Got to get rid of these blackouts!

[mniel8195]

Hey guys I've posted this before but I have had a change of heart for what kind of pickup I want in my Bernie Rico hesperian 7 bolt on. Once again it is a mohagany body/ maple neck/ ebony board. The guitar is dark and the wood naturally compresses the notes. I want something that is going to sound brutal in this guitar but fits the fact that it is a darker rounderguitar. It needs to be tight as hell for the low b or a when I choose to drop it down. I'm suck between 3 pickups
rebel yells which I have owned and are awesome
Painkiller which I think will be the most extreme sounding with a killer mid quality
Or the Blackhawks which look amazing but Not that many people have played them
I would consider the aftermath but I think its going to sound tO round in this guitar.
I dot care for the pickup to be super versatile...like I said I've owned a rebell in a 6 string and that can do anything so I'm not worried about it. Please help me I'm trying to get hear bad boys ordered asaP! Ps I prefer a brighter more prevent pickup with more high mids than low. Open to different magnet types.

[Mr. Air]

I think the Painkiller is what you need. It will have the tightness and even out your dark sounding guitar.

[TheyCallMeVolume]

I'd say you basically just listed all the attributes of a Rebel Yell... go for it!

[Madsakre]

Please. Buy the blackhawk so i can hear them! ;)

[TheyCallMeVolume]

I guess someone's gotta be the first...

[darrenw5094]

I guess someone's gotta be the first...

The shape of them will put some people right off straight away. If they were made with normal bobbins, if possible, they would be on the radar more often.

[OddFutureWolfGang]

Please. Buy the blackhawk so i can hear them! ;)

I'd get them right now but I'm afraid the output will be too low

[FELINEGUITARS]

I have the Blackhawks in two guitars - one an ash bodied  thin bodied guitar and the other is an Ibanez S series with a mahogany body.
In the ash they are a bit toppy and less so in the mahogany (although the S series is not as full as most mahogany guitars would be and still sounds pretty bright.
I want to try these in a thicker guitar or a Les Paul now to see how the extra beef that the guitar has fits in with the Blackhawk pickups

The blackhawk is clear and bright sounding and really benefits a guitar that is beefy or dark IMO
The output  is a whisker below the Rebel Yell from what I have found

Here they are in the ash body
http://youtu.be/uzLjU-g5h9U

I have both the 6 and 7 string versions  in stock if someone wants to buy from us :)

[mniel8195]

im going to pull the trigger on the rebel yells...i dont want to risk not liking the other pickups, plus the rebell is more versatile and is going to sound more natural than the painkillers

[mniel8195]

after speaking with nick over at axe pallace ive decided to get a calibrated set of holy divers. he is a bernie rico jr owner and is very familiar with the style of guitar i have. he had mentioned either the black dog or holy diver and after further discussion i placed an order on a calibrated set of camo divers. should be in in 2 weeks!

[darkbluemurder]

Of the pickups you included in your shortlist I only have the Rebel Yell and it should do what you want.

Cheers Stephan

[Slartibartfarst42]

Different people have their favourites and I've noticed that Nick recommends the Holydivers a lot in the same way that I find BKP tend to default to Nailbombs a lot. The Holydiver is my personal favourite pickup by some margin but I'd describe it more as 'smooth' rather than 'brutal' and although I suppose you could argue it's quite tight, I think of it more as highly articulate and certainly not 'tight as hell'. As I say, it's easily my favourite pickup and it's the most versatile I've tried. It loves an overdrive pedal if you want really heavy tones and I hope you like it but it's not what I would have suggested for 'brutal' and 'tight as hell'.

[OddFutureWolfGang]

I have the Blackhawks in two guitars - one an ash bodied  thin bodied guitar and the other is an Ibanez S series with a mahogany body.
In the ash they are a bit toppy and less so in the mahogany (although the S series is not as full as most mahogany guitars would be and still sounds pretty bright.
I want to try these in a thicker guitar or a Les Paul now to see how the extra beef that the guitar has fits in with the Blackhawk pickups

The blackhawk is clear and bright sounding and really benefits a guitar that is beefy or dark IMO
The output  is a whisker below the Rebel Yell from what I have found

Here they are in the ash body
http://youtu.be/uzLjU-g5h9U

I have both the 6 and 7 string versions  in stock if someone wants to buy from us :)

You just made it alot harder to order aftermaths for my hellraiser. Congrats lol