Author Topic: nailbomb and mississippi queen combo: confused! (Read 17279 times)

Neemo · « **Reply #30 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:06:05 PM »

It's very difficult to convince someone new to BKP's of their superior quality. You'll just have to try them yourself to see that there's no hype here. The difference in the playing feel/tone/definition is just massive.

Sifu Ben · « **Reply #31 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:08:17 PM »

Yeah, if I was going to be in a "need to play everything" sort of situation I'd probably lean more towards the Crawler, Cold sweat or Rebel Yell.
The guy who advised you to get an SD Jazz had a point, it IS a very good clean pickup and gives good definition of notes when performing technical passages with gain. HOWEVER, it lacks balls in a big way, and will not do hard rock upwards rhythm and will strugggle to do high gain bridge leads.

jt · « **Reply #32 on:** November 27, 2006, 09:35:57 PM »

:D It`s also fair to say that some of us come from large circles of musicians. This means we`ve been exposed to many different brands of guitars, P/U`s, amps etc.

My preferance for BK`s is based on the evidance of my own ears. I`ve heard Duncans, invaders, 59`s, pearly`s, Jb`s all in the same guitar & the only Duncan i rated was the SH5 Custom. Now i didn`t own the guitar that had used/tried all of these Duncans [ Washburn Chicago ] but i used said guitar for recordings & gigs so i think it qualifies me to have an opinion.

My mate made similar decisions based on the fact that i had DiMarzio`s in most of my guitars, & he used to use mine to play with as well. Just for the record i have personnaly stated on this forum in the past that i regard Dimarzio super distortion P/U as a bench mark pup. That for my money all other pups who`ever makes `em are judged by.

:D 8)

nick_24589 · « **Reply #33 on:** November 28, 2006, 04:24:07 PM »

putting aside the guitar college becuase i have a strat i use for that, im using my other guitar for personal use and for music i want to play. im looking to get a heavy rocking sound at times eg. i was advised the naibomb to get some nice harmonics, great distortion but not thrash metal or anything like that, at the max i go drop d and i was advised the mississippi queen for the more easy going stuff i like to play eg chili peppers and when i use my synth and delay effects. it sounds like it they should work together well, but im hesitant because i don't want to spend £200 roughly and realise its not exactly what i wanted/expected

FELINEGUITARS · « **Reply #34 on:** November 28, 2006, 05:00:52 PM »

Quote from: jt

:D It`s also fair to say that some of us come from large circles of musicians. This means we`ve been exposed to many different brands of guitars, P/U`s, amps etc.

My preferance for BK`s is based on the evidance of my own ears. I`ve heard Duncans, invaders, 59`s, pearly`s, Jb`s all in the same guitar & the only Duncan i rated was the SH5 Custom. Now i didn`t own the guitar that had used/tried all of these Duncans [ Washburn Chicago ] but i used said guitar for recordings & gigs so i think it qualifies me to have an opinion.

My mate made similar decisions based on the fact that i had DiMarzio`s in most of my guitars, & he used to use mine to play with as well. Just for the record i have personally stated on this forum in the past that i regard Dimarzio super distortion P/U as a bench mark pup. That for my money all other pups who`ever makes `em are judged by.

:D 8)

Yup that counts as personal experience JT hence your opinions are well informed, and more so that your observations are comparitive and subjective. You can say this pickup was too nasal sounding to me or whatever and we all benefit from you sharing your experience

I was just against the "Brand X are shite and they kill kittens, so use BKP instead!" type posting as it doesn't help others make informed choices

jt · « **Reply #35 on:** November 28, 2006, 08:20:22 PM »

:D You mean Seymour kills kittens !!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wasn`t having a go mate mearly stating for the record my own background as to why i have my opinions. I think its good that we all have opinions that we share here in by & large friendly terms. Its what makes this forum such a pleasure to be a member of.

:D 8)

nick_24589 · « **Reply #36 on:** November 29, 2006, 10:36:56 AM »

so i should i go for the nailnomb in the bridhe and mississippi queen in the neck?

Sifu Ben · « **Reply #37 on:** November 29, 2006, 01:07:24 PM »

If you want to play muse then yes.

gingataff · « **Reply #38 on:** November 30, 2006, 04:41:09 AM »

OK, as promised a clean Nailbomb clip is now in the Players forum:
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=78141#78141

Bob Johnson · « **Reply #39 on:** November 30, 2006, 08:53:43 AM »

Quote from: nick_24589

so i should i go for the nailnomb in the bridhe and mississippi queen in the neck?

I'm building a guitar right now that has a Nailbomb and a Mississipi Queen (it also has a sustainer and a piezo bridge) specifically to get the Matt Bellamy / Muse sound.

The Nail bomb is a very versatile pickup in my view which, on my amp at least, gives a really nice crunch overdrive flat out and beautiful articulate cleans with the vol just rolled off ever so slightly.

As Jonathan said there are lots of good products out there and I use a lot of them at one time or another but the Nailbomb was the first BKP I ever used and I have to say it was the first pickup in years that I was totally impressed with.

If you want what is generally recognised as the muse sound (Matt does use other combinations as well) then that's the right combo for you.
Cheers,

nick_24589 · « **Reply #40 on:** November 30, 2006, 11:30:17 AM »

ok thanks for the help :D good luck with your guitar and thanks for the clean nailbomb clip, sounded really nice. hopefully il be able to wire it up so i can use my 5 way selector switch but im going to go for both the pickups in chrome :) thanks guys

Bob Johnson · « **Reply #41 on:** November 30, 2006, 11:49:28 AM »

Quote from: nick_24589

ok thanks for the help :D good luck with your guitar and thanks for the clean nailbomb clip, sounded really nice. hopefully il be able to wire it up so i can use my 5 way selector switch but im going to go for both the pickups in chrome :) thanks guys

If you have a Strat style 5 way it might be worth swapping it for a Tele 3 way to give you 1) neck 2) both 3) bridge you can then put the coil tap on a pull-push switch on the tone or vol pot. It's a simple arrange ment but very versatile.

If you need any help with wiring diagrams gimme a shout.

nick_24589 · « **Reply #42 on:** November 30, 2006, 12:06:06 PM »

if you could give me some sort of diagram tat would be great, i know how it all works inside the guitar, so a diagram would be real yeasy to follow thanks alot :D

Bob Johnson · « **Reply #43 on:** November 30, 2006, 06:36:20 PM »

Quote from: nick_24589

if you could give me some sort of diagram tat would be great, i know how it all works inside the guitar, so a diagram would be real yeasy to follow thanks alot :D

Better than that, check this out. Lots of wiring options here.

http://www.guitartechcraig.com/techwire/diagindx.htm

nick_24589 · « **Reply #44 on:** November 30, 2006, 08:01:20 PM »

thats excellent mate, easy to understand aswell. thanks i really apprecate it