New to Bare Knuckle Pickups

[gui94]

Hi there. My name is Guilherme, I'm a guitar player from Portugal. I'm currently looking for some nice pickups for my 7 string guitar - an Ibanez S7420FM (Mahogany body w/ flame maple top - Made in Japan - 2000) - and everyone has recommended Bare Knuckle Pickups. I mostly play Death/Thrash Metal so I'm looking for a set of pickups who can give me some powerful distorted tones. But as I love to mixture some cleans too I'd like to have some beautiful clean tones too.
Well, as I was searching your site I noticed that the pickups don't have any kind of specification, only names like "Nailbomb", "Warpig" or "Black Dog", there are like 15 different models and I don't know what should I choose!
According to the sound I'm looking for, which pickups do you recommend? Or maybe you could tell me how the pickups sound?
I leave that to you.

Thank you very much for your support,
Guilherme Santos

[DimeZakk]

I had that guitar once and I put in a Painkiller 7String set - it sounded great!
The Painkillers are really tight, agressive and middy high gain pickups with a ceramic magnet. They sounded great in the mahagony body and kept the low b extremely tight when riffing - no mud at all, perfect for fast Metal stuff!

I would get a Cold Sweat Neck pickup for the Painkiller bridge in your case... The Cold Sweat matches in terms of output and it has a better cleansound than the Painkiller Neck pickup (it's great for leads too!)

[gui94]

Hmm, those seem nice. Thanks! Any other ideas? :D

[Roobubba]

I think DZ hits the nail on the head there - Painkiller sounds perfect for you.

As ever, best advice: e-mail Tim! (check front of BKP website for contact). He's very helpful, and no-one knows his pickups better.


Roo