Miracle Man vs Ceramic Warpig vs Ceramic Nailbomb.

[Roobubba]

Seriously, just buy the painkiller and stop worrying about it! If I were to hazard a guess at the rate of Tim's suggestions being unsuitable (from reading the forums), I'd have to put it somewhere in the 0.1-0.5% range.
His suggestion for PK for your requirements is spot on. If you actually turn out not to be in the 999 out of 1000 category of happy punters, then you send the pickup back for a miracle man or ceramic nailbomb (Bareknuckle Pickups have EXCELLENT customer service!). But, here's the big one, you won't be unhappy with it. Just take that from us here who have all bought pickups with Tim's recommendations and been extremely happy with them.

IMHO, it's not worth you trying to second guess how the pickup will sound. When you have it in your guitar and playing through your amp, you'll find out. Anyone who tells you they know exactly how it will sound before hearing it is lying. We can tell you it will be awesome, and it will be able to nail the tones you mentioned, but that's as far as we can go, and as this is your first BKP, so you haven't yet had the delight of hearing one in your rig, you'll just have to trust Tim's and our advice on this one.

Now stop worrying about it, and buy it! We wanna see pics and hear clips! :)

[lulusg]

True!!!

[AndyR]

Seriously, just buy the painkiller and stop worrying about it! If I were to hazard a guess at the rate of Tim's suggestions being unsuitable (from reading the forums), I'd have to put it somewhere in the 0.1-0.5% range.
His suggestion for PK for your requirements is spot on. If you actually turn out not to be in the 999 out of 1000 category of happy punters, then you send the pickup back for a miracle man or ceramic nailbomb (Bareknuckle Pickups have EXCELLENT customer service!). But, here's the big one, you won't be unhappy with it. Just take that from us here who have all bought pickups with Tim's recommendations and been extremely happy with them.

IMHO, it's not worth you trying to second guess how the pickup will sound. When you have it in your guitar and playing through your amp, you'll find out. Anyone who tells you they know exactly how it will sound before hearing it is lying. We can tell you it will be awesome, and it will be able to nail the tones you mentioned, but that's as far as we can go, and as this is your first BKP, so you haven't yet had the delight of hearing one in your rig, you'll just have to trust Tim's and our advice on this one.

Now stop worrying about it, and buy it! We wanna see pics and hear clips! :)

Listen to this man, he speaks much truth :D

(Unless he starts lecturing you on telecasters, Sir Paul, and various other subjects close to his heart - feel free to ignore or abuse him strongly when he passes any comment on those :lol:)

Seriously though, what Roo says is absolutely "it" on choosing a first BKP.

We all know how you're feeling, we all went through it to some extent. It seems like a huge commitment, what if I choose the wrong one? I spent weeks worrying about it. I needn't have bothered...

Personally, I believe that for a first BKP, as long as someone doesn't go and pick a vintage when they know they want modern, as long as they pick one of the ones in the right ballpark... then their choice is going to be right no matter what they do on a first BKP - the minute you stick it in a guitar and hear the difference from the old pickup, you know it was the right decision.

And if you have a Tim recommendation as well, then it's a no brainer, that's the one to get.

You'll be fine :D

[MDV]

I ignored tims recommendation once.

I ended up sending the pickups back to get a replacement. I got what he recommended, I used them for years.

Tims most recent recommendation for me has become my go-to favourite pickup.

Get the painkiller. Stop procrastinating.

[James C]

+1 to the above, Tim's recommendations are always (in my experience) spot on.