FS: Bare Knuckle Pickups (Painkiller, Nailbomb, Warpig, etc)

@zimbloth hey man! I need a BKP like the Duncan Custom. Which one is that? Alnico Nailbomb?

I need an 8-string in an active housing, so I can’t just order a Duncan. The Duncan Distortion is just a bit brighter and tighter than what I like, for what it’s worth.

Guitar has a Mule at the bridge right now but it just doesn’t have enough mid saturation or grunt for what I want.

Thanks!

 

Thanks man! I think it’s that clarity that’s getting on my nerves since I’ve started using a Super Lead; bright amp with super clear pickups has just too much jangle and chime. So I’m wondering if what I want is something wound hotter and more compressed, which I fear is not the Black Dog?

 

Hey Nick,
I have a PRS Custom 24 Wood Library swamp ash bosy flame maple neck and ebony fretboard. I was thing cold sweat neck/painkiller bridge but also thinking juggernauts. I mostly play thrash metal/90's metal. Thanks

 

Hey Nick,
I picked up a set of Silo's from you to put in an all mahogany PRS Standard 22 and I still am on the fence of whether or not I like them. The guitar is definitely quite dark. The bass isn't boomy but it's almost too much for me, and they also have more of a single coil pick attack that sits weird with me. I have an Aftermath bridge/Coldsweat neck in an SE24 that I love. Definitely like the punch and aggression of the Aftermath. If I wanted to go more aggressive than the silo, what are some alternatives to the Aftermath you'd recommend? I was thinking Painkiller or Ceramic Nailbomb.

 

Thanks for the reply Nick. I seemed to have solved my issue with the Silo's. I lowered the pickups a tad and went down a size in gauge with my strings and it actually made quite a noticeable difference in tone. The thickness is no longer overbearing and the pick attack is more aggressive and snappy. They sound fantastic.

I'll keep the C-Bomb in mind for future guitars. I like bright pickups, the Cobra bridge in my strat is probably one of my favorite sounding pickups ever for metal.

 

@zimbloth Hi Nick! I have new Strandberg Standard 6-string coming in and i’m already preparing for a pickup swap. Looking for a bridge pickup for that dry and bity modern metal tone, without getting overly harsh and icypicky on higher strings. If that’s achievable. Basswood body, quilted maple top and roasted maple neck/fretboard. I ho between drop C and Drop A.

I feel like blackhawk could work, but i’ve also heard good things about ragnarok and juggernaut. Maybe some alnico variation? You have any recommendations?

 

I emailed bkp and they strongly recommended holy diver, being slightly darker and thicker than the ones i listed above. HD sounds pretty perfect fit so i probably go with that.

I just bought a second hand Schecter banshee7 and looking for pickups for it aswell. Kinda torn between c-pig and c-bomb, to pair with cold sweat in the neck. Alder body, maple neck and ebony fretboard. Tuning to drop G# with 10-64 strings. Playing mainly through neural dsp Nolly and Cali.

 

thank you sir!

 

Hi all,

I'm in need of a passive-sized, open-coil 8-string pickup. The guitar is too resonant and doesn't drive an amp as hard as my other guitars with the same pickup.

Right now it has a Dimarzio Super Distortion 8 and it is not enough output or oomph.

So I'm looking for something very high output. Tight. And very saturated.

Any suggestions for a Bareknuckle pickup?

 

Tell us more about your guitar, amp and prefered tone please

 

Thanks for trying to help but I don't know what else to tell you. The specific 8-string guitar has a spongy/resonant thing going on, and I'd like something tighter with more output than the Dimarzio SD, which I generally like in other guitars (hot, saturated tone).

For amps, mostly a Marshall 2204/Boss SD-1. But I have a 5150 and Tremoverb and AC30 and honestly use the Axe FX versions of those most of the time.

Of the Bare Knuckle range, which ones are going to be rather hot and tight but also saturated. That last part is key: I've tried a few Bare Knuckles before (Mule and Holy Diver) and found them too dry.

Dimarzio doesn't seem to offer what I would since since the SD itself isn't working. The Duncan Distortion 8 might work. Ideally I'd probably want the Fluence Modern but this guitar is routed for open-coil passives.

 

painkiller sounds up your alley, though they work best in darker sounding guitars (as they're extremely bright/icepicky in the wrong guitars).
8 strings are hard to balance out sound wise ime. Have you asked tim or the guys at bkp yet?

 

^^^
Painkiller sounds good, Ragnarok has even more output

 

No, I haven't asked them yet.

I'm totally happy with the sound of my Schecter 8s (all three of them, but they're essentially the same guitar). But this one, I think the bridge pickup is too close to the neck, which is making it sound too round and with too many overtones.

I wonder if I should just have the builder make a new body and shift the pickup back 5mm or so. Not sure if that's the difference maker here or not. But it's definitely about 5mm closer to the 12th fret.