War Pig or Nail Bomb?

[rjtb69]

I know this is quite a common question, but reading through all these posts hasn't really helped me exactly.....anyway

I play a Maverick Xtreme through a Marshall AVT 150.  Problem is the stock pickups sound really weak and have no growl/punch at the bottom end.  I want my guitar to sound huge and when I hit the low E for it to really growl.  What pickup will help me achieve this?

Kinda songs I like to play are :
Newborn - Muse
Bliss - Muse
How I Could Just Kill A Man - RATM
Evil Dick - Bodycount
Rock and Roll Aint Noise Pollution - AC/DC
Stacked Actors - Foo Fighters
St. Anger - Metallica
I awake - Sound Garden
Also like to play Placebo, Feeder, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, The Pixies

So... I have got down to 2 options: The War pig or Nail Bomb for the bridge position. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated and if someone has one or even better both of these pickups and uploaded sound clip or two would be great! Especailly if playing a song from one of the bands above!

Cheers

[MDV]

Nailbomb.

The warpig would be fine if you dont use too much gain, but the WP would be too brutal for most of those. The NB wuld be brutal enough for the brutal ones and do the lighter stuff more convincingly.

(I guess: I have pigs, but no NB...better wait for an NB user to chime in, or maybe Tim or Steve).

[sgmypod]

for what you have mentioned nailbomb....still love my NB and my Pig

[Shag101]

Evil Dick - Bodycount

HAHAH!!!

I remember that song...
A nailbomb would do any body count song really well.

[fps_dean]

Nailbomb for the AC/DC for sure... Warpig would be way too brutal to effetively get AC/DC tones.

[blue]

you're talking about a pretty wide variety of sounds, a Mule might be suitable, although i wouldn't disagree with the majority in this case, a Nailbomb should be excellent

the one thing is, you mention St. Anger, my seven string Miracle Man gets that tone perfectly.  you know, it's actually very litle distortion, just to annoy metalheads(r'us).  clean channel driven hard gets it lovely!

[Antag]

Nailbomb.  There are too many things in that list that the WP would be too brutal for.  Even St Anger uses quite an open, mid-rangey sound (when compared to the tight/compressed/scooped sound on older metallica like justice for all).

I'd question whether you can ever really cover so many bases with one guitar, but I guess that's a discussion for another thread.  Either way, the Nailbomb is the most versatile of the BKPs I've played so far...

[rjtb69]

Cheers guys. So I'm going to go for the Nailbomb in the bridge and if I can afford it, get one for the neck too.  Does anyone know how much bigger the covered pickups are than the uncovered ones??  The pickups in my Maverick Xtreme are uncovered but I think the covered ones look so much cooler and would like to fit them if possible

Cheers

[Antag]

The mounting brackets are the same distance apart on both types.  As long as your pickguard isn't curved at the corners with your existing pickup, then a covered one should fit

To see what I mean look at the pickguard on my korina strat in the pictures thread, then look at the alder strat which has squared corners.

If you have mounting rings rather than a pickguard, then I'm almost certain that a covered one will fit.