Bare Knuckle Pickups Mother's Milk Strat set demonstration by Micky Crystal.

[@carlosalves4444]

Omg at 1.00 min that is the sound ive been looking for in my strat. What a sweet riff and just amazing tone.

[@timbennett6644]

Glorious tone....

[@josephmckenna7645]

That playing! That tone! My god!

[@oabdellatif]

This dude's playing makes me cry.

[@tymtrppr3]

that Jimi tone is killer

[@guyheymans5825]

Some impressive playin' here😄

[@kilianruvalcaba6904]

Woohoo unbelievable sound of that pickups, I loved it, and you're amazing guitar player, greetings from Mexico

[@bigslott]

Sometimes I play this video, just to hear some good music and to get inspired

[@russelltippins2985]

Whoa Micky! Best I've ever heard you and that's saying something!

[@danparry834]

Awesome video! Nice to hear some RHCP thrown in as well!

[@commodore6430]

Very tasteful playing

[@Manley156]

Killer playing, not my kinda strat tone, but see the appeal! You guys make great stuff

[@Voodoo66Chile]

Ahhh, if they neck pickup actually sounds like this demo then I've found the pickup I've been looking for forever. I'm a big Jimi freak and prefer his earlier tones (pre '69/'70) and finding I want something else for my neck pickup. The CS69s sound great for Jimi's tone with the Olympic White and Black Beauty maple Strats but I just LOVE the neck pickup sound he was getting on those rosewood Strats. I think I'm going to pull the trigger on a Mother's Milk neck pickup and cross my fingers, the neck pickup tone in this video is what I've been striving for. Great video! Great playing and BEAUTIFUL tone!

[@Voodoo66Chile]

Yup, just ordered a Mother's Milk neck pickup, can't wait to receive it!

[@missingremote4388]

they sound great!! Collect all three!

[@bigg4454]

I had to chose between those or the '63 Veneer boards which wound up in one of my Strats. Either way, I'm sure I'd be satisfied. It'd be nice to play like that too. Oh yeah!

[@PhilDoughty]

Nice hat tip to Frank Gambale @3:42

[@rickjones641]

I've got a set in my Mexican strat, and because of them I play it more than any of my 'higher end' guitars. They're just stunning sounding in all positions and clear as anything from clean to fuzzed senseless.

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

It's that your higher end guitars are not so high end... Give a try to guitars with a 90/10 neck (no trussrod, 10% of the neck is a carbon bar I can't live without my two Passion III medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/vigier-passion-custom-118826.jpg medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/vigier-passion-custom-63019.jpg They also make a stratoïd named Excalibur. Thanks to the 90/10, with the same pickup as any Strat onboard, they slaughter the Strat (as long you're into alder ones, unfortunately, they don't make swamp ash guitars). I was approached for a low-level Fender endorsement, end 00's... About 20 CSMH tried in an afternoon, none on par with the 'worst' of my two Excaliburs, 'worst' because this one has a Floyd Rose and FRs degrade the sound. Under the pickguard, they're all routed HSH and there's a plug allowing to change PGs within minutes. I like to have PGs allowing Strat job while having at the same time more punchy stuff, e.g. DM FS-1 in nake posn and HalfTrack or SuperDistortion (single coil sized) in bridge, so in fact, it's SS-S-SS... I tend to use the Excaliburs more 'cause... The Passion IIIs sound so intense that I fear for my sanity! If you heard Anne-Akiko playing the Guarnerius 'Vieuxtemps' either live or on HD 24-96 recording, the Passion III-90/10 (there were also carbon neck ones which are the best carbon neck guitars one can find, but you sound only very modern with all carbon necks) will drive you as bonkers as the Guarnerius! Thus they're near impossible to find : only 46 made! After tryin' one in 1992, took me 17 years to finally get the only one I ever saw for sales, I had to barter my Passion III/carbon for the 2nd... It was a heartbreak, as well for the other guy but he needed a 2nd carbon one, he's very into jazz fusion in the Holdsworth range and these kill the Steinbergers, while I needed a 2nd 90/10, moreover, one has passive Seymour Duncan kit, the other has Benedettis with a preamp. I love the Excaliburs but... There is no bolt-on neck guitars that are true high end! Not even set-neck ones. All true high end are neck-thru, or semi neck thru when you have hard-wood bodies made of 1 piece. I'm not enough a whore: I could have made money by selling the series guitars I could have gotten for free, and made a margin from CSMH ones you get for the quarter of the street price. In fact, them and Ibanez endorse a lot of people at grassroots levels, as well as sponsoring music schools, guitar teachers, local guitar-heroes etc

[@rickjones641]

@@Haroun-El-Poussah I’m set with what I have, tbh - I’m not the best player and my stuff is already better than I ‘need’! Glad you like your guitars though, that’s the important bit. They sound like amazing instruments. 🙏🏻

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

Now let me get you disgusted: a Mex Strat costs about €1000 as new, right? These are about the lowest prices you'll pay for a 2nd hand Excalibur in France. They're all routed HSH under the pickguard, so you can mount any PU set you want, woods are of similar quality as CSMH, well, OK, technically, they're team built with CNC support since 2003: they couldn't cope with orders and had to rationalize production, thus, quality has not suffered at all: the job is fully hand finished with great attention, BTW, daddy Vigier already invented a kinda PlekMachine... early 80's! 100th mm precision! The 90/10 patent wake'em better than any CSMH. The trembar is mounted on needle bearings used into Airbus landing gears, these take 10,000 RPMs. The Ibanez Z3 is on classic ball bearings, well, it's nice too but... Sub-par copy... Nut is self lubrificating graphite or locking. If not locking, tuners are locking ones from Spertzel, often seen as the best ones on market. The cheapest one is 90's=> Fully hand built. www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/2179680647.htm www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/2262479186.htm They don't say they are mint, but they're in rather nice state. One of the best necks you can find with the Parker, Suhr, Tyler, MM Luke or Ibz Wizard: all are damn great. Radius 11.81" : close to a SRV Strat (12"). Let's go a little older: in the 80's Leduc was working like Gibson used to in the Golden era. He had specialized workers and came after their job to fine tune it or do the subtle stuff, and did the high end on his own. They used to build 80 instruments a month, so you could find 'em in many music shops. The mainly produced guitar was the D3 was the D3 : he was the 1st to use Seymour Duncan PUs as a standard (HH), and the D3 was neckthru construction... The only reason I never went for a D3 or derivate was... Gibson 24.75" diapason, rather 41mm wide neck: too small for me... I preferred their sound to both Strat and LP! Most are built of alder, maple neck, with or w.o. rosewood fretboard. Some more luxuous versions were made with walnut body or flamed maple body... I saw one for a very nice price and called my ex pupil and old friend because he has small hands, e.g. Excaliburs are truly too large necks to his taste (strats too)... It's even funny we both end with maple bodies, by chance! And he got addicted, but, back at it... There are alternate version of the D3, e.g. this with a pickguard and SSS, in fact, the owner is wrong, it's a D3-CL www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/1896429405.htm Necks are very fast, comfy, fully handbuilt neckthru, vintage... The only Fender neckthru Strat I've ever seen was the CSMH ordered by Blackmore! Guitars obey to the market's offer/demand law. I only go after high qualty/low demand. Frankly, most of guitarists are not even able to appreciate if they have an outstanding instrument at hand!

[@rickjones641]

@@Haroun-El-Poussah I paid £400 for my Mexican strat in 2012! I have a Suhr Classic S, two PRS USA CU24's (one '97 and one 2019) a 93 PRS CE24 and two USA strats, a Warmoth tele, as well as a two Avalon acoustics, a Gibson J185 and a National Resorocket... I do know what the difference is with higher end guitars... I just actually prefer playing the Mexican ever since the Mother's Milk pickups went in it! I'm not in the market for anything else... my guitar collection is way beyond my talent and ability already!

[@danparry834]

What fretboard have you got on your strat?

[@godbyone]

Beautiful around 45 seconds picking out chords

[@simonnotthepieman1581]

I have Mothers Milk in one of my strats. At first I wasn't sure about them, very high clarity and less grit than I'm used to but they grew on me and now I love them. I usually play them through a cranked original 57 Champ but literally just today I ordered a Hiwatt SA80 w/ 212 so am curious to see how well they work with that

[@stevecolledge8355]

If you close your eyes you would think this was Micky Crystal playing.

[@mattyjake]

Great playing Micky👍🏼 pups sound great

[@baragentledragon]

A pleasure to hear a dude that looks and plays a little like Dave Gilmour.. though unique also, Brilliant.. Where u gettin that sustain? Clarity is top level..

[@TeddySmashings]

10/10

[@joshuagriffith7904]

Holy shit.

[@Frank-fh2qn]

Oh, they're versatile.

[@dominicijavier1575]

love the glassy tone at 2:30. what amp are you plugged into and did you have to crank up the treble to get that or are the pickups naturally that bright?

[@SoniaGail]

Why thr put the volume write next to the e string gets in the way like a dog on heat. Good review

[@edhewlett]

What overdrive pedal is used in the later parts? Pickups sound great - may purchase in the next few weeks

[@bradwimmer1157]

These pickups sound incredible...obviously the player does too. Tasty chops Micky! Is the middle pickup wired RWRP on the set used in this video?

[@dominicijavier1575]

is this based on frusciante's tone on mother's milk?

[@samuelshoemaker2244]

Beautiful playing wow, what exact set is that I was looking on the website and there are a lot of options… are those rwrp in the middle?

[@jcsanchez6298]

What amp is he using?

[@ellleigh1216]

Are these pick ups John frusciante inspired by any chance?

[@danparry834]

I would say so

[@Manley156]

no

[@MrRocketguitar]

Demos his playing more than the pickups

[@zakkybagis3068]

are those with zinc plate ? sick tone

[@BKPickups]

Zinc baseplate on the bridge pickup only on this set

[@zakkybagis3068]

@@BKPickups what can we expect if zinc baseplate are installed in all position ? do you recommend this for Mother's Milk set ? will the chimeness/woodyness still there ?

[@guitarwithdm6901]

Mother's Milk weird name picup but sounds very smooth and silky where did you get this name ?

[@samerbata]

Think the inspiration comes from a RHCP album 😊.

[@samerbata]

@Jon Oz I also believe it's the first album John F played on 😊. Hence the tone and significance of the name ☺️.

[@shaunfreke3614]

Really over powering treble with no warmth. I’m guessing that’s how the guy playing likes it, but Lord it doesn’t show of the range of the pick-up at all. Thank goodness I didn’t watch this before changing up to Mothers Milk on my Strat!!

[@SotirisVasileiadis]

hehe;

[@rj2128]

What's the point of having so much gain and compression on the sound only to suffocate the tone...?