The Strat TONE Journey Continues | Pickup Swapping
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2020
- In this episode I swap out the Radio Shop RSV57’s for some Bare Knuckle Mother’s Milk pickups!
Mother’s Milk Set: bit.ly/2Zm7Z0M
RSV57 Set: bit.ly/3cQvRgG
Which are your favourite?
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That pickguard is AMAZING
Your smile after the first strumm says it all...
Oh I get it now, your playing is what makes them all sound so good!
Great rhythm guitar makes for a great lead guitarist.
@@mrinalkundu1521 So true!! I believe it brings a marriage of melodic ability over just fast reduntant phrasing. Hahaha. Not that I'm claiming I'm any good. Hehehe
The recent TPS episode with Rebea really solidified what people mean when they say tone is in the fingers for me.
Well, I prefer the Josephinas... But if course they all sound great
Thanks for watching guys - this is great because I don’t get to hear them all side by side until the video is done and I can watch it back to back!
At this point, I think I still prefer the Josefinas - although they lack what I love about the bare knuckles, which is that spank, attitude and dynamics, to my ear the BKP’s are maybe a little too sharp at the top, but also lack a little low end compared to the josefinas.
Although I still need to give it a little more time before moving onto episode 3.
Thanks for following the journey guys!
One thing to add:
In the A/B/C comparison at the end, I made a mistake on the Radioshop pickups section, as it was from before I lowered them. If you skip back to the start before I begin swapping them out, you can hear them sound as they should!
This is just as much fun for us as it is for you rabea! It's really interesting to see your opinions! It also shows its mostly preference and gives us the chance to make a better pickup selection for our own styles! Absolutely in love with that pickguard BTW 😍
So far, I'm liking the original Fender pups too - I know it was through a different rig - but the sound didn't "collapse" when you dug in... Looking forward to the next ones :-)
While I agree that the gold pickguard looks absolutely sick, I would suggest you try swapping pickguards while keeping the same pickups. I have one and fought a partscaster for months until I swapped pickguards. It's actually been on three of my strats and it will be going up for sale soon. It absolutely sucks out some of the highs and it drove me nuts. I mean, you may prefer the sound with the gold anodized pickguard, but for sure know that it does have an effect. I do love the way it looks and am sad it didn't work out for me.
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Agreed, anodized guards do have a pretty significant impact on the sound.
Rabea Massaad In my humble experience, I’ve observed that unpleasant top end sharpness with every brand new pickup I’ve tried. But also every time I’ve noticed that the top end sharpness disappears over time, regardless of new/old strings. It is a scientific fact that a magnet’s magnetism diminishes over time. I think all it really takes is for the magnets to lose that 0.1% magnetism over the next 6 months or so with regular playing to have a noticeable difference. You could also argue that it’s just your ear getting used to the sound, and while that is a valid argument, you can’t dismiss the possibility of the former being the cause as well. Long story short, give them a few months and the harsh high end will smooth itself out.
Not to be preachy, but I saw something that might be edifying for you to know about solder joints. I worked as a Electronics Technician for 15 years while going to university to complete undergraduate and graduate studies in English. What I learned while being re-certified every year to solder US Navy circuit boards is that, with "best practices," it is better to never blow on a solder joint as it is drying: That can sometimes create a "cold solder joint,' which will turn to either a dead connection or an intermittent connection, both of which are a pain in the arse to troubleshoot. Also, if that is "rosin-core solder," it is recommended to use an "acid brush" dipped in isopropyl alcohol to clean the rosin from the solder joint, well after it dries naturally. The rosin left on a solder joint can sometimes degrade a solder connection over time. BTW, I love the sound of the Mother's Milk pickups---a really rich, diverse collection of tones. :)
For all the beginner guitar enthusiasts like myself strolling around the youtube world.
Your guitar will not magically sound like this if you put in these pickups.
It is our friend blocking the assembly camera angle with his huge hair that makes the playing sound good.
The pick up configuration changes the "flavor" a bit, but it is still always the player that makes it tasty.
I loved how the fro just encompassed the whole camera shot during the soldering. just too good lolol
As much as that is the truth a set of good pickups will sound better than squire pickups and feel better to play through but it is not near as important as the player but no need to go more expensive as a £150 set of Seymour Duncans if you feel you can benefit from an upgrade
These are bright pickups, nothing like the pickups in a Squier because these have alnico magnets for a start. True strat players will love them. Average players will say they sound weak and unacceptably thin.
Sure. But the pickups will still make a similar difference if your starting point was Josefinas.
It's boom mic hidden in plain sight 😊
The originals sound the best to me. It just has some sweetness to it and not as much fizz in them. I bet the Ellis are going to be amazing. Super excited to hear that vs the Josephina pickups.
The smile on your face when you hit that first chord after the pickup change was priceless! You're going from one awesome sound to the next Bea! Fun seeing you on this journey.
Rabea, thank you so much for doing these. I have recently gutted my American Strat Plus in search of new pups. so what you're doing has helped me out and I'm sure many other people as well. Thank you for being you!
Your vids are among the best! Thanks Brotha!!
The Bare Knuckles Mother's Milk sound AMAZING! Can't wait to hear the other set.
Love Bare Knuckle pickups. Best thing I did was to put a set of Bare Knuckle Sultans in my Strat. I found a huge difference in not have wax potting in the pickups, more dynamic range and bite and got all 3 pickups with zinc base plates which add in an increased bottom end. Great videos mate. Hope you find the right set soon.
Great video! I love the Josefina’s first, then the bare knuckle. Thank you for sharing. I also can’t wait for you and Matt to get back to sounds like videos!
Thank you, Rabea, for such a great video material! That's priceless for us guitar tone geeks! Your playing and tone is amazing and very representative for these tests!
For my current taste I am amazed with RSV57!
But I understand why you prefer Mother's Milk.
Recently I realized that I am a maple neck Stratocaster fan, because of it's smooth attack, liquid feeling, and a lot of individual character in tone. Happily own exactly it on my beloved guitar, which I've chosen in 2005, knowing nothing about Stratocaster specific, just by intuition. Currently I am going to upgrade pickups and obsessed with videos like yours.
Keep on rocking! \m/
My life changed when I put lollar specials into my Strat! I’ve never looked back and everything fell into place for me! Certain things just click when they are right. Best of luck on your journey! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
The Josefina set is my favorite so far (the most strat sounding). These Bare Knuckles come second, for me they got a hint of tele-vibe going on.
well that copper amp does quite a magic too
I think i like Josefina > RSV > BareKnuckle. I have a Bare Knuckle True Grit in my bridge too
arch stanton - Actually I agree. I would use those as well. No need to upgrade. Much fuller sounding than the others.
Lee Thomas are you alright?
There my fav too just a nice strat tone
Each pickup set sounds great but so far I enjoyed you with the original set. Can't wait to hear the rest! Great job!
Thank you so much for this. I've been thinking about getting the mothers milk for a while now and you helped me make a confident and educated decision to get them. Cheers!
Great content! Keep it coming 👍🏼
Thanks for doing this Bea .This is great for us Strat players . I will be watchn for the episode with the 63's . That is the set I "think" I will like best,but I have been proven wrong before, when actually hearing the difference side by side . I have a MIM "60's " RW Strat that I will eventually be upgrading the pick ups .
The fist time you played the G chord with the bare knuckles your face just lite up , priceless .
The bare knuckles are my favorites to .
Love the tone!
This guy is really good - been watching him for some years now - enjoy all of it - now it's coincidence that I'm building a very similar guitar a few different things but I'm glad he finalized my decision thanks dude !
The Mother’s Milk set is so much fatter and warmer but still retains the quack in positions 2 & 4. I always enjoy your demos!
Game over! They sound magnificent!!
Really enjoying these..keep it up:)
These videos are fun to watch because I'm doing a bit of strat tinkering myself at the moment. You're a great player and putting out some cool content.
Also, don't mean to come off as a creep, but I've been on a youtube tear since being stuck at home during this pandemic. You look great man! Watching some of the older Andertons vids and you look like a completely different person. Don't know if it's intentional or circumstantial but its definitely noticable.
Great comparison videos. So far I agree about the Bare Knuckle Mothers Milk
This time, it's not just a bias. Great stuff.
Love the sound of this pick ups if I just was half as good of a player I'd be in heaven! as always inspiring playing!
Love this journey....keep travelling dude
Interesting these are called Mother's Milk, because I for sure could imagine Frusciante playing that setup. Maybe that's why they're called that, idk. Definitely my favorite of the three so far.
the bareknuckle web page has a demo for this set labeled "alternative" that sounds just like RHCP, so pretty sure they're inspired by that. Frusciante has a Seymour Duncan California set iirc
Beautiful tone with all of them!
Rabea man you have melted my face off with your playing on all sets!! My personal favourite was actually the original pickups but that's just me! Having said this, they all sounded amazing! Hope you are keeping well man!
Now, that set of Mother's Milk pups sound awesome!
So glad you did the A/B/C comparison back to back this time
cannot go wrong with any of the 3 sets! the capture the SOUND OF THAT PARTICULAR GUITAR....this is key
I liked the Radioshop ‘57s the best. There was something about the mids on them, that spoke to me. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
Great video man. Looking forward to your next videos in this series >;-)
Love my Bareknuckle pickups have/had several sets. Tim is always great to talk to, tell him the sound in your head and he will come up with a set. Got a new strat build with a set of Irish tours on the way.
They sound killer!
It's definitely all preference! To me, the radioshop set sounded best, I think I can hear a bit of extra thickness which I prefer. I don't like them to be too "glassy"
Same to me
Brilliant video Rabea... Again! got to say, I really prefer the radioshops... they sounded warmer and 'fuller'. I think sometimes it's about having the right tone for the style you're playing in and the radioshops had a deep, golden warmth for blues and jazz-inspired R&B/funk... That's my view for what it's worth. Anyway, really love what you are sharing here. Thanks
Hi Rabea
Great playing! As always...
Two things I'd like to mention:
1) Stick to the same amp! Last time you used the VC35 Copperhead, now it's a different amp, which makes the comparison a little hard. I wish you had stayed on the copperhead. It sounds beautiful with that strat!
2) I definitely prefer the roundness and the warmth from the Radioshop RSV57s. That's just a matter of taste though.
so after all this was another bareknuckle ad. joke the last pups sound incredible. love from Chile Rabea.
I've got the BK Cool Hand set in one of my Strats. I love them.
I have a Bare Knuckle 59 Slab board in the neck position of my main strat and it is absolutely killer! It produces all the right noises! The middle pickup is I believe out of a 90s American Standard strat and the bridge pickup is an SSL5 from Seymour Duncan. I always suggest to people to try different pickups in different positions of Strats, it makes your strat really personal! My number 2 strat has a set of Irish tour Bare Knuckles in it, they’re the first pickups I’ve ever put in a strat as a set that I’ve ever liked each position of pickup.
It's been said before but Rabea on a strat is the best Rabea for me. The strat just responds so well to your playing style and the result is wonderful
That is one funky sounding Strat.
I have noticed since first seeing you in older videos that your taste in guitars has gotten better.It seems as a musician matures he seems to have a better appreciation for more classic guitars with our own personality mixed into the instrument.
The gold scratch plate really looks the goods !
Got a set of Bareknuckle Mother’s Milk pickups in my strat, they’re amazing pickups and I’d definitely recommend them :)
Neck pickup sounds awesome!
I think I’ll buy the radio shop pick ups. Great classic Strat tone
Mother's Milk set has that kind of vibe that the black strat of yours has but with just like way more attitude and also, in the middle position, first chord you hit, when you played softer on them, it had that mid tone, kinda darker feel, almost like a Gibson on the neck, but when you digged in it went totally ham. No surprise, can't wait for my set from BK and have a go at something new. Ufff!! Cheers!!
Great Sound
Rabea masaad I love your playing man...
radioshops are beautifully clear and a glassier alternative to the stock custom shop pickups, but I definitely love the response of the mother's milk and generally prioritize that sound and feel for a strat tone. I might get the ones you just took out or some alternative that's as clear&glassy, along with the mother's milk set. Good stuff Rabea.
It’s 4am and I’m drunk. I’ve never watched your videos drunk before. It’s great.
Really like the Mother's Milk pickups!! They have quite a bit more grunt than the Josefina or the 57's to me, and they seem more articulate as well, sounds like they are more responsive to your dynamics too! Cheers, mate
I think I like the radioshop pups better, a bit lower output and more clarity. The bare knuckles sound like a telecaster.
I agree. The sound isn't what I expect to come out of a fender custom shop strat...
Really? I've got a '51 Tele sitting right next to me and it sounds nothing like Mother's Milk.............................. Best, Pete.
It doesn't sound like a tele, it sounds like it has more mids, teles have more mids so there's the correlation . That said he wanted more mids or omph as he put it so there's that. So though the radioshop may be more appropriate for the guitar, the Bareknuckle seem to match Rabeas personality more
@@justinguitarcia very good points.
I like Tele pups, but I didn't really like the BKPs.. 57's still for me so far, despite I'm not a fan of the strat sound, might just be a particular strat sound.
For me it´s Josefinas > Radioshop > BK MM, the Fender´s clean and tonal quality is amazing :)
I like them all. But the Bare Knuckles Mother's Milk pups sound the best. They've very complex sounding, very clear, articulate. Great playing too btw!
Incredible soud man.
I have a Strat copy which I’m currently upgrading the wiring, pots etc and fitting a set of Iron Gear Texas Loco pickups , keep the videos coming dude.
Man i love the mothers milk like i sakd in the last vid these are just so amazing my fab single coils
Just 100% sold me on those Mother's Milk pickups. That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for..
For what it’s worth, after trying a lot of Strat pickups, I’ve found that narrowing down the options into 2 categories, the 50s style and 60s style pickups, is the best way to stay sane through this process. I’ve been watching you play in all of the Andertons videos for years, and now your own videos. My guess is you will prefer the 60s style Strat pickups, because of the more assertive sound they provide. The trick is to find the right spank, without harshness, so you can feel the sweetness in the tone. I have a Fender 57 reissue Strat which I love, but eventually I found that the 50s sound was not right for me. After looking into it, I realized that my favorite Strat players were all using mid 60s Strat pickups, including Hendrix, which I know you love too. I actually ended up with, and recommend the Fender 65 vintage pickups which I found to have the right balance between being more assertive, and still allowing the important dynamic range needed to let the subtlety of your playing to come through. Congrats on your success and best of luck with your journey!
Ya, the bare knuckles sound amazing... Your a great guitar player as well B...
I can tell you the SD Antiquity II sets are very good - lots of quack! Plus one on the "Mother's Milk" set! Best, Pete.
I like the customer shop Josefinas the most still. Interesting how different people like the different sounds! Excited to hear what the next set sounds like.
Good choice of background music during the "operation".
Bare > Josefina > Radio so far.
Great playing as always, Bea!
The 57's just sound so refined and polished. Those would be perfect for one of my strats. The bare knuckles are a bit more 3 beers, let's break things. Great tones from both sets.
Love this hahaha
I guess I'm a 3 beers, let's break things kinda guy! 😝
I LOVE the sound of those Mother's Milks--and the little smile you gave on the first strum! 😃 I've gone through every one of the single coils BK has and those Mother's Milks are standouts for me personally. Somehow both bright and clear as well as warm and dark. 🤷🏻♂️ Don't know how else to say it.🤣 Very versatile. Can't wait for the next episode!
Very interesting videos! I was thinking that it might be interesting for other video to change a bit faster from a set of pickups to the other, so that we can hear instantly the difference. I think that I prefer the Custom Shop at this point; but keep on with the journey!! It's being a good series!
The bare knuckles sound amazing!
Thanks for the video man. Josefina’s for me
Those Radioshop 57's have the best Strat neck pickup I've ever heard.
Down the rabbit hole! I preferred the Fenders but the Bare Knuckles were nice too.
the mothers milk by faaaar is my fave!!
Hi rabea, I have bare knuckle Apache in my American strat, that guitar has had many different pickups over the years but the apaches are the best for me, the mother’s milk sound amazing, that guitar looks amazing too 👍🎸
All sound great but those Bare Knuckle wow, another level
you know things are going well when your in the ad before your video! Lol
Mothers milk sound so good!! I may get the bare knuckle humbucker sized p 90’s. Great video
The Mother's Milk pickups definitely suit your style more.
Synic42 Agreed. What’s the general consensus on the Trilogy set? Don’t hear much about them.
Mothers milk sound great. You also have some fantastic blues chops
Just purchased mothers milk pickups they are perfect for me.
So far it's josefina IMO. Thanks Bea for sharing this with us. Love you man!
Honestly, I liked the Josefina. I thought they sounded very good. Really however, neither are a bad set of pickups. The Bareknuckle sounded good also.
Looks amazing ! Always thought gold was gordy and a bit tacky but looks brilliant on the burst. Not really sacrilege when it’s your guitar to do what you want with. I have some Irish ☘️ tours in my 60s classic player and it’s transformed the guitar . Great video
All sounds great to me. Jimi & Stevie Ray are smiling down at your guitar from above and Ritchie Blackmore might just crack half a smile (that's saying something!) from some pub in the states. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤘👍
Three variations on a great theme so far. What you want from a Strat will determine which you prefer. IMO the Mother’s Milk set suits Rabea’s playing style(s) really well.
i've been using mother's milk for about 10 years. i love them. sweet tone.
besides the beautiful clean tones, due to the low output you can bash the hell out of your strings and they don't cave in from too much signal. rock on.
Sounds way better. I love hearing him noodle when he likes the sound.
Radio shop for me on the back of this video. Do also preference the original pups over the bare knuckles.
Thanks for sharing. 👍🎯🇦🇺
I've a decent quality sound system to hear you, it's remarkable the difference to be heard between the sets. The first is fairly sweet and mellow, the second much more output and thicker mids. The last very clear character and pushes the upper mids, lots of attitude shines thru. Enjoy your comparative show thx
I love the 63 Veneer board set, I have a neck and middle paired up with a Silo humbucker in the bridge and it's amazing.
that pickguard with black pickup covers and hardware would be gorgeous
Mother’s milk definitely sound right in that guitar to my ears. 👍
Bea I had a set of those Mother’s Milk in my old strat. I regret getting rid of it, never had a tone as good since! If you know anyone that can mod a pull switch so you can have all 3 pick ups in on sync do it - it sounds soooo good!