B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

[UCSDBoy]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

I'm going to replace them with an EMG 85 in the bridge and a Duncan Hot Rails in the neck.

The 85 is an active pickup while the hot rails is passive. While I guess it's not impossible to do this, they do at least require different tone pots, I believe.

 

[Syris]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

Different tone pots eh? EMGs come with those to replace the old ones. Hmm, all my new guitar is going to have is a single tone and single volume control. Im not going have to get my guitar cut up to put an EMG in am I?

 

[UCSDBoy]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

i don't think so - I just don't usually hear about people mixing actives and passives. I think some people have mentioned trying to do that on this board though.

 

[Mephis]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

Different tone pots eh? EMGs come with those to replace the old ones. Hmm, all my new guitar is going to have is a single tone and single volume control. Im not going have to get my guitar cut up to put an EMG in am I?

You won't be able to run it like that.

I believe you could run a volume/volume setup. The passive to one of the volume pots and the active to the other. (Each running seprately to the jack.)

You wouldn't be able to mix them without a little gizmo EMG makes though. (Isn't it like a PATB2 or something like that?)

 

[Syris]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

Hmm, I wonder if Guitar Center carries that little gizmo. I should look up how much it costs.

On the EMG website, they show pictures of different configurations of their pickups. One is HSH, so there are two active pickups with a passive in between. Also there was an HSS configuration, so one active and two passives. How does that work? Does it already have that device installed?

 

[luci]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

My bronze warlock not only sounded better than my platinum pro series, it had way better fret work and great action, and the neck pocket is so tight you can't get a piece of paper in there.

Funny that a $100 guitar demolished a $500 guitar from the same company.


That's why I still own the bronze and I traded the platinum.

I think the stock pickups in the bronze actually even sounded better than the BSDMs in the platinum. Those things are piss horrible. (I've got an EMG-81 in my single pickup/tech-tronic bridge bronze now.)

I had a similar experience with a platinum Beast bridge BDSM pickup sounding very muddy,whilst all the BDSM pickups I came across on bronze warlocks etc sounded absolutely fine..in fact I love their sound and honestly cannot fault them.
I own guitars with S.Duncans (JB,D.Distortion,Dimebucker) as well as one with the Dimarzio,I've also always quite liked these newer Jackson stock pickups but I must say that BDSM are not worse than any of these I've just mentioned,in my opinion.

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[El Dunco]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

I have a Neck Thru Warlock. While the maple top looks incredible, trem is nice and smooth and neck feels really nice (meaty yet comfortable), the stock BDSM pickups were absolutely horrid. Way too muddy for anything I would ever use them for and didn't even do clean nicely. It used to have an EMG 85/89 set (so two 85s and an SA essentially), the EMGs suited another guitar better and the Warlock livened up more with passives (a Dimebucker and a PAF Pro).

Keeping the BDSM pickups is a form of BDSM in itself. Masochism to the highest order.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

Holy thread resurrect batman! Saw some names that I dont think ive seen for 7 years or better.

 

[Letus]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

Get an EMG neck, or, preferably, a Custom Bridge.

 

[Securb]

Re: B.C. Rich stock pickups. Good or crap?

+! I had a similar experience with my B. C. Rich in the 80's the pickup was very muddy and had little definition. I ended up swapping it out for a Bill Lawrence 500XL it made a world of difference. The 70's B. C. Rich's on the other hand from what I remember had tone for days.