Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: zipline 7020 on June 27, 2013, 12:54:55 AM
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So after looking around, I've decided to get the aftermath for my schecter 8 :)
its all mahogany with a quilted maple top
how will this react with the aftermath?
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Will be fine. I asked this question about my 7 string which is V shape, maple neck through, mahogany wings and quilt maple top. Tim recommended an Aftermath as it's got good bass response. But I had jumped the gun and gone a ceramic warpig and got too much bass.
I'd fire off an email to the guys telling them what you want. They answer back quick and no better people to ask than the guys that make them.
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I did, they either recommended the C-bomb, A-bomb, or Aftermath.
i think im gonna go aftermath, and save the c-bomb or a-bomb for a mean down-tuned 6 string. needs less tightness, more power haha
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If you are looking for an uber tight sound the AM is the ticket. It is also dry as a desert and heavy on the center mids though, so be sure that is ok for what you do. The center mids thing should actually play into extended scale, but the dryness is a matter of taste.
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what do you mean by dryness?
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This dryness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deQWEygmQVI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deQWEygmQVI)
When you listen to it it has that sharp and hard sound. Dry means the opposite of juicy and warm (more often found in Alnico Pickups).
This clip was made by the forum user Witeter who has recently swapped the Aftermath for a Warpig, here's his experience he made:
https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30099.0 (https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30099.0)
This is a clip by a mate of mine who was Alnico Warpigs in his LTD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG9VOBGBxb8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG9VOBGBxb8)
As you can hear they have a warmer sound than the Aftermath and aren't dry at all. However those two clips are showing off 6 String axes and for an 8 String I wouldn't use a Warpig since the Bass would be overkill. I think you'll do fine with the Aftermath, the Ceramic Nailbomb might sound a bit less "dry" though.
Hope that helps, cheers!
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Whew, that is a hard one to describe...I´ll give explaining it a go, but I hope someone else chimes in on that. After all I might soon go on to study English (for the record I don´t watch my spelling around here xD), but it is still my second language and I recon even for native speakers these terms are hard to elaborate on.
To try and get my point across I´ll have to go a bit overboard here, so take whatever picture you get and take it down a notch, I am just trying to get the idea of dryness across ;)
The AM has a very direct sound, unforgiving, not processed. There is not that much of a juicyness you´ll find in most other PUs to varying degrees. It is there, bäm, front row center, spotlight, no makeup. No distance, nothing coping with mistakes or imperfections, just brutal honesty. Surgical precision for better and for worse.
It has a tad more of the character you get when you DI record an electric guitar.
Pair that with a good and cooking tube amp and you get a sound that is brutally honest, direct to your face, but not dead or sterile.
To use a metaphor the Nailbombs are this big russian MMA fighter, who has been trained in wrestling, boxing and the likes, but is powered by a lot of rage, ripping and destroying his enemys in a fury, running em threw and pummeling them while they are on the ground. The AM on the other hand is more of a asian martial artist, trained in the likes of Kung Fu and Jiu Jitsu, he is cold, calculating and effective, stricking his enemys down with a single aimed blow.
Hope this helps to illustrate dryness and get the difference between the NBs and the AM across.
Also keep in mind though that the AM into a proper cooking tube amp still is organic, agressive and such, it´s no cyborg or something. Still human, but one in the way I described above.
Oh and the clips posted by guitarIv also give a good idea, though both PUs of course with the rest of the gear can also steered in different directions.
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Thanks so much for the replies!
after hearing what you all have said, Im going to get the Aftermath for my 8 string.
But I am keeping the Warpig, C-bomb, and A-bomb close at hand for either a mean drop tuned 6 or 7. They sound like they'd come close to the sound of breaking benjamin (phobia album) and RED (innocence and instinct/Until we have faces)
I know I've heard the A-bomb will do the trick but What about the other 2? the guitar would most likely be a mahogany one too.
(and by dropped I mean dropped B to dropped G area )
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Well for going that low I would probably stay clear of the Warpig as you should be getting far too much bottom end I think. Not that the WP can´t be dropped too, but I would probably not go lower than C and that just in a really bright axe.
The C bomb in comparison to the A bomb should hold low tunings even better as it will be tighter, with a tamed midrange (the alnico midrange is really abrasive) and a different cut in the high end characteristic to ceramic magnets.
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ok, well how would the c-bomb compare to the PRS tremonti pick-up. Because I've heard some great tones come out of it too.