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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: thomasterrible on July 14, 2009, 05:56:03 PM

Title: Difference/suggestions between a few choices please?
Post by: thomasterrible on July 14, 2009, 05:56:03 PM

I have a Miracle Man on the way for my new BC Rich Draco upon advice from Tim.  One important aspect was good pinch harmonics.  I look forward to installing it as soon as it arrives.

I do have a few other guitars that I would like to try other BN pups in and am looking for advice on a few other attractive pup offereings.

These would be for my Epi LP Black Beauty and my USA Jackson KE-2 Kelly.

I will obviously find out soon what the MM sounds like but the others that I am considering are

War Pigs
Nail Bomb
Pain Killer

Can someone let me know the difference between the characteristics of these pickups and perhaps how they differ from the Miracel Man since I will have one of those soon and be able to  know exactly what it sounds like.

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Difference/suggestions between a few choices please?
Post by: MDV on July 14, 2009, 06:39:11 PM

One of the characteristics is two of them are one word.

Welcome n00b!

Short version, compared to MM

A-Pig - fatter, grindier, more compressed, gainer, bit looser, crunchier, more mids, similar bass, less treble.
NB - Much fatter, sweeter high end, slightly tailed off, looser (also than the pig) bigger sound, much more mids, richer, more organic (than the pig as well), lush cleans, not quite as hot or compressed.
PK - Tighter, more attack, similar bass, less low mids, more mids-mids and much more high mids, less treble, slightly hotter, more percussive, fatter, bigger, grindier.

All of them clean up and roll back better than the MM, imo. Order of goodness for this (again, imo):

WP
PK
NB

With quite a big jump in quality of lower gain and cleaner sounds (especially vol roll off - the MM is quite unusual for a BK in that its not really happy unless its going full tilt) to the WP, then that and the PK are pretty close (I could see how someone would disagree with that order) then the NB is way out front in versatility/volume controllability.

Title: Re: Difference/suggestions between a few choices please?
Post by: MDV on July 14, 2009, 06:41:18 PM

Oh, and you wont know exactly what it sounds like unless you put it in at least a couple of guitars - BKs are very heavily influenced by the tone of the guitar.