Bare Knuckle Pickups: Flat '50 vs. '55 Stagger Telecaster Bridge P'ups скачать в хорошем качестве

Bare Knuckle Pickups: Flat '50 vs. '55 Stagger Telecaster Bridge P'ups

Welcome to Perky’s Analog Gear Demos! Please subscribe :-) I'm a huge fan of Bare Knuckle Pickups and run their products in a lot of my guitars. Not only do their pickups sound absolutely incredible, but their customer service is top-notch and they really care about what they make & how they make it. Every pickup is handmade, handwound and tailored for each individual player. I once ordered a single pickup to pair with another already in the guitar - they called me up within 5 minutes of placing the order to say that the thicker chrome cover I wanted would slightly reduce the real-world output of the pickup, and asked me whether I'd like them to wind it slightly hotter to compensate for that. That's the level of detail & care that goes into making these things. Plus, they're based not too far away from me here in the South West of England. Keep it local whenever you can, people... My white 1996 Japanese Telecaster has had a pair of their Blackguard '55 Stagger pickups in it for a couple of years now. The neck pickup has always been great but as time has gone on, I've found the bridge pickup to be slightly too thin in the low end and slightly too spiky in the upper mids for my tastes. On re-reading their website, they say that the '55 Stagger best suits rosewood fingerboards and is very upper-mid focussed. Yep, I probably chose the wrong one...!! I decided to swap it out for a Flat '50 bridge pickup to pair with the existing neck pickup. I chose this because it has a higher output (10.9kΩ, up from 6.8kΩ), is better suited to maple fretboard Teles and has a fatter tone rather than the focus in the upper mids. This is a video comparing the two. I've only been playing the new pickup for one evening but already think it's a far better option for this guitar. The change in feel caused by the extra compression of a hotter pickup is taking a little getting used to, but the fatter low end and less fizzy breakup when going into an overdrive pedal is much more to my taste. But what do you think? Did I make the right choice? Comment below! Amp is a Hughes & Kettner Puretone, recorded with a simple SM57 and an sE Electronics RNR1 Ribbon. www.joeperkins.co.uk jp@joeperkins.co.uk