Suggestions For My Guitar.

[knifeinthemarathon]

Hi, this is my first post. I've been watching Bareknuckle pick-ups for a while now, and am hoping to get my guitar fitted with some soon.

My guitar is a bit of weird one, though: It's an ESP Stephen Carpenter signature model, which has a single coil in the neck, a humbucker in the middle and a humbucker in the bridge. I'm confident that the Nailbomb seems right for me for the brdige position, but I'm stumped as to what the middle and neck pick-ups should be.

I play quite heavy stuff (but not metal!) but also like to play clean stuff. The guitar also has a five way selector, so I'd need the other two pick-ups to give a consistant output.

The stock guitar was fitted with a generic ESP single-coil and middle humbucker and a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck in the bridge.

If you can help, I salute you.  

[HJM]

How about a calibrated nailbomb set - I'm sure Tim could make sure they all balance out, I'd go for a Trilogy in the neck to match the nailbomb volume.

[PhilKing]

If you want to get a cleaner sound you could do Emerald/Mule/Irish Tour, again as a calibrated set.  How old is the Duncan JB? If t is a new one, I find them pretty muddy, but I have a very old one (double creme*, no name and PAF style coils), which is sort of like the Emerald but without all the harmonic content!  

Another option, but a totally different sound, night be Crawler, HB size P-90, Irish tour.  I was going to put this in my PRS EG (with normal size P-90's), but went for 2 P-90's in the end.  I love the combination, but it depends how much you use the middle humbucker and whether you want to get the P-90 sound instead.

But really the man to ask is Tim.  He will go through the music and sounds you like, and then come up with the best combination.

Cheers
Phil