i think i got a pretty good punk rock tone with my A-Bomb. check it out

[littleredguitars2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQQ4hjB1Xs

this is me playing some green day. simple stuff i know but i think it gives a good idea what kind of tone the A-bomb has. at least through my mesa boogie dual rectifier and orange ppc212c cab

[Dave Sloven]

Nice tone! Really suits the song.  As I said in the 'best punk pickup' thread, the A-Bomb suits it down to the ground.  It has that brrraaawwww brrraaawwww thing going on, especially through V30s, and even more so in an SG.  Dig in a little more and you should get that hardcore aggression ripping out of it, back off a bit on the knobs and you can get the Sex Pistols thing happening.

[littleredguitars2]

yeah i need to mess around with my amp settings a bit when i use this guitar. i'm so used to using a much more muddy/low end pickup through this amp and i think it sounds great with the settings i stick with, but when i combine it with the nailbomb, it needs a bit more.

[fps_dean]

Nice tone! Really suits the song.  As I said in the 'best punk pickup' thread, the A-Bomb suits it down to the ground.  It has that brrraaawwww brrraaawwww thing going on, especially through V30s, and even more so in an SG.  Dig in a little more and you should get that hardcore aggression ripping out of it, back off a bit on the knobs and you can get the Sex Pistols thing happening.

See I would never have figured the Abomb would be appropriate for punk, but this has proved me wrong.  But of course, if I try to play punk I start palm muting everything...

[littleredguitars2]

i posted an old blink 182 song recently when i still had this pickup. if you're interested check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9vgL7pfVQ

the first 40 seconds or so are pretty boring so feel free to skip ahead.

still, i didnt like this pickup much for this guitar.

[Dave Sloven]

Listening to this clip your guitar has a nasal quality to it that the A-Bomb didn't have in my SG.  In the SG it literally sounded like RDP/Sepultura/Nailbomb 24/7 with the volume and tone up, just super-aggressive mids.  Even playing stuff like 'Victim of Changes' (Judas Priest) it had that character!

It's interesting to think about how different guitars pick out different qualities of a pickup

[littleredguitars2]

Listening to this clip your guitar has a nasal quality to it that the A-Bomb didn't have in my SG.  In the SG it literally sounded like RDP/Sepultura/Nailbomb 24/7 with the volume and tone up, just super-aggressive mids.  Even playing stuff like 'Victim of Changes' (Judas Priest) it had that character!

It's interesting to think about how different guitars pick out different qualities of a pickup

yeah i never wouldve guessed how differently it could have acted compared to the clips i've heard before hand

[Cam_H]

Takes me back to my younger years these songs. Gives you a strange feeling which is hard to explain.

[littleredguitars2]

Yeah I know what you mean.  I'll never out grow this stuff but when I haven't Heard certain stuff in a while it does the same to me

[Cam_H]

Yeah I know what you mean.  I'll never out grow this stuff but when I haven't Heard certain stuff in a while it does the same to me

Was that Blink 182 cover off Cheshire Cat? One thing I remember off that album was that Tom's guitar tone sound HUGE. Especially the song Wasting Time. It sounded raw like Jack White. If you can't remember the song here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3mPUEihMs

I think from thi speriod even though their singing was awful, they had some great riffs. M+Ms was a good one :)

[littleredguitars2]

oh i know every blink song very well trust me. back then he used pretty much just his white strat with a dimarzio x2n pickup in it as far as i know. he switched to LPs not long after that, then back to the strats and finally to the es335s.

[Cam_H]

I know for definite he used a Duncan Invader in his candy coloured Strat, and was apparently in debt with Fender and Marshall, or something or other. Remember reading it in one of the sleeves in an old CD.

[littleredguitars2]

once he was endorsed by fender in '99. he went to the invader definitely. but back in the cheshire cat days was the dimarzio x2n. not sure what he used in his les paul standards around the dude ranch album though. and now he uses the gibson dirty fingers.

[Taylord]

Both videos sound pretty cool man. Good job!

[littleredguitars2]

thanks dude. i'll definitely be posting more stuff when i get my new pickups in. i can't wait