METAL MACHINE GUITAR NEEDS ONE HELL OF A PICKUP...

[cthulhu]

Hi friends!

I would like to get some advise from you guys. Since I read so much knowledge from this forum, I hope you can help me on this one...

I have some guitars, but, my first and true love, is a Warlock luthier made with customs specs. That sounds just so big and crushing for the metal mayhem we all need in our everyday´s life. Actually, the warlock has loaded a Painkiller bridge, but I have realized that for the sound i am after, the pickup does not fit at all.

The guitar is a Mahogany body/maple neck/ebony fretboard. 24 frets shot scale 24,75" with floyd. Sounds umplugged very full bodied and its voice is low/dark.

I am in a crossroad, trying to choose the right pickup, and i narrowed it to these 3:

Cold sweat
Ceramic Nailbomb
Aftermath

I want something with highs, to compensate te tone of the guitar, and tight, but grindy. To play metal mostly, extreme metal. Think Behemoth sound . The guitar is tuned to B (6 strings)

Could you guys compare the pros and cons of getting one of them uppon the others?
Wich one sounds similar to the painkiller? (it is not the sound i am after)

Thanks.

[Shotgun]

Cold Sweat has more highs, less lows and not as high-mid oriented than the Painkiller and not so hot.

C-bomb is about an overwound Cold Sweat, more output and more agression.

Aftermath is very new model, but as the others say it sounds a bit darker than PK, more low-mids, more highs and less high-mids than the Painkiller but it is more tight.

I think you could choose berween the C-Bomb and Aftermath.
C-Bomb has more organic tone, Aftermath has more clinical.
In my opinion naturally :D!

[Transcend]

Cold Sweat has more highs, less lows and not as high-mid oriented than the Painkiller and not so hot.

C-bomb is about an overwound Cold Sweat, more output and more agression.

Aftermath is very new model, but as the others say it sounds a bit darker than PK, more low-mids, more highs and less high-mids than the Painkiller but it is more tight.

I think you could choose berween the C-Bomb and Aftermath.
C-Bomb has more organic tone, Aftermath has more clinical.
In my opinion naturally :D!

have you played the aftermath?

i dont find it to be clinical at all.

the official clips just show that side that is achievable with it.

To the op

I would say if your guitar naturally has a lot of low end then the CS sould work really well

[Isa]

Ha ha. Ive been asking people for their advice for the Behemoth sound for a while from BKP users. So glad someone else is looking for it too. I usually say I want Behemoth tone with better highs.
Im in a similar crossroads, but its between the Warpig, C-Pig, and Aftermath through a Mahogany V.
Ill be paying attention to this thread.

[Grim]

Hi friends!

I would like to get some advise from you guys. Since I read so much knowledge from this forum, I hope you can help me on this one...

I have some guitars, but, my first and true love, is a Warlock luthier made with customs specs. That sounds just so big and crushing for the metal mayhem we all need in our everyday´s life. Actually, the warlock has loaded a Painkiller bridge, but I have realized that for the sound i am after, the pickup does not fit at all.

The guitar is a Mahogany body/maple neck/ebony fretboard. 24 frets shot scale 24,75" with floyd. Sounds umplugged very full bodied and its voice is low/dark.

I am in a crossroad, trying to choose the right pickup, and i narrowed it to these 3:

Cold sweat
Ceramic Nailbomb
Aftermath

I want something with highs, to compensate te tone of the guitar, and tight, but grindy. To play metal mostly, extreme metal. Think Behemoth sound . The guitar is tuned to B (6 strings)

Could you guys compare the pros and cons of getting one of them uppon the others?
Wich one sounds similar to the painkiller? (it is not the sound i am after)

Thanks.

Painkiller...

[cthulhu]

Thank you Grim...

i dont know, but my spider senses tell me to go the Cold Sweat route, I dont know why...

Is it a good choice to get extreme metal tones? i dont need a pickup with lots of output power, I just want the correct voice,  the gain can be added afterwards.

[ericsabbath]

the cold sweat is crunchy, but not grindy

[dheim]

i'd say C-Bomb, but i haven't tried the Aftermath.
the Cold Sweat could be a little too "mild" for your needs...
anyway i assume that for some reason you're keeping the C-Warpig out of the range...

[Roobubba]

i'd say C-Bomb, but i haven't tried the Aftermath.
the Cold Sweat could be a little too "mild" for your needs...
anyway i assume that for some reason you're keeping the C-Warpig out of the range...

Ceramic warpig was what I thought of from your first post, too...

[cthulhu]

The C-Pig was the first pickup I installed on that guitar

Great tone, but lows were really HUGE on this guitar. I am after something more balanced.

[dheim]

The C-Pig was the first pickup I installed on that guitar

Great tone, but lows were really HUGE on this guitar. I am after something more balanced.

ah, ok!

well, i say C-bomb, then!