HI, I recieved my Afetrmath (bridge) today. I put it in my les paul without any hesitation. After setting up the guitar and messing around with the pickup height, I was impressed. My guitar was tuned to drop C with 11-56 strings, but I also tried it in drop D, played thru Orange OR15.
It's really bright (which I kinda like, especially for playing metal). Really dig the midrange push. It also has prominent low-mids, which gives it nice lead tone - it seems it would cut through the mix like a champ, but it is really bright. It is super tight, not that far off from an 81 (obviously not as tight, but has to be the tightest passive I've tried).
The pickup is actually fairly low output (lower than I expected), not a lot more output than a PAF. The clairity it has is insane. Cleans were also a lot better than expected, and what I like to do, roll off the volume to get cleaner tones was no problem for the aftermath. I had gain fairly high (2 o'clock - this amp actually has a lot of gain on tap), and it cleaned up really nice, despite having a lot of mids dialed in.
I would recommend it for more metal oriented styles.
Now that I've tried aftermath, I'm really interested in black hawks for another (mahogony) guitar. How are they compared to the aftermath? Do they have more of that bite that is usually associated with active pickups? Help would be appreciated!
