Hello!
I'm stu, been playing a good ten years
I play mainly extreme metal preferably doom/black and gore metal, tho I love good music and like allsorts.
After searching the web for a good while I need some help on buying a motherbucker for my guitar :D
typically I came across the latest seymour duncan blackout abh-2 which looks like a good pickup, I have a les paul standard with a livewire sd pickup in which is the older version of the blackouts that uses 2x 9v batteries to run :P
its a good pickup but I recently bought a Krozka Sharpe guitar and thats my main guitar now because of the tremelo system for the dimebag squeals and the fact the neck on the les paul needs repairing
the pickups on it are nice but to be fair not exactly what I need for my style of playing, I can get 7 seconds of pinch harmonic sustain from the livewire on the lespaul and only 3 seconds before the krozka sharpe passive pickups start diminishing
I looked at a number of options and am faced with a choice of either a seymour duncan active or a BKP passive (which look really good)
I've listened to a few samples on these forums and I was impressed with the sound of BKPickups
So I'm probably gonna buy some if there isnt a glaring reason why I need actives instead (didnt think so)
which to buy? that is the question, I liked the soundclip of the nailbombs as opposed to the warpigs but I know there was very very different setups in the eq
basically I want and need the HEAVIEST most CRUSHING sound humanly possible, slipknot is like jingle jangle go play on a banjo to me, think MORTICIAN, EXHUMED and PORTAL
in particular I want a pickup that would be able to handle the same sound as Exhumed's Slaughtercult album, thats a premium sound for me
Which one then, warpig or nailbomb? also does anyone know a comparison of the true output levels of emgs seymourduncan abh-2s and these 2 BKP's? it would be nice to know BKP's are superior output cos I've heard they are like double that of a emg 85 from browsing the net and forums
finally gotta love the idea of having a great pickup that not only delivers crushing distortion but also something I will be able to jam along to Ohm and bands like that , I like playing all kinds of stuff
thats why I'm registered here and not on the seymour duncan forum :)
please if you have any other suggestions do say, I'm not that learned in technical stuff but I know what I need and have been searching for the ideal guitar sound since I started playing
I like nice highs, I'm not really into the bass mid heavy gritty rumble, I want a DJUUUH power chug heavy on the palm mutes and harmonics with a squeal from hell
you lot know what I mean ;)
