JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Yeah, a quick glance at the SD site shows just how many options are available.... and that's just from one manufacturer.
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Greg_L
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Yeah and there's Dimarzio, and billions of smaller boutique manufacturers...and of course the big guitar companies themselves. There's just too many to worry about IMO. I just stick with the common stuff that works. Gibson, SD, and Dimarzio. I hear Bare Knuckles are real good, but I've never tried them personally.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Yeah, I just shortlisted about half a dozen humbuckers that I knew guitarists I like used, listened to a bunch of sound samples, made my choice and I'm happy with it... bit of guesswork on the neck pickup though - most guitarists I like never use the neck-pickup!
Its the Bare Knuckle War Pig everyone goes on about - I've heard loads of samples and it sounds like a typically hot humbucker with plenty of brightness. Never actually played on one myself though.
Its the Bare Knuckle War Pig everyone goes on about - I've heard loads of samples and it sounds like a typically hot humbucker with plenty of brightness. Never actually played on one myself though.
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Greg_L
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Did you know I have my own pickup? I do. It's called "The Fat Pig". Lol. It's really not fat at all. It's a pretty hot ceramic single coil for my Hallmark 60 Custom. The Hallmark guy made it just for me.
It sounds awesome but it's noisy as hell. I might put it back in the guitar though.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Did you know I have my own pickup? I do. It's called "The Fat Pig". Lol. It's really not fat at all. It's a pretty hot ceramic single coil for my Hallmark 60 Custom. The Hallmark guy made it just for me.
It sounds awesome but it's noisy as hell. I might put it back in the guitar though.
I didn't. Sounds cool though - Its gonna seem noisy if you're used to humbuckers.
You gotta admit, the "Warpig" is one of the coolest looking pickups ever!
https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/images/product/warpig.jpg
21.5kO though - I've always liked hot pickups but that's taking the piss a bit.
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Greg_L
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It's not even that. It's noisy compared to single coils.
That's hideous, and way too hot for me.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
haha, I think it looks like something that's been stripped off a bit of Victorian machinery - Its probably good for nothing else except heavy as fuck modern metal though.
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Greg_L
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I bet it sounds exactly how it looks.
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Greg_L
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I just checked their site. It seems I'd like "The Mule" and the "Riff Raff". Both have good sound clips.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
It's a pretty tidy well organised site and you don't get option paralysis like you do with the SD site. I'm not gonna be looking for a humbucker for a few months yet though. I'm enjoying playing and recording with my main guitar too much to do work on my old strat. I'm gonna start by transplanting my Ibanez V8 and Washburn pickup into it first just to see how they sound.
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Greg_L
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You mean that no-name cardboard body Strat thing you have? Or do you have an actual Strat?
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
I had a Veleno guitar .... all aluminum with the frets actually machined onto the aluminum neck/fretboard with a clam shell body of aluminum.
Anyways .... it had the hottest p'ups I've ever run into.
They were so hot that you basically couldn't get clean tones at all ..... no matter what you ran it into it overdrove it.
One of the many, many, many guitars I wish I had back.
Anyways .... it had the hottest p'ups I've ever run into.
They were so hot that you basically couldn't get clean tones at all ..... no matter what you ran it into it overdrove it.
One of the many, many, many guitars I wish I had back.
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Greg_L
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Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
yep, except mine was anodized black ... p'ups were uncovered too.
And I don't remember having the two little mini toggles either although I'm not 100% on that.
It may have had them but I don't think so.
On the back, around the perimeter, were allen head screws ..... .... maybe 10-12 and if you took them out the back half of the clam shell came off.
The aluminum was machined away so it was hollow with strengthening ribs in arranged in a compartment type pattern.
And I don't remember having the two little mini toggles either although I'm not 100% on that.
It may have had them but I don't think so.
On the back, around the perimeter, were allen head screws ..... .... maybe 10-12 and if you took them out the back half of the clam shell came off.
The aluminum was machined away so it was hollow with strengthening ribs in arranged in a compartment type pattern.
Tadpui
Well-known member
Do you ever have those times when you play your favorite guitar through your favorite amp, playing your favorite songs, and you hit that moment of nirvana? That feeling that reminds you of why you spent all that money, all that time, all that sweat and all of those callouses?
Yeah, I had one of those nights tonight. My ears might stop ringing sometime tomorrow. Damn you Jim Marshall, Orville Gibson, and Leo Fender. Also, bless you.
Yeah, I had one of those nights tonight. My ears might stop ringing sometime tomorrow. Damn you Jim Marshall, Orville Gibson, and Leo Fender. Also, bless you.
JDOD
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Greg_L
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Lol, that sounds pretty awesome. The frets machined into the neck sounds pretty amazing to me considering those things were probably made before CNC machines, right?
Haha awesome. It never gets old.
What you mean, no name! It's an "encore" made in India.
But yeah, that thing.
Lol. So is that you test mule? Is that thing even playable anymore? Didn't you leave it in an attack for 20 years?
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Yeah, I'm kinda using it as a test mule. Its got a slightly weird shaped body, and odd scale length/neck pocket shape so I'm gonna have to keep the old neck.
I'm gonna buy relatively cheap neck and middle single coils and whip the V8 out of my Ibanez - combined with some new pots/5 way. This is more of a learning project for me really as I've never completely re-wired a guitar before.
If, and its a big if, I can get it to play well I'll re-fret it (more learning) with some jumbos.
Yeah, its been in an attic for a long time - I got my Ibanez in 98 and have barely played on it since. It was mouldy when I got it down and stripped it a few weeks ago.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
I get that quite a lot at the moment... I seriously love this guitar...a lot... (its getting a bit sad actually). I probably played on it for about 4 hours after work yesterday evening. Just jamming away, coming up with little licks and phrases - some of which will probably make it into that instrumental track I posted up the first fragment off a couple of weeks ago.
Was only playing through my old Peavy Bandit on a slight crunch tone, but it was just sounding good - I'm gonna bring a mic back with me next week and record some tones from it to see how it sounds.
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Greg_L
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I know it's all about guitars for most people. I know guys that literally have 20-30 guitars and just two or three amps. My own bandmates have four or five high end Gibsons and Fenders, each. One guy has one amp, the other has two amps. But they have lots of guitars and that's where their focus is. Legendary players have warehouses full of guitars.
It's still mostly about amps for me. Maybe I just don't get it or I'm just not good enough to really appreciate the finer details of a guitar. Obviously I understand the differences between my Hallmark Mosrite and the Les Pauls. I know my Angus SG and the P-90 SG are totally different animals. But the magic is in the amps for me. I get them. My buddies think I'm nuts. I'd rather have a room full of amps and just a few very select guitars.
It's still mostly about amps for me. Maybe I just don't get it or I'm just not good enough to really appreciate the finer details of a guitar. Obviously I understand the differences between my Hallmark Mosrite and the Les Pauls. I know my Angus SG and the P-90 SG are totally different animals. But the magic is in the amps for me. I get them. My buddies think I'm nuts. I'd rather have a room full of amps and just a few very select guitars.