Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

[TwilightOdyssey]

This isn't my official review of the new pups I installed into my TOC guitar (The Twilight Odyssey Custom), but here are my initial impressions I just got from wailing on the guitar for a good 10 minutes after I got the bridge level and the strings to pitch. Just writing this now to document my first impressions while they are still fresh in my mind, and see if the differ after I've lived with the pups for a bit, and the guitar has 'settled' a little more.

This is the guitar:

It started life as an ESP Kamikaze 4. New neck, new hardware, and new pups went into this rebuild. Body is 1 piece maple, neck is 1 piece rock maple with birdseye maple fingerboard.

INITIAL IMPRESSIONS
Bridge Pickup: Miracle Man with Nailbomb Cammo Cover.
Huge sounding. Very articulate. Can really hear what the maple is doing now, tonally. Reminds me of Back For The Attack era DOKKEN. Very bright (glad I got a covered pup). Very high resolution, every nuance is preserved. Great sustain.

Neck Pickup: Irish Tour with Green Cover.
Pure vintage tone. Bell-like. Eats the my rail pups and for breakfast. Buttery fatness. Suprisingly little volume drop from the Miracle Man. Best single coil I've ever owned.

I will have to live with these pups for a few days before I post anything conclusive ...

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Ya gonna play hockey with that guitar too, to? :laugh2:

glad you like those pickups man.......oddly enough, Thats exaclty what i GUESSED they'd sound like........am i good or what?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Ya gonna play hockey with that guitar too, to? :laugh2:

Enough out of you!
I thought you got the mockery out of your system when you heckled me through AIM!

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

WOW...sounds like so far so good! I really hope those work out for you...they look cool, thats for sure! Keep us posted, I would like to know if you change your mind after a while.

What Duncan is the Miracle Man closest too, that you have used? I just want an idea of the overall tone and output.

 

[wixomwhat]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Can't wait for your full review TO.

Your guitar looks great too.

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Enough out of you!
I thought you got the mockery out of your system when you heckled me through AIM!

:laugh2: sorry..........THAT is out of my system.........I could go on for days on how poor you make me feel.....but i won't, cause im nice like that....

o BTW whats mockery?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

What Duncan is the Miracle Man closest too, that you have used? I just want an idea of the overall tone and output.

I really hate to say this, but none that I have ever experienced. I really need to live with the pups for a few days, and of course take the guitar to practice Wednesday night (9pm in the Ultra Room @ Ultrasound NYC, if anyone wants to stop by ... ); then I can begin to get a more firm grasp on the sound.

I guess if I had to choose a pup, for immediate comparisons, it would proably be the Duncan Distortion. I mean, the tone I'm getting is a dead ringer for the tone Lynch got on Back For The Attack, and that's through my VG88. Tomorrow it goes through the Knucklehead and JCM800 . The sound clips coming up will help everyone to make their own decisions, as well.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

mock·er·y =
a specific act of ridicule or derision.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

I really hate to say this, but none that I have ever experienced. I really need to live with the pups for a few days, and of course take the guitar to practice Wednesday night (9pm in the Ultra Room @ Ultrasound NYC, if anyone wants to stop by ... ); then I can begin to get a more firm grasp on the sound.

I guess if I had to choose a pup, for immediate comparisons, it would proably be the Duncan Distortion. I mean, the tone I'm getting is a dead ringer for the tone Lynch got on Back For The Attack, and that's through my VG88. Tomorrow it goes through the Knucklehead and JCM800 . The sound clips coming up will help everyone to make their own decisions, as well.

Im curious...what does your rig consist of...what i mean is what do you play through?

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

mock·er·y =
a specific act of ridicule or derision.

you welcome!!!oh and I would stop by your practice dingy, but I dont want you to play hockey all over my face and then make me feel poor!!! :laugh2:

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Can't wait for your full review TO.

Your guitar looks great too.

Thanx!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Im curious...what does your rig consist of...what i mean is what do you play through?

MAIN RIG is:
Fulltone Full-Drive 2 into either a 2000 Rivera Knucklehead K100 or 1985 Marshall JCM800 head (50W). Fulltone Fat Boost through the effects loop as a solo boost.
Top cab is a Rivera slant 4x12. Bottom cab is a Fane loaded HiWatt 4x12.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

MAIN RIG is:
Fulltone Full-Drive 2 into either a 2000 Rivera Knucklehead K100 or 1985 Marshall JCM800 head (50W). Fulltone Fat Boost through the effects loop as a solo boost.
Top cab is a Rivera slant 4x12. Bottom cab is a Fane loaded HiWatt 4x12.

OK...when you said you werwe gonna try the new pups through th Rivera and the 800, i go the idea that you played through both, and that's a lot of amp!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

OK...when you said you werwe gonna try the new pups through th Rivera and the 800, i go the idea that you played through both, and that's a lot of amp!

Sometimes I do, when I use a Radial Headbone VT head switcher or Morely ABY ... mwahahaha! :evil: :laugh2:

 

[Willis]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

I bet that whole rig sounds awesome. You should post a Dokken clip.

That's an awesome guitar. I'm thinking of getting something similar (minus the paint) since I'm also a big Lynch fan. Is a maple (it's maple, right?) body with a maple neck and fretboard too bright? Would it be too bright with a Screamin Demon?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

I bet that whole rig sounds awesome. You should post a Dokken clip.

I plan to

That's an awesome guitar. I'm thinking of getting something similar (minus the paint) since I'm also a big Lynch fan.

Thank you. Is a Lynch guitar a Lynch guitar without the crazy paint job? Hmmm ... that's kinda Zen!!

Is a maple (it's maple, right?) body with a maple neck and fretboard too bright? Would it be too bright with a Screamin Demon?

No and No.

 

[Willis]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Thank you. Is a Lynch guitar a Lynch guitar without the crazy paint job? Hmmm ... that's kinda Zen!!

I might see if I can get the yellow tiger paint. I need a job in the summer or something.

If you don't mind me asking, could you tell me how much the neck costed? I really like the J Frog design, though I'm guessing it will be too expensive for me. I'm probably going to use a Charvel Model neck on mine, but I don't know yet. (I'm also using a Kahler, so it's more of a Lynch-inspired guitar )

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

I'm too lazy to look it up. Do you know the resistance values of those 2 pickups?

Also, did you happen to see that new Morley George Lynch 'Tripler' that allows you to switch between 3 amps, or combinations of them? Pretty cool looking switch box!

 

[Brow]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

I'm too lazy to look it up. Do you know the resistance values of those 2 pickups?

Miracle Man = 17.5K approx
Irish Tour = 6.5K approx

Those Irish Tour's sound like they're great pups. I'm thinking of going HSS on the Browcaster and I'm almost definitely having Irish Tours in the middle and neck

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: Bare Knuckle Miracle Man/Irish Tour ... initial impressions

Holy Crappppppppp