in my experiece, the aftermath has the same eq voicing as the holy diver
they're both center mid focused, not low mid
the painkiller is pretty close, but it delivers more aggressive upper mids
Why do many people here think the aftermath is the tightest BK? At that last part in the modern metal clip out of all of them the aftermath sounds the least tight.
The recordings are simply in place to give an Idea of what the pickups sound like. In your guitar, through your signal chain, into your amp & its eq, and your playing style is going to have a a detrimental impact in the way that the tone is actually going to sound.
That being stated, The Aftermath is considered the tightest pickup out of the bunch. I believe that the term tight is referring to the timing that the bass is delivered with the treble and mids when they are projected from the speakers.
