Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: dcphillip on July 18, 2017, 05:47:56 PM
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Hey, first post here on the forum. Just bought a used ESP Horizon (neck-thru with mahogany wings, maple top, and ebony fret board), and I need to swap out the bridge pickup in it. It came with an Arcane Alnico 8 that I'm not digging at all. I'm not a fan of ceramic pickups, and this thing is like an alnico with all the characteristics I don't like about ceramic. Its way too smooth, kinda cold, and there's almost no string separation when playing big open chords.
I have two BK pickups in guitars at the moment- an A-bomb in an Edwards LP custom that I love, and a C-bomb that I tried in a Gibson LP (I hate it, and will probably sell it for another A-bomb). I would just double-down on another A-bomb for the Horizon, but its a very bright guitar, especially compared to my LP's. I did some listening to the clips on the site, and the alnico Warpig sounded very similar to the A-bomb, albeit with more low end and has tapered off highs/high-mids. I'm playing through a 90w Mesa Mark V and a Marshall Jubilee (both amps slice through the mix live) and will probably use this guitar for some mid-tempo death metal a la Bolt Thrower. My concern is that an A-bomb will leave me with too much brightness in this guitar combined with those amps, but I have zero experience with the warpig. Anyone have any insight between an A-bomb or an alnico warpig in thin, super-strat type guitars?
TL;DR- Alnico warpig or A-bomb for thin-bodied ESP Horizon?
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How would you compare A bomb and Cbomb? cheers
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How would you compare A bomb and Cbomb? cheers
The A-bomb and c-bomb are definitely voiced similarly, but the c-bomb is much more aggressive and colder sounding. It sounds like the bass and treble are boosted and the mid-scooped a little compared to the a-bomb. Higher output altogether. It also doesn't sound great with cleans. Even plugging into an interface and playing through plugins, the signal is way higher and peaking. I always have to turn the input down when using that guitar.
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Juggernaut maybe? You can really hear there's some alnico going on.
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I have Ceramic version of Nailbomb and to my ears Cbomb has good cleans for ceramic pickup. I really enjoy cleans on that pickup to be honest. Better than Miracle Man for sure,