B.C. Rich Mockingbird STQ Guitar
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2013
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The B.C. Rich Mockingbird is one of the most iconic, original and enduring electric solidbody guitar designs made by a company whose name doesn't begin with an F or a G. Since its introduction in 1975, the Mockingbird has remained a favorite of hard-rock and metal guitarists for its high-performance design and aggressive lines.
The B.C. Rich Mockingbird STQ retains many of the original Mockingbird's features, but it's much more affordably priced and refined, to satisfy the needs of today's players. - Розваги
B.C Rich guitars are certainly sub-par at low prices but as you get into their higher end models they actually become very viable for their value. Also, older B.C Rich guitars get a lot of praise.
I have a 1980 Eagle deluxe bass...craftsmanship is second to none.
Yeah you can't beat the early BC Rich craftsmanship.
With all the switches I would have loved to hear some of the clean tones he could get from that.
Such an awesome guitar! I've fallen in love with it and want it now. Great review on it and really helpful for me to decide if I want to buy it. Thanks a lot!
+LegendGamer 11 I have a blue one for sale for $450.00. Perfect Condition! Let me know :)
getting so much better at playing now, well done
Great review of a killer guitar Paul! Loved your playing, really made the ax SING!!
The tone is great, finally a good sounding review by Guitarworld
I have the transparent black. The Duncan designed pickups are hot! It has a lot of bite, growl, and sustain. Awesome clarity on a clean channel. You don't really notice the difference with all the switches unless it's on a clean channel. But the five way rotary switch all the way up sounds like a booster. Brand new they're about $1,400 but I got for $700 and it didn't even have a single scratch. It's awesome and I love it!
I know this an old post, but they are using Dimarzio de-activator pickups now. Back in the day, all stock BCR's all came stock with Dimarzio's. I have one on the way. I had the exotic extreme in spalted maple, and an evertune bridge. It is a beautiful guitar, but I wanted one that looks like the retro mockingbird, but if you want a real shredder then get the exotic extreme line. Fishman pup, locking wilkinson tuners, 5 piece neck through body. I'm glad those 3 guys bought them, and returned them to their former glory.
A sweet guitar. Thanks for the review!
great playing, great tone. nuff said, this guitar is fab.
This guitar straight up kicks ass. The neck on it is amazing, the best neck of any of the 50+ guitars I owned, I liked it so much I picked up the Pro X version, but I don't like the Pro X as much as I like this one because it's not a hardtail. It has a Floyd Rose. Even though the EMGs sound great especially the 60 in the neck, it doesn't seem to ring as nice as the hardtail bridge, probably because of the hole through it required to mount the Floyd Rose. Some people get turned off by all of the controls but, once you start to play around with them, you'd be surprised how useful they become especially if you like to record, being able to reverse the phase and switch from single coil to humbucker comes in really handy. It's too bad he doesn't play anything clean in this demo because that's when you really notice the various tones of this guitar. If you play one of these that is properly setup, I doubt you'll leave the guitar shop without it.
I have both the MK7(looks exactly like this with a Floyd) and Special X and much prefer the later because it doesn't have the Floyd Rose. On the MK7 I have the FR blocked. I actually like having a fixed bridge with the fine tuning capability.
this is great man !!
The first good vid from this guy. Congratz! :)
when I first heard the beginning I just subscribed didn't even get to let him talk
I love my Mockingbird! Except mine has been heavily modded. The little toggles don't do what they were originally supposed to. One is a kill switch, one kills all the coils except half of the neck p/u, and the other does the same for the bridge p/u. And the kill is not a toggle switch, but a button. Took a while to figure it all out, but now it is a blast to play, especially if you play the Tom Morello stuff.
God I want this guitar!!!
Amazing....no one has complained about Paul's playing or the guitar tone. I'll give it a few more minutes. On another note, nice looking guitar. Nice sound, and good playing Paul.
nice keep rocking!
Damn! Paul is getting good! I owned that exact same guitar except mine was the blue finish instead of the red. I really liked it, but all those little switches you see? I don't think they were hooked up on mine. I swear, I could not tell the difference no matter what configuration they were in. I even let my guitar teacher listen and he couldn't tell either. Out of phase, in parallel, whatever. Other than that, it was a badass ax, just as you see here. Made for metal, to be sure.
This guitar is pretty damn sweet!
sounds great =)
Great guitar playing, mate! Better than on other reviews of the same guitar. Cannot hear a huge diefference in tone, maybe it makes sense to roll the tone off 40% and use only 1 and the 5th position on capacitor control knob. Great review, looking forward for a clean tone review as well.
LOVE IT.!!!!!
sounds good
hey guys i'm really interested in the trans purple mockingbird but lots of people say its not the colour it is in the picture. is it actually purple or some reddish pink.
I bought one of these a couple weeks or so ago since AMS has the black burl on sale for $400-ish. The black burl didn't look anything like its webshots (no brown, more like black & greenish under-tone shades in strong sunlight). On sound, the jury is still out for me, but I think for someone looking for a budget MIK metal guitar, they would not be disappointed. I'm not a metal fan, but am attracted to the Mockingbird. The depth of tone isn't there on this one like it is on my NJ MB (this one is a bit thinner/lighter), but it's got a wide variety of edgy tones that will make sure it cuts through regardless of how much gain you use. The DD p'ups sound quite good for this purpose. I doubt they are all that much behind their MIA SD Distortion cousins. I was able to dial in the action reasonably "good" but not great. I'm more of a bluesy rock guy, but this guitar will have you reaching for the gain knob. It wants to go to 11
Have these been improved with added larger frets?
i've seen models that have like these nuts screwed onto the top of the neck where the fretboard meets the head of the guitar.. I know that these keep the guitar in tune. how do you tune it? Is it like you have to undo the screws and then tune it?
Also, the strap lock is on top of the upper horn, not behind the upper horn. Look at any video of GNR or VR with Slash playing that Mockingbird...that guitar has features that were made in the late 1970's and early 1980's
That guitar looks (and sounds) SMOKING!!!
Nice axe!
hello .. I love this guitar .. guitar are of world ... and let me know your precio.y if you get one with floyd rose tremolo??? greetings answers
nech thru is high end? ebony?
it depends, when there is too much distortion, we didn't ear the sound of the guitar, but I'm with you, in that there's not too much distortion.
They have made one, it's called the Mockingbird SL, but the differance is, it's in natural.
I really don't get why people bash him so much.
By the way paul what amp do you demo with because it sounds great
Is it me or did the recording quality get better? I actually enjoyed the tone on this one, although it still could be better. Maybe its the amp they use?
What's the bridge? I love that bridge.
Thems some tasty riffs
Whats the difference between this and the ST? and why is the ST much more expensive?
standard st has a floyd rose 1000 series tremolo
People bitch about quality, these guitars are made in the same factories that LTD, PRS, Jackson etc. Just because they had an era where the quality wasnt great doesnt mean theyre always going to be that way.
This guitar is NOT an exact replica of Slash's red Mockingbird. Slash's has a string bar on top of the strings on the headstock, reverse mounted base plate on the back of the neck for the locks and is NOT a flame or quilt top. BC Rich...PLEASE make a replica of Slash's guitar...IT WILL SELL! ! !
It is not, but it is quite close though. It is a simpler version of the handmade SL, which is based on slash's mockingbird. So yeah, the guy is wrong
Has paul been getting guitar lessons?
Paul's a beast.
this guy plays like rob chapman
Hehe, love your comment :P
Not bad guitar world, not bad.
Oh, I know, it's just odd that they would go all out, except for the pickups.
dat EQ!!!!
This axe is killer! But, I'm really surprised that with all the high end specs, (neck thru, ebony fingerboard, etc...) it has Duncan Designed pickups. Weird...
so many knobs and switches :P
Yup. That's a tuning lock.
He needs to use his pinkie more. He obviously has some issues with finger independence.
Actually a good b.c. rich is really nice...mine has EMG's does a first act guitar have EMG's...don't think so.
I'm not too much of a fan of the appearance but it sure sounds nice.
See? He can do metal guitars too, everybody.
I would definitely consider getting this guitar if it didn't have so many damn controls...
actually those switches are pretty usefull. I can play pink floyd with a pretty good tone thanks to the sing coil switcher.
(My guitar is the one with a floyd bridge)
Ahh right, fair enough. I would just find it a little hard to get the hang of at first :)
Jack Montague Unless you want to play an humbucker and a single coil in the same song (wich is rare and i dont even know if any1 does that), you can just ignore the fact that it has all those switches
Duarte Santos You bought a metal guitar to play floyd?
vincent robbins It's way more than a metal guitar, the mockingbird has been around since 1976, I saw Rick Derringer playing Hang On Sloopy on one over 30 years ago.
I have a 2012 BC Rich Bich BGSTQTR; trans-red with the quadmatic bridge, Duncan Designed HB103 pickups, and a coffin case. Overall, I like the look and feel of it. Except, the quadmatic bridge sucks! I replaced it with a Schaller 456 with fine tuners. And, the HB103 pickups are useless. I want to replace them with some real Duncans; any Duncans will do! Or maybe some EMGs.
Jake pitts
I think he actually played quite nicely in this one. Tone wasn't too bad either.
I think the playing of Paul is not the problem! The thing is that this magazin should have a killer tone with such a high class equipment and this in every video the release and this is definetly not the case! This time its ok I think.
if you have one of these and are un happy or feel it is not getting the tone it should have clean all the dye off the fret board the ebony looks like it should have looked to begin with then polish the frets and treat the board this will change they way the guitar sounds it will open it up another thing i see all the time is cheap or improper cut nuts will ruin even the best guitars change them to a better made nut bone or graphite or have it done when bone is cut and polished right it wont bind the cleaning off the dye and a fret polish will make a big difference it did on mine then the bone nut i just installed topped it off now they sound like there supposed to sound i do this to all my guitars and basses as soon as i get them before i set them up polish the frets and clean the board smooth the saddles make sure the nut is cut right or replace it most of the time i replace it the nut is one of the most important if the the most important part of the guitar and a cheap or improper cut one will ruin a other wise great instrument
+Mr. Smith The fretboard is not dyed. Its an Ebony fretboard.
+TheSpineSplitter1990 LOL
+Mr. Smith I have not this one but st with floyd rose(previous version with Rockfield pickups) , but I could not see any dye of the fret board when I was polishing that.... but definitely quality of recent mockingbird lines have gone lower and lower again. It's too bad..... and latest one? nah.
Mine is of good quality but it also has Seymour Duncan's in it: JB in bridge and Jazz in neck.
Daniel Baber I had used duncan pickups too, 59 for neck position, JB for rear. It was a great setup that can never fail, but I recently changed them to kent armstrong pickups on trial XD
i would like to say i am not affiliated with bc rich and i do not work for them i have 3 of these guitars 1 just like the one he is holding the other 2 are natural maple mahogany the other natural walnut these guitars are great the fret work is excellent no sharp ends i just sent a iron label back over that they are well made even the soldering is neat and not a hack job you have to set the guitar up as always i did not get a book with any of them the online books are crap have nothing to do with these guitars i do have some complaints the first is no book if you have setup a quad bridge before then no worries if you have not it might take some time to tweak it just right 2 the tech people who are supposed to answer questions about the guitar i will name no names but they need fired they do not have a clue about these guitars they advertise with duncan designed hb 102 jb copy regular spaced non tremolo this is what the specs say and what they tried to argue with me about all 3 of mine have trem spaced pick ups and are hb 103 sh6 distortion copies they were telling me i am wrong i guess i cannot read because i was looking at the back of the pick it says hb 103b and hb 103n the two natural ones i have say the same about the pickups and say they have rose wood fret boards they do not both mine are ebony i like ebony better any way the only thing i do not like about my red one is the script writing were the other 2 have just an R the script is not just slapped on i just like the R better i wish they would stick dimarzio pickups in these and use cream pick up bezels on the maple ones and make the bridges out of brass and not plate it like the old ones the bridges are heavy but they probably are not brass yes all that would cost more but they would make there money if they would fire the people in charge of answering questions because they have no clue about the instruments they are selling they are reading from a misprinted spec sheet just like all the ones advertised i have told them about this sent picture to prove it so they can fix there error get it together and advertise accurately that is the only complaints i have if you do buy one and want to know certain questions they do not have the answers and i wish they would make an eagle like these they need to bump these up with there pro x model because these are are made with the same quality i passed on the pro x they could at least offer different pick ups and colors for the pro x model and they do not have no info on there usa shop i want to buy one if they still make them but cannot get no info about them but these guitars are great they are not the cheap pawn shop bronze sh*t we all hate i hope this helps any one looking to buy one of these
I really wanted to readwhat you say but you don't seem to use punctuation signs so it's a shame.
what the fuck is a full stop?
/want
tone is a bit too bright for me. Cool guitar never the less :)
sounds like pauls fingers healed!
god all the damn switches kill it.........
Make a video I'm the pro x
I'd buy this but no because of the shape.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINK PAUL PLAYING IS GREAT?!
Finally all the haters stopped
Nice guitar just put some real Seymour Duncan buckers in there
Cool dude, you've finally done a review and didn't sound like you play out of a vintage microwave.
go tell that to iommi
hes always been good, change the record
How is it that Paul can make a PRS sound like sh*t while making a B.C. Rich sound like a decent instrument?
Thats how they keep it a bit more affordable.
I have the replica one. tihs is the st"q" version. go search for BC rich mockingbird ST tr. Most of them have mafia pickups, but my version came with duncan designed to be a better replica of slash's one. if you wanna get one like mine go to thoman. com
your right but i may be biased since i know im looking at a hunk of shit
BUT the review was preeeetty BAD (he does that lately...WHY ?!) he didn't show the "variety" of sounds he described with his words
if they made these in a natural finish I'd be all over that shit, throw in a vintage mockingbird circuit from Neal Moser, some dimarzios, change to hardware to nickel and it would almost like a real bc rich. and if it was koa i wouldn't even mind buying an import
wood doesnt effect tone btw
That's something I will never believe until I die, but that's besides the point the Koa is all about the look. When i think of old BC Rich natural koa finish is the first thing that pops into my head. Nothing says BC Rich more than koa, dimarzios, and awesome electronics packages.
Theres two different natural ones on zzounds. Maple and walnut.
Thanks for the video!!!! GOD bless and keep you and JESUS loves you!!!!!
BC Rich's are about the same quality as a First Act guitar from Target. This one just happens to have decent pickups in it
The vintage ones are no joke. Top shelf stuff. I picked up a 1980 Eagle bass deluxe...oustanding craftsmanship.
Wanna try my '86 Mockingbird or Warlock and see if you still feel the same? The originals are balls out rockers...after Class Axe took over is when you gotta really scrutinise them.
a pointy headstock would be ugly, in my opinion
don't forget the hair.
Might be due to the fact that his hair doesn't look ridiculous either. No offence Paul!
This is hilarious. Even when people aren't bitching about Paul people are bitching about Paul not being bitched about.
Its a good guitar but the headstock doesn't match the body.Its to classy
thank fuck he wasnt playing a 7 or 8 string... ears have been saved.
... or his hair :P
I think he is going through a midlife crisis and has been practicing guitar more
Ehhhh..... Not generally.
God, play some jazz dude....
(Sarcasm intended)
No sir, they are not. Their fabrication skills are terrible (bad fret crowning, sloppy soldering, etc). And this is comparing a B.C. Rich 'USA' model with a Korean PRS or Epiphone.
Whattt ! No comments on how bad the sound is, Paul's hair or how he can't play metal & they should hire someone else, how ugly the gear being reviewed is or how so & so could have done better ? This can't be a Guitar World video !
i hate this shape