bare knuckle trilogy suite vs cobra

[shalev98732]

so i got two guitars i want to put bkp single coils in, a fender mim standard strat sss (i currently have a super distortion in the brdge position rest is stock), and a jackson concept series hs which currently got a miracle man in the bridge and a hot rail in the neck.
i play mostly thrash metal, children of bodom, pantera, blues, souther rock and blues rock.
tim recommended me both of them.

 

[shalev98732]

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[gunch]

I don’t want to sound like a dick or anything but if you’re getting advice right from Tim BKP I don’t know how much help we would be. I myself am interested in the impulse singles to throw in a strat. Idk if he still uses this site but maybe shoot zimbloth/nick from axe palace a pm or email

 

[shalev98732]

I don’t want to sound like a dick or anything but if you’re getting advice right from Tim BKP I don’t know how much help we would be. I myself am interested in the impulse singles to throw in a strat. Idk if he still uses this site but maybe shoot zimbloth/nick from axe palace a pm or email

i understand you, but i said he recommended both, so im looking for insight on those pickups from people who have them

 

[lost_horizon]

Cobra: less mids (more hot vintage sounding like an FS-1, no mids, rail design so better bends and volume, have two cobra's one in each HSH guitar, absolutely shines for everything including country. Noise is low)
Trilogy Suite: good but so what? Why fuck around when you can get Dimarzio HS3/HS4 for cheap or even better Seymour Duncan YJM.

 

[Emperoff]

I don’t want to sound like a dick or anything but if you’re getting advice right from Tim BKP I don’t know how much help we would be. I myself am interested in the impulse singles to throw in a strat. Idk if he still uses this site but maybe shoot zimbloth/nick from axe palace a pm or email

Every time I've followed Tim's recommendation I didn't like the result so I definetely give him a pass.

 

[shalev98732]

Every time I've followed Tim's recommendation I didn't like the result so I definetely give him a pass.

tim's recommendation are good for me, he recommended me the miracle man and its one of my most favorite bridge pickups, he just always recommends more than 1, so its hard to choose since some pickups dont have a lot of sound clips or miss some sound clips on the site.

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

I've actually used both of these pickups. The Trilogy Suite was a lot brighter in a harsh way and definitely sounded like a single coil. It was pretty cool though and definitely made me want to play early heavy metal riffs. I would not like it for anything past 80's heavy metal though.
The cobra is one of my favorite pickups I've ever used. It has a modern EQ response and is certainly a little scooped but also is one of the clearest pickups I've ever used. It can do basically anything you want and is exceptionally responsive to picking dynamics.
I recorded my bands recent full length with a Cobra bridge and '63 Vaneer Board neck in a Fernades strat into the Fortin Cali Suite sim from Neural with Ownhammers Greenback IR's.
You can hear it here

 

[gunch]

I've actually used both of these pickups. The Trilogy Suite was a lot brighter in a harsh way and definitely sounded like a single coil. It was pretty cool though and definitely made me want to play early heavy metal riffs. I would not like it for anything past 80's heavy metal though.
The cobra is one of my favorite pickups I've ever used. It has a modern EQ response and is certainly a little scooped but also is one of the clearest pickups I've ever used. It can do basically anything you want and is exceptionally responsive to picking dynamics.
I recorded my bands recent full length with a Cobra bridge and '63 Vaneer Board neck in a Fernades strat into the Fortin Cali Suite sim from Neural with Ownhammers Greenback IR's.
You can hear it here

Yooo this rips it reminds me of Coalesce, Intronaut's first more mathy sounding EP and Anodyne and of course Gaza

 

[shalev98732]

I've actually used both of these pickups. The Trilogy Suite was a lot brighter in a harsh way and definitely sounded like a single coil. It was pretty cool though and definitely made me want to play early heavy metal riffs. I would not like it for anything past 80's heavy metal though.
The cobra is one of my favorite pickups I've ever used. It has a modern EQ response and is certainly a little scooped but also is one of the clearest pickups I've ever used. It can do basically anything you want and is exceptionally responsive to picking dynamics.
I recorded my bands recent full length with a Cobra bridge and '63 Vaneer Board neck in a Fernades strat into the Fortin Cali Suite sim from Neural with Ownhammers Greenback IR's.
You can hear it here

thanks a lot, the song rips.
do you by any chance have a recording of the cobra playing cleans?

 

[Marked Man]

Cobra: less mids (more hot vintage sounding like an FS-1, no mids, rail design so better bends and volume, have two cobra's one in each HSH guitar, absolutely shines for everything including country. Noise is low)
Trilogy Suite: good but so what? Why fuck around when you can get Dimarzio HS3/HS4 for cheap or even better Seymour Duncan YJM.

The Duncan YJM set is a nice modernization of the trad DiMarzios. Either sets sounds awesome when properly boosted and I see no reason to pay a ton more for a ~similar set from elsewhere, although I have no doubt the BKP would serve well as they are always quality.

The Cobra set is far more interesting to me, and could easily end up in my next project.

 

[shalev98732]

The Duncan YJM set is a nice modernization of the trad DiMarzios. Either sets sounds awesome when properly boosted and I see no reason to pay a ton more for a ~similar set from elsewhere, although I have no doubt the BKP would serve well as they are always quality.

The Cobra set is far more interesting to me, and could easily end up in my next project.

honestly in my country bkp and seymour duncan cost the same

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

Not readily available, I’d have to record something. They do sound really great clean though. They’re quite a bit hotter than a normal strat bridge pup so it tends to be somewhat crunchy if you set clean tones for a neck pickup.

thanks a lot, the song rips.
do you by any chance have a recording of the cobra playing cleans?

 

[Marked Man]

honestly in my country bkp and seymour duncan cost the same

A Dimarzio or Duncan HB or single averages around $100 in the US vs $180-$200 ea for BKP, not a small difference.

However, the difference between full Strat sets is far less, which makes them very interesting.

If you bought one single coil at a time, BKP could easily be $35 more each, but less difference than that between full sets.

 

[eaeolian]

I like the Trilogy Suites a lot better than the YJMs. Big and boisterous.

I have not played the Cobra.

 

[shalev98732]

A Dimarzio or Duncan HB or single averages around $100 in the US vs $180-$200 ea for BKP, not a small difference.

However, the difference between full Strat sets is far less, which makes them very interesting.

If you bought one single coil at a time, BKP could easily be $35 more each, but less difference than that between full sets.

its just the taxes in my country ngl, and the fact that a gutiar lab i get bare knuckle from imports them at low quantities so they doent get import tax, plus its the only guitar lab where you can test all bare knuckle pickups with a drop in and drop out pickup switch system

 

[77zark77]

First sorry my english vocabulary is not enough to explain correctly, but I would try anyway since I have both in 2 of my Universe (see the love letter to the Universe thread)
the ts sounds like a stratish single coil with punch, the cobra sounds like a humbucker without the roundish and smooth sound of a humbucker with a strong accent on the low-mids

please don't ask for samples, I'm not god at that and not well equipped for