Hi all. First post here, although I've been a long time reader of this forum. Just thought I'd share my experiences with an Alnico Nailbomb bridge in my Gibson SG Standard.
Having gleamed various opinions from the forum, mainly about the unsuitability of a Nailbomb in SG guitars, I had settled variously on Painkiller, Miracle Man, Cold Sweat and finally Rebel Yell to replace the stock bridge pickup which I felt, seemingly along with a large number of other SG owners, to be weak and muddy. Unknown to me, my wife and fellow bandmates did some research themselves and were told that a Nailbomb would be perfect for our style of music and guitar, and she got me it for my birthday.
Well, having had it's first couple of gigs, I can only say, WOW! It turned me into Jeremy Clarkson; chortling a lot and bellowing POWER at the top of my lungs. It's transformed my weak sounding guitar into a tone monster. I went for a coil split and treated myself to a pair of Jensen caps as well. The coil split is only really noticeable on clean and low gain settings, but it adds a whole new semi-stratty twang to riffs. Single notes really do jump out with this pup. If I strum a chord and arpegiate a few notes alongside it, they seem so sit on top in perfect compliment. It handles hard chugging rhythm chords, screaming leads and, roll the volume pot off slightly, it cleans up very well.
Sorry to drone on like this, but after all the negative posts about the whole SG/Nailbomb combo, I couldn't be happier. Now, about the neck pickup....?
