Love the bird

I've been playing my Son of Beast too much recently; it's the novelty of a fresh addition to the line-up but today, I remember my Ironbird Space Face. This was in fact the guitar which got me started with the single pickup captivation. It sounds more aggressive than my SOB in terms of drive, the reason I still keep the default pickup in there. The neck profile is a ready rival to Ibanez's Super Wizard. I simply love this one.

Rich brothers

It seems that the BC Riches I own both sport a single humbucker. I get people telling me these are unworthy instruments, very restrictive tone-wise due to the solitary pickup at the helm but I repeatedly tell them everybody's tonal needs are different, some of us do not need excess, we need what gets the job done.

• ABOVE: Son of Beast
• BELOW: Space Face Ironbird