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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: MDV on April 23, 2009, 05:17:06 PM

Title: Nailbombs
Post by: MDV on April 23, 2009, 05:17:06 PM
Just put some in an Epi LP for a customer.

They are indeed better than I than my previous experience indicated.

Acoustically the guitars a lot middier and quite a bit bassier than the previous one I tried them in, and they have a thick punchy low mid that didnt come out last time I tried them (presumably because the guitar didnt have it - cant pickup whats not there), they have a strong attack, quite even sounding in this guitar, and are tighter too.

I like.

Not enough to replace any of my other high output BKs with, but I like.

Lesson learned (well, revised - BKs sound very different in different guitars).

That will be all.
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: Dr. Vic on April 23, 2009, 05:21:37 PM
This is Breakin' newwwws !

Thanks for the update review  :lol:  And enjoy ! :twisted:
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: MDV on April 23, 2009, 05:22:41 PM
This is Breakin' newwwws !

Thanks for the update review  :lol:  And enjoy ! :twisted:


i aint gonna enjoy - they're not mine.

But yeah, I thought out publish my expanded and revised experience of them, since its quite different to what I heard last time.
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: Dr. Vic on April 23, 2009, 05:32:43 PM
they are not yours......but maybe the idea to buy them will slowly come to your mind during the night...  :twisted: :twisted:
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: MDV on April 23, 2009, 05:37:17 PM
they are not yours......but maybe the idea to buy them will slowly come to your mind during the night...  :twisted: :twisted:

Unlikely. Since I'd have to oust one of my other pickups, and I'm happy with them all as they are.

Besides, I dont know how well what I heard would take to being tuned through the floor (I play in drop A# with 12-64s, this was 10s in E, and no way to change that, since its not mine and I dont want to waste a set of strings on the test (and I'd have to recut the nut anyway, and recieved no instructions and have no liberties to do so with the chaps guitar)).
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: Denim n Leather on April 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
BKs are very responsive to the guitar they are in!

I've gone back and forth many times on Nailbombs, myself. It basically comes down to the fact that I prefer ceramic pickups for metal.
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: Dr. Vic on April 23, 2009, 06:02:44 PM
btw...Have you already been curious to test a C-NB in your rig yet ? 
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: MDV on April 23, 2009, 06:06:47 PM
btw...Have you already been curious to test a C-NB in your rig yet ? 

Mildly curious. Certainly moreso now. Like Ben I gravitate very much to ceramic bridges (with the exception of the Pig, which I have A5 and C versions of, and love both).

I may go for the C-Bomb next if I stumble on a guitar that sounds like it might sound good in it.
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: Dr. Vic on April 23, 2009, 06:13:52 PM
It would have surprised me if you said otherwise  :lol:

I may go for the C-Bomb next if I stumble on a guitar that sounds like it might sound good in it.

......and.....may I ask.... in what kind of guitar would you imagine a C-NB to sound good, and why  :?: 
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: MDV on April 23, 2009, 06:53:42 PM
It'd need a punchy low end and strong midz, good chime to the top end but nothing too bright. I think thats what went wrong last time - acoustically bright guitar, not much going on in the lows. It'd probably go really well in my dean custom shop and I guess really well in my jackson, but those positions are taken.
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: HTH AMPS on April 23, 2009, 10:35:54 PM
It would have surprised me if you said otherwise  :lol:

I may go for the C-Bomb next if I stumble on a guitar that sounds like it might sound good in it.

......and.....may I ask.... in what kind of guitar would you imagine a C-NB to sound good, and why  :?: 

a big slab of mahogany would do the trick - I'm talking Gibson Explorer here.

Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: MDV on April 24, 2009, 12:13:51 AM
It would have surprised me if you said otherwise  :lol:

I may go for the C-Bomb next if I stumble on a guitar that sounds like it might sound good in it.

......and.....may I ask.... in what kind of guitar would you imagine a C-NB to sound good, and why  :?: 

a big slab of mahogany would do the trick - I'm talking Gibson Explorer here.



Yeah, that'd fly.
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: Fikealox on April 24, 2009, 01:14:46 AM
Ahh, it's settled - I'm swapping the magnets in my SG's Nailbombs :D
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: ericsabbath on April 24, 2009, 01:53:40 AM
my next les paul will probably have nailbombs
Title: Re: Nailbombs
Post by: dheim on April 24, 2009, 08:18:25 AM
it's easy. BUY A NEW GUITAR!