Twangbanger

[badco33]

Hi,

Can anyone let me know the difference in tone between the Twangbanger and the Antiquity Custom Bridge? I currently have a set of Texas Hots with a Custom bridge in my main strat and I am more than happy with that setup but I'm building another strat and wanted to try something different for that one. I don't have any experience with Teles but this pick-up sounds like it would have a good vibe to it. How would it compare?

 

[jeremy]

funny. i have a hamer daytona (a strat) with aps2's neck and middle with the twangbanger in the bridge and i love it, its my main blues guitar. im building a guitar for a set of texas hots and a custom bridge.

 

[badco33]

That is fuunny cause I was definitely thinking of a Twangbanger in the bridge and AP2's in the neck and middle. How does the twangbanger sound compared to a "regular" strat bridge pup? What are the pros, what are the cons if any?

 

[MattPete]

The APS neck and middle with a twangbanger bridge is what I was planning on ordering for my Warmoth swamp ash strat. Since I got an email from UPS last night saying that the body and neck are shipping, I'd better get moving on my pickup order!

 

[Lewguitar]

The Twangbanger has the metal baseplate on the bottem of the coil which reflects the magnetic field from the bottem of the polepieces upwards towards the strings. This gives a pickup maybe 5% more bass and lower mids than the same pickup without the metal baseplate, without affecting the highs.

Tele lead pickups also have the baseplate so the Twnagbanger sounds a bit like a Tele lead pickup. Except the Twangbanger has alnico 2 polepieces and most stock Teles use alnico 5. So the Twangbanger has the sweeter, less brittle or glassy highs of alnico 2.

I have not compared the Antiquity Texas Hot Custom Bridge pickup to a Twangbanger, but the Custom measures close to 10K and the Twangbanger is 8.27K. I would tend to think the Custom might be a little stronger overall.

I'm a big fan of the baseplate on Strat bridge pickups...it fattens them up a little and that sounds good to me.

Lew

 

[kevlar3000]

This is a clip I did a year or so ago, I just listened to this now and there is some modulation effect going on that I never added. Hopefully it is just through this computer as I recorded it straight with none of the swirly crap. That said you can still get a feel for the sound, it was recorded through my Plexi RI.

The Banger is a wonderful gutty bridge PU. Warms up any Strat nicely and will get you into PAF territory if you choose. But it has a very nice Twang as well and you get a snap on the notes that a normal Strat bridge can't do.twangin and bangin