Pickups For Punk

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big_black said:
Live, the guys from NoFx play a Tele (w/rails?) and a Bc Rich (Bitch). Rise Against-Live they both play SGs.
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NoFx uses BC RItch? I read new things every day. :saeek:
Most of the time when I see footage of Nofx, Melvin is using a LP and El-Hefe a Telecaster. The one time I saw them live they used the same set up.

The perfect pickup for a punky sound is the JB IMHO. A lot of the punkrock bands use a JB for that kind of sound.
 
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drew_half_empty said:
no, he can go to hell, I HAD IT FIRST! :laugh2:
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Lol. That just reminded me of office space, when the guys name is michael bolton, and his friend says, "well, why dont you just change ur name to Mike?" and Bolton says, "no way, hes the one that sucks, let him change it!", haha great movie.
 
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I've always seen Melvin playing one of those neck-through Bitches, natural finish. You've never seen that one?
 
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I think it can be safely derived from this thread that just about ANY pup could do the trick for punk.
 
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Hey - I listened to your stuff - nice guitaring, by the way. The only higher-output SD pickups I've tried are the JB and the Invader, so I speak from very limited experience, but I was hearing a JB in a strat kind of sound. The music could have used a little more cruncheroo, but without sounding too metally or compressed, and I think the JB could get you there. The Invader was more of a specialty product, love it or hate it type of thing, and could be darker than what you're going for.

Say what you will about Blink 182 (and I think they can turn out a decent song when they leave the juvenile bs behind for 5 seconds), but the guitar sounds halfway decent most of the time.

When I played punk I played a stock 79 hard ash tele and a 70s Ibanez Flying V with Duncans in it (but I don't know what kind). They both worked great.
 
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lets see, youth brigade used stock strats

social d, well, mike used to play an sg i think, now he's onto that goldtop les paul

I think if you're getting a single coil for the bridge, go for a lil 59, or a hotrail, hotrail will give you TONS of distortion, maybe too much, maybe just enough, lil 59's are actually about the same output as a jb, and have a better voicing IMO

and that is my final answer
 
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Best punk tone comes from taking a cheep digital EQ and putting every other band all the way up and every other band all the way down. Make sure the pickups are out of phase.
 
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Well listen, depends on how you want your setup. If you're will to go with 2 humbuckers then use this set up:

Bridge: Gibson Dirty Fingers(Buy it used, or a JB instead)
Neck: SD Invader(ever since I fixed it, I love it)

or if not, then just go with the SD invader. It gives an awesome distortion.(Depends on pedals, but I got great distortion from any pedal :burnout: )
 
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c'mon guys, I used to ask these questions & want solid state amps & play all power chords

now I know exactly what i want out of amps, guitars, pickups, pedals, and my playing has improved tons.

point is, don't shoot down someone for playing punk, a lot of, if nto all rock guitarists play it atleast sometimes. As people grow as players, it starts to get less & less usually, unless you start working in another style, like rockabilly, which is what i do. If he cares about tone, you should obviously help him instead of saying 'well a REAL punk would but this cuz its cheap' or something like that. That just makes people bitter.
 
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Nightburst said:
NoFx uses BC RItch? I read new things every day. :saeek:
Most of the time when I see footage of Nofx, Melvin is using a LP and El-Hefe a Telecaster. The one time I saw them live they used the same set up.

The perfect pickup for a punky sound is the JB IMHO. A lot of the punkrock bands use a JB for that kind of sound.
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Melvin LP El-Hefe Tele if i remember right, but Melvin (used to) play BC Ritch.

When i saw Rise Against, he had a LP syle guitar, but i think it was a guitarist of shai hulud. On the Album "The Unraveling" which has imo a very cool guitar sound,
he uses a parker fly and a gpc jesse micheals model (lp style) thru a Soldano SLO with Soldano cab and a Dual Recto with a Rectocab with V30s. In between the guitarist changes and the singer now play guitar too, right????

+ 1 for the JB. It has the nice palmmute sound and it's perfect for punk and for all fast loud music! imo
 
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drew_half_empty said:
i'd avoid an invader, based on the fact that blink 182 uses them, but thats just me

and i forgot about the customs, wouldn't reccomend the custom 5 cuz it has close to no mids, but the regular custom would work, maybe custom custom
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Tom Delonge used an Invader, who cares. It would seem to me that it wouldnt matter who used or uses them as long as they sound good. Put Blink-182 aside and don't judge a pickup just because a band you don't like for whatever reason uses or used them. :rolleyes:
 
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drew_half_empty said:
i'd avoid an invader, based on the fact that blink 182 uses them, but thats just me

and i forgot about the customs, wouldn't reccomend the custom 5 cuz it has close to no mids, but the regular custom would work, maybe custom custom
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The invader can do so much more than just a blink182 tone, avoiding it simply because its used by blink182 is rediculous, why not also add that he should avoid the JB because jeff beck uses one :rolleyes:


I agree with most that is said here, in that nearly every pickup could be used for punk, but seeing as you do have a particular tone in mind it could still be a good idea to chnage your pickups.
 
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theboatcandream said:
A lot of 80's punk bands sounded like crap. It was all about the energy...
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To me thats what makes this topic self-contradictary. The sex pistols were, musically, terrible: it was in their energy and their influence that they can be praised. So buying pickups to imitate that energy doesnt make sense. Still, if you're just after pop-punk pups then you cant go wrong with a set of P90s.
 
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There is no one pickup for punk but theres a pickup for your unique playing style wether you wnat a more fatter midrange or more output or lots of bass or a pickups that cuts through and is aggressive...etc Its up to you
 
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I'm with Lew - If your asking what pup for punk, you need to get a third-party replacement attitude! Turn it on, turn it up, and turn it out! But....anything mid-output crunchy should do the job. I mean, I was playing "Shoot to thrill" the other day on a Yamaha CGX-171 nylon string acoustic. With enough attitude ANYTHING can work....well, almost, anyway.
 
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i just listened to your band, pretty cool stuff, not a big pop-punk fan but it reminded me of blink 182's earlier stuff, i say turn the amp gain down a little so you dont get so much compression, for a pickup i dont see how you could go wrong with a Jb or an invader.
 
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