[sakeido]

No pics unfortunately, yet, because my camera is out of batteries and I don't have any sitting around the house. And I'm not about to stop playing these awesome pickups!
The Nailbomb I put in my Charvel has a camo cover, looks sweet, set it up with a push-pull pot so I have series and parallel options.. sounds fantastic in either mode. It's not the most saturated compressed pickup out there. It reminds me a lot of a VHT amp actually. More of the guitar's natural character and dynamics are coming through and the pick attack is more pronounced, so it has a snappier sound. But somehow, it is still really high output.. I have played higher output pickups for sure, but never any quite this articulate. EMGs and Blackouts don't even have as sharp of attack as this pup does, but they do have more saturated and gainier sounding sustained notes. Then again, they can't approach the dynamics this thing has and don't let each note in a chord ring out so clearly.

The real story is the Nailbomb 7. I am honestly not used to pickups sounding this good in a 7 string. Typically they seem to lack the lower mids - not something you miss riffing on the low B, but something I have always been bothered by when playing on the low E. Things just sound hollower in that region but this pickup does not have that problem. Its like Tim at Bareknuckle somehow found a way to magically make a 7 string pickup sound just like a 6 string pickup without getting muddy on the low B. This thing has the same attack and clarity as the 6 string version, but seems to be thicker on the sustained notes. That might be because I have it set higher than the other one, but I will probably back it off. It seriously is the best sounding 7 string pickup I have heard, and I used to have an S7320 with a Lundgren in it.

As far as that comparison goes, I was a fan of the Lundgren for awhile but it just didn't grow on me. Everyone says it is dynamic and this and that, but I didn't think it was. The Nailbomb has it totally beat in that department. The Lundgren was exactly what everyone compares it to - a passive EMG 81-7 - with all the same drawbacks (no dynamics) and advantages (ultra high output and punchy attack) except it had the added problem of being insanely crazily ice pick bright (and that was in a mahogany guitar with rosewood board). The Nailbomb, IMO, is the much better pickup.

[ohio_eric]

Excellent review!

[Psychoface]

cool! they sound/look pwnage

[Alpo]

I my Nailbomb! Best bridge pickup I've ever played.

[7 Dying Trees]

Yep, Nailbombs are awesome pickups, they really are. Another thing I'd mention is that they really catch that Seymour Duncan "bite" as well. Awesome pickups

[Apophis]

Cool

[angryman]

Originally Posted by 7 Dying Trees

Yep, Nailbombs are awesome pickups, they really are. Another thing I'd mention is that they really catch that Seymour Duncan "bite" as well. Awesome pickups

+1

Since I got a Nailbomb & cold Sweat combo in my 1527 i've never been happier!
Don't think I'll ever use any other Pickup from now on, the Nailbomb pretty much nails the Tone I hear in my head!

[-Nolly-]

Nailbombs are the shit indeed. You got the matching neck pups? They're friggin incredible - so clear and fluid under gain, and very PAF-y when clean. Can't wait to get my Painkillers now!

[Mattayus]

isn't the nailbomb a better pickup for metal than the painkiller? by its description the painkiller sounds a bit too much, but then again i've never heard one in action i dont think!

[ilyti]

Glad you like your 'Knuckles! I haven't tried the Nailbomb yet, but I'm sure I will at some point. I've got a set of Mules in my 7 but it's being re-wired at the moment. I'll have a review up when it's done. Getting Crawlers in my LP was a similar experience to what you described. Lots of dynamics, clarity, and harmonics.