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I bet you will like the BKP CobraT!
It' not just fat mids like the Hot rails, but really balanced with enough top end.
the amount of fatness (bass and low mids) can be dialed in or out with the PU height.
The Pickup cuts and can really scream, so i guess the upper mids you like, are there.
you can kind of tell it spots a ceramic magnet.
It can get really brutal but also sounds good with a small amount of gain, where the EMG81 for example totally sucks.
I wish there would be a humbucker that could do the same!
Output is easily on par with the EMG81, but i can check if it's not even hotter. if i remember correctly i use the same gain setting for both.
i guess because of the rails there is some simularity to an EMG81. the attack is less clanky then all of my pole piece single Coil, although some of them are wound hotter. there is something with the feel of rail pickups, they all have in common, hard to describe.
but it doesn't sound very similiar to the EMG81. After all it is still a single coil.
They do have good soundsamples on their side, so you can compare it to some high output buckers.
never moved it out of the tele i initially installed it in (3 years ago, bought used) and I am thinking of getting another one. prices are ridiculous and i am not willing to try new PU from them, though.
It' not just fat mids like the Hot rails, but really balanced with enough top end.
the amount of fatness (bass and low mids) can be dialed in or out with the PU height.
The Pickup cuts and can really scream, so i guess the upper mids you like, are there.
you can kind of tell it spots a ceramic magnet.
It can get really brutal but also sounds good with a small amount of gain, where the EMG81 for example totally sucks.
I wish there would be a humbucker that could do the same!
Output is easily on par with the EMG81, but i can check if it's not even hotter. if i remember correctly i use the same gain setting for both.
i guess because of the rails there is some simularity to an EMG81. the attack is less clanky then all of my pole piece single Coil, although some of them are wound hotter. there is something with the feel of rail pickups, they all have in common, hard to describe.
but it doesn't sound very similiar to the EMG81. After all it is still a single coil.
They do have good soundsamples on their side, so you can compare it to some high output buckers.
never moved it out of the tele i initially installed it in (3 years ago, bought used) and I am thinking of getting another one. prices are ridiculous and i am not willing to try new PU from them, though.
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