Nailbombs of Miracle Man for death metal??

[EffigyForgotten]

Miracle Man definitely.

[serch777]

Thanks a lot for the kind replies guys! I'll probably get the Miracle Man set, as I think they are suited better for the tone I want to achieve.  :mrgreen:

[Dave Sloven]

The Nailbomb is more something that I would use for later Sepultura

Yes, it would be perfect for Chaos A.D. era Sepultura.  It's also well suited to all kinds of hardcore music.  I find that I have to spend a lot of time fiddling with the pots to get other sounds out of it.  The Miracle Man seems like a much more 'metal' pickup.  You can also do Ramones songs quite well, but they don't come out like the originals, but more like the hardcore covers of them by RDP etc.  I imagine the C-Bomb to be somewhere in between.

In saying this I don't mean to imply  that the A-bomb is not 'versatile', just that in my experience (in the SG at least) it is not as versatile as claimed.  It is versatile in the sense that it is good for all kinds of hardcore and punk (I haven't tuned down with it yet so not sure how good it is with grindcore), and can play some pretty mean punkish versions of AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, Guns and Roses, etc too.  You can play Sabbath etc on it if you roll back the pots some but the closer you get to 10 on the pots the more hardcore punk it sounds.  To the extent that '90s metal had that influence too you can get those sounds from it easily.  It wouldn't be the most natural choice for something like a Chuck Schuldiner sound though.

[Mrkhorne]

Alot of the bands that used sunlight back in the days used Entombed V-5 pickups that were in most of the Ibanez guitars back in the mid-late 80s. (Ibanez DT-350,etc)

Ive actually tried these pickups with an HM-2 using the original amp entombed recorded left hand path with, it sounded quite mushy and undefined. I noticed the sound was alot clearer and meatier with low-gain pickups.

The pickups that were used were by no stretch of the imagination quality

alot of the sound came from the amp and mixing, pretty much, analog equipment, saturation and so forth. I think youll be good with anything, my ceramic warpig gives a heavy bite too it with yet alot of definition and clarity. ever considered those?