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BloodMountain

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« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2007, 12:35:35 PM »
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it's here now... even the looks are getting me excited!!! it's my first BKP, and i know what to expect  :D
i need to get it installed.......

Ohhh i didn't know - congrats. Can you not install it yourself?

thanks  :D

you see, i have never made a pickup change (i'm young) so i will need my dad to teach me... and also tell me where he keeps his soldering iron!

i have also not changed the strings on a floyd rose before (same reason) so i will need help with that.... must take ages though  :roll:

yeah i'll post a review and pics when it is in.

back to the topic, i hope you enjoy your MM Roobubba!
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« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2007, 12:38:20 PM »
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Many thanks everyone for your help! I have now ordered a Miracle Man Bridge pickup!


/me tries to contain his excitement

I'll pop back to let you know how it goes later on (useful for other people searching later, as I've found during this search)

Roo


Good choice. I think it'll suit you well.

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« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2007, 06:57:54 PM »
Wanted to follow up this thread and thank everyone for their advice. I got the Miracle Man on my doorstep on Saturday morning (having put the order through during the day on Tuesday), and fitted it later that day. I've just had a play around with it, trying to adjust the height and so on.

This pickup is unbelievably tight. The INF2 that I had in before wasn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, but this simply blows the old one away from a tightness perspective.

One query though, how much difference in "output" should I be expecting? So far it doesn't seem any louder on the same settings, and it's a little bit closer to the strings than the old pickup was. I've not played on either active or non-stock pickups, so I've no idea what "high output" really translates to...

Either way, the sound is superb, and really that's all that matters!

I was going to do a quick recording of it, but then I heard Tim's clip of the Miracle Man and thought... naa. :)

Cheers again, all, I'll stick a pic of it in the pics topic - it looks lovely!! :)

One happy and not confused shopper :)

Roo

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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2007, 09:01:37 PM »
Cool  8)

The MM is pretty up there, power wise, but nothing insane. The INF's are quite powerfull too.

More powerfull pickups, not just talking about BK here, will tend to overdrive your preamp sooner (duh!), have more compression, less dynamics but a more focussed, attacking sound, and its easier to get harmonics and legatos out of them. Some bad ones, stock and bigger brands included, get pretty muddy too, because wire attenuates high frequencies prefferentially, so the longer the wire, the more lows you get compared to highs. Actives (EMG, duncan, though they cant seem to figure out how to do it very well: live wires are some of the worst pickups I've ever heard) and scatterwinding (BK) are solutions to this, with their own additional tonal bi-products.

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« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2007, 11:47:53 PM »
The INF pickups might have every bit of the output of the Miracle Man. Output is easy. You could give me some wire, pole pieces and magnets and I could wind you a very high output pickup. It wouldn't sound very good but it would be loud.

What Tim does is make pickups that  sound good. BKP have great clarity even in the highest power models. So the point of the Miracle Man isn't being the loudest it's going after a specific tone. In this case a very Zakk Wylde type of sound. Of course it does many other things very well. :D