The only Bare Knuckle pickups I've had are a calibrated set of Cold Sweats that I put in an Ibanez RGT42. That was a maple/walnut neck-thru with mahogany wings and while it was fairly bright, it wasn't intrusively so and seemed to work well. The Jackson I have at the moment is undoubtedly a brighter guitar, which is why I'm steering clear of the Cold Sweats this time and besides which, I want to try something new. It's a measure of how much I like BKP that I'm back again. I don't really want a single coil sound at all on the guitar (hence my earlier comment on the Slowhands) but I'd rather have a BKP single coil than anyone elses stacked humbucker. I'm sure they are all good pickups and in a way I feel like a bit of an arse dithering so much but the thick end of £250 on pickups is a hell of a lot of money for me so I want to make sure I get it right. I've listened to a lot of clips and it's confusing when the rigs obviously all differ but some do stand out for me:
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19648.0Both clean and distorted, the sound here seems very impressive and I'm guessing that a Jackson Kelly isn't a million miles away from my SL3 tonally, though I accept there are still a lot of variables.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef3kVURwCdwI don't know for sure but my guess would be that the Charvel in this clip is similar to mine tonally and again it sounds impressive. VERY tight and articulate. I might equally say that the Fender in this clip has tonal similarities to my guitar due to the maple and alder. Again, the tone is mightily impressive. Compared to the Nailbomb, the word for the Warpig that leaps to mind is 'BIG'. I don't know if the pickups in this clip are Alnico or Ceramic but they're bloody tight whichever they are. If they're Alnico V, I can't imagine how ceramics could be any tighter than that!
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20921.0This is the clip I mentioned in my last post. Again, I like it because I'm guessing that the guitar used isn't a million miles away from mine tonally but it's equally confusing because I like both pickups and in this clip they're doing very different things. The rhythm part played with a C-Pig is crushingly huge and does remind me of the original recording of that song even if it is undoubtedly heavier. However, the squeals and lead done with the Nailbomb is also sublime. At first I thought it was a no-brainer because I assumed that the Nailbomb would be far more versatile and more likely to give me those Gibson PAF influenced tones that I seem to gravitate towards but the more I read about the Warpig, the more versatile it appears to be. I simply can't choose between them :?