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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: necrophonic on June 20, 2007, 02:07:27 PM

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: necrophonic on June 20, 2007, 02:07:27 PM

Hi all,
I'm considering upgrading the pups on my Ibanez S7420 (7 string) and I'm pretty much set on a nailbomb at the bridge but... what for the neck?

Ideally I'm looking for something that'll mainly be used clean, with a good smooth sound. At the moment I'm using a DiMarzio FRED on my 6 string for this purpose so something similar in response to that would be great.

Any recommendations on a BKP that fits the bill?

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: Antag on June 20, 2007, 02:11:42 PM

Either a Nailbomb or a Cold Sweat neck to go with a NB bridge.

NB is slightly better IMO at neck leads, but CS is an absolutely wonderful neck pickup - for clean or lead.  It compliments all the high output bridge models really well, a fantastic allrounder.  CS would be my choice.

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: kmanick on June 21, 2007, 12:40:53 AM

I've got a Carvin 7 with a Nail Bomb going in the bridge and I matched it with a Cold Sweat for the neck (per Tims suggestion)

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: PhilKing on June 21, 2007, 05:47:37 PM

I don't have a 7 string, but in my Ibanez I have the Nailbomb/Cold Sweat combo and it sounds great.

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: necrophonic on June 21, 2007, 09:03:40 PM

Thanks for the suggestions :)

Does anyone have any clips of Cold Sweat in the neck postion played clean?

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: Antag on June 21, 2007, 09:15:38 PM

There's some CS neck in this clip (http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6494) I posted a while back...

Title: Which neck pup to with nailbomb at bridge (7 string)
Post by: necrophonic on June 25, 2007, 01:36:32 PM

Thanks for the clip.
Any clips of the CS neck clean strummed?

I've heard a few lead lines with it now but I'd like to see how it rounds out on chords.