ aye. to be honest, with a lot of the pickups that are put in guitars, I'm not so certain that sound is the major concern, lol. I guess that bill and becky just couldn't make enough for them, so they had to go with the machine made versions.

chrisola · « **Reply #24 on:** August 25, 2006, 07:32:09 PM »

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^ but aren't they the massproduced, and not handwound, ones? you know, after that big bill lawrence lawsuit thingy...

(UN)Interesting point: there have been huge arguments over 'which is best' and 'which did Dime use'..

Turns out (i'll find the link again if anyone REALLY wants to see it) at a guitar clinic in 93 as Dime is talking about his guitar, someone asks 'where did you get the Bill Lawrence from?' and dime replies 'STEW MAC DUDE'

Thus putting the endless Becky\Bill 'handmade' vs Stew Mac 'copy mass produced cr@p' for Dime tones debate to rest..ahh those poor HC form peeps :lol:

dave_mc · « **Reply #25 on:** August 25, 2006, 11:07:21 PM »

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^ but aren't they the massproduced, and not handwound, ones? you know, after that big bill lawrence lawsuit thingy...

(UN)Interesting point: there have been huge arguments over 'which is best' and 'which did Dime use'..

Turns out (i'll find the link again if anyone REALLY wants to see it) at a guitar clinic in 93 as Dime is talking about his guitar, someone asks 'where did you get the Bill Lawrence from?' and dime replies 'STEW MAC DUDE'

Thus putting the endless Becky\Bill 'handmade' vs Stew Mac 'copy mass produced cr@p' for Dime tones debate to rest..ahh those poor HC form peeps :lol:

aye, but then you could get into the "does dime have good tone?" argument, lol.

Good point, though. though, being dime, he did tend to endorse everything, it's possible he went with the stewmac ones to get more royalties or something (dunno, I'm just throwing it out there, it's not a fact or anything)...

:)

ant · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:41:08 PM »

Ar! Dimebag had ace tone! Personally i'd opt for warpigs, tight bass response with harmonics jumping off the fretboard! Sweetness! :D Warpigs are heavy as hell, so perfect for ya metal tone dude, but it has a better clean sound than the miricle man if ya wanna mellow down