motor city pickups?

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I was about to say the same thing. They have one for about ever Bare Knuckle model, just with a variation on the names. :eek13:

I have three sets of Bare Knuckle pickups so it wouldn't be too hard to A/B them to see if they're in the same ballpark. The BKP's are expensive, but worth it. The BKP's wipe the floor with about everything else I've tried so far. And I've tried a few brands in my time.:smack:
 
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i might be on the verge of trying a calibrated pair of "the solution". the descriptions sounds like the BKP miracle man to me.. :6:
 
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I would steer clear of the Motor City pickups. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but......:27:
 
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Wow! Touchy aren't you?:eek13:

Just passing on what I've heard on the street, I won't go in to details, no need for that here.

No need to go all Keyboard Commando on me "dude"!
 
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I bought a custom wound Wrathchild bridge from KlinkDetroit and it smokes! 18+K ceramic/F-spaced. It sounds BRUTAL in my HM Strat. What's up Mucho! Are the cat I was telling about this on MySpace? I had a sparkly pink star for a logo. I got deleted for some reason.
 
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Hey mattleesc

I bought the Wrathchild Bridge. The neck seems pretty cool though. It's hot enough to put in a bridge at 8.5k AL5
 
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MuchoTone said:
Although imitation Can be the sincerest form of flattery,often it is not . . .
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(No need to quote the whole thing, again.)

I don't mean any offence, but thats one of the worst examples of a company trying to defend itself publicly that I've seen in awhile. This was your opportunity to present yourself to us, and the lack of proper grammer, punctuation, and capitalization alone was enough to turn me off to your products.

The content was even worse. Again, I only mean this in the spirit of constructive criticism. If it was me, I'd delete that post before too many others quote you. ;)

Other than that, welcome to the forum. :)

Artie
 
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MuchoTone said:
Constructive criticism is always good!!And well taken,but i wont delete this on the account of anothers opinion?Proper grammer,punctuation,and capitalization alone don't count for ones ability to spin?When the wheel spins full circle, we are still here,doing what we do,,,and people are still pleased with what they hear.Thats what counts,,,Thats what we do.Thankyou for the positive criticism(I had to look at yours,to make sure i was spelling it right!LOL),and thanks for the welcome
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Thats cool. While I'm currently enamored with Duncans, if I ever decide to stray, I'll check you guys out. :)

Artie
 
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MuchoTone said:
Constructive criticism is always good!!And well taken,
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Great then here's some more: Don't sell your self too hard on a forum run by a huge, well respected pickup maker. Your entire audience loves Duncan pickups already, or they wouldn't be here. I'm amazed by your not-so-subtle attempts to plug and sell your pickups in some other threads when clearly no one is asking for advice on what new hand wound to buy.

Spelign, pungchewation. andgramer is generally considered a sign of competency. I realize that's not always true, but at this point you're no longer a passive forum chatter. You're trying to make potential clients think you've got your act together, and you're competent enough to make a good pickup. If your language is anything less than perfect, it amounts to poor marketing.

Finally, your personal attack sealed the deal for me. I wouldn't purchase your pickups at this point. From one sentence, you've responded with a personal attack, including things such as "ignorant, shut your mouth, grow up a little" etc. When you do that you inherently direct others to think that way of you. It's a subtle psychological occurrence. People associate you with those words, not the person they're intended for. So your rant post does more to make you seem like you're the person in need of that advice than the previous one sentence commentator. Your post becomes the focal point of the thread. See how it's already been quoted?

Your posts should read the way you want to be thought of. Have you ever seen a Duncan officer answer a post in your manner? A simple "I'm sorry you feel that way, I feel we make a great pickup. But you obvoiusly haven't tried my pickups, so I'd like to send you..." would have been much more effective.

Good luck.
 
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Hey MuchoTone; Please accept here that I'm truly not trying to "bust your chops", so to speak, but I just took a look at your, (or MCP's), website. It has, unfortunately, some of the same kind of technical nonsense that turns me off to Bill Lawrence pickups. While I'm convinced, by forum bro reviews, that BL pups are great pickups, I hate it when a manufacturer tries to baffle me with you-know-what.

MCP's website talks about the skin effect. They don't actually define it, but imply that they've minimized it by "scatterwinding". That in itself, shows that they don't understand what the skin effect is.

Put simply, the skin effect refers to the tendency of high frequencies to travel on the surface, or "skin", of a conductor, thus increasing the effective impedance of the wire as a function of frequency. The thing is, its only relevant to RF and microwave frequencies. If anyone wants to take a quick look at Wiki-pedia they can confirm this for themselves. If you really want a long read, take a look here.

But lets assume for a moment that we have "golden ears", and can hear the minute affect of skin effect at guitar frequencies. The remedy for skin effect is to use multiple strands of very fine wire, (Litz wire), to increase the effective surface area. MCP hasn't done this. They still wind the pickup with a single strand of solid copper wire. Scatterwinding has no relevance to the flow of current through an individual conductor. Its still one long solid wire.

Again, I don't mean to give you a hard time, but that type of technical nonsense will just turn people off to your products, which may very well sound great. ;)

Artie
 
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btw - I wanted to leave this on a positive note: The website, overall, is a very nice design. The colors are easy on the eyes, and it has a simple, clean look. Correct the punctuation and grammatical errors, and lose the technical nonsense, and I think you'll have a winner. :)

Artie
 
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MuchoTone said:
Well,since you asked,and your grammar is good,send me a p.m,with your choice,,,,Dave Simpson lost his,so it will go to you.Have a look at myspace,or motorcitypickups.com for models that are available.
Peace,,,,
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Hey man that's cool of ya. Here's what I'll do. I'll throw it in my maple strat and give you any honest evaluation. A friend is a guitar teacher and has a recording studio. I'll record some clips of me and him playing it and I'll write down all the settings, equipment, etc. When we're done I'll post them here.

Another friend plays in one of the bigger cover bands in Boston, see if I can drag him down too.

I'm gonna go with "The Solution." If possible, could you make this with dual adjustable polepieces? I've found that by radiusing all 12 poles it adds an incredible amount of drive and 3D wallop to the tone. It's like kicking on a mini clean boost and chorus and'll cast your bucker in the best possible light. Try it, you'll see what I mean.

Like the other guys said, no need to go postal when you disagree with a potential customer. It's funny and all, but not necessarily good for business. A polite correction and your good to go.

If the product is good, it'll speak for itself.

I'll pm you my shipping info.
 
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This is unbelevable!!!!!!!!
How can you guys do this in Seymour duncans backyard.
I don`t think it`s a good idea to promote MCP on SDUGF.
 
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kaffimann said:
This is unbelevable!!!!!!!!
How can you guys do this in Seymour duncans backyard.
I don`t think it`s a good idea to promote MCP on SDUGF.
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Not sure where you're coming from with this. Different brands are discussed here everyday. Duncan policy is they don't want their competition bashed on their forums. As long as you don't do that, it's ok.

These forums are all about information exchange. If you don't like that, your in the wrong place.

I also HIGHLY doubt Duncan is losing any sleep over MCP or any other small pup maker.
 
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Fritz6 said:
Not sure where you're coming from with this. Different brands are discussed here everyday. Duncan policy is they don't want their competition bashed on their forums. As long as you don't do that, it's ok.

These forums are all about information exchange. If you don't like that, your in the wrong place.

I also HIGHLY doubt Duncan is losing any sleep over MCP or any other small pup maker.
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I have no problems discussing other brands in here,I was talking about that MCP employee promoting his products here:) Someone said something about him hijacking threads with MCP stuff. That isn`t discussion,It`s promotion:)
 
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kaffimann said:
I have no problems discussing other brands in here,I was talking about that MCP employee promoting his products here:) Someone said something about him hijacking threads with MCP stuff. That isn`t discussion,It`s promotion:)
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When you said "you guys", I thought you were referring to me.

My bad, sorry bout that.
 
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