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Dave Sloven

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Re: A-Bomb for Mahogany/Sapele guitar
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2015, 03:06:27 PM »
The C-Bomb is generally the safe option if you are worried about things getting too middy.

Comparison video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2kvQkpz5sM
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Re: A-Bomb for Mahogany/Sapele guitar
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2015, 07:22:38 PM »
The C-Bomb is generally the safe option if you are worried about things getting too middy.

Comparison video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2kvQkpz5sM

My only concern would be a tone that sounds too "scooped", processed, and/or shrill. 

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Re: A-Bomb for Mahogany/Sapele guitar
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2015, 12:46:02 AM »
Well I think you can hear in the video that the difference if fairly small.  The C-bomb lacks some of the mid range of the A-bomb but I wouldn't call that 'scooped' in the way that the Cold Sweat and Miracle Man are scooped.  BKP produce a lot of ceramic pickups and out of the range at least two of them - the Painkiller and the Aftermath - have very strong mids. In general where there is the option of ceramic and alnico magnets (i.e., the Nailbomb, Black Hawk, and Warpig) the ceramic will have less mids than the alnico but depending on the guitar that can be a good thing.  In the BKP range the more scooped ceramic options are often recommended for guitars with bright sounding neck materials like maple or ebony, and I think that is why the ceramic magnet was recommended to you
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Re: A-Bomb for Mahogany/Sapele guitar
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2015, 10:37:45 AM »
The only bkp that sounds scooped is the neck nailbomb
The c-bomb is very well balanced
Even the MM and CS that have a little less mids still have great cleans

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Re: A-Bomb for Mahogany/Sapele guitar
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2015, 03:56:01 PM »
I would have to agree with Eric here. I generally prefer middy pickups but I've owned both the Miracle Man and Cold Sweat and neither sounded anything like as scooped as I'd expected, though obviously the guitar they're in and the amp you use are big factors in this.
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