All user reviews of 5/5 for the Bare Knuckle Pickups Nailbomb

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I use it since 2011 on a guitar luthier


I had the Seymour Duncan SH-11 before. I wanted to go through in customizing my guitar and a friend told me about this mic: the nailbomb.
I kept the power of the sh-11 but with more precision saturated in a nice clean splité.

most: quality nickel finish
sound
and a set of strings in the pick box
micro splitable

least: a power play drawing cache abyss but good all the time use


price / quality ratio
bin for the price the quality was
Therefore initial investment for a micro but because hands ....

I do it again without problem

My gear: ibanez roadstar series II A, which must date of the beginning of the 80s. A skyscraper of 20 year old who has a pretty good violin. I had bought in a cash OCCAZ converter and I do not really regret it! (300 and some neurosciences) microphones were still a little HS.

I did replace all the LPs: by:
1 to 1 in round Bareknuckle Trilogy
2 to 1 Bareknuckle Irish Tour in the bridge
3 to 1 in acute BareKnuckle Nailbomb.

Basically it gives: 1 - Clear sound rich, and very hot jazz typ.
2 - a more bluesy
The intermediate position between 1 and 2 can sound a little funky
3 - Sound pais, fat, but rich and prcis for rock, metal, grunge punk's anything that balance. I t pat after having set a standard distortion mtal he could recognize songs by playing arpges. The sound of each note was apparent despite the mess of distortion.

I have used today so it's a first notice that I would certainly complt later, the time to get used to my new pickups.

What I like above all in the microwave, it is his cot: bold but prcis. You can do rock, punk or metal with ca.

Before buying this I had a micro Di Marzio, who had passed away. I did ask at the garage, micro guitar after buying it in custom shop. The above are perssonnes with jous unaninme sound is standard, and the guitar has nothing to do.

The price rapprot quality is excellent, it cost me 149 if I'm not mistaken that is the price of a micro industry, while this one is handmade.

In the long search for the perfect (is that even possible?) pickup in my Carvin Dc127 I have stopped with the nail bomb. The nail bomb is just a very well done pickup that does not only excel in metal but can actually provide tons of tones and has great response to picking dynamics and volume knob twiddling. My Carvin has a mahogany body, maple neck, ebony fret board, and a floyd rose. That combination can be pretty bright but with the nail bomb it's just a full sound with great string definition that can go from clean to modern metal easily. I previously tried the EMG 81, 85, Dimarzio tone zone, Seymour Duncan JB, Invader, and some others I can't think of right now. The nail bomb is better then all of them in this guitar in every way. The best I could describe it from those would be the fullness of the tone zone with much more clarity and attack and not the quacky kind that the JB gives in bright guitars.

It seems to have a fairly flat EQ curve as nothing really jumps out at you. Not too smooth and not too bright and packs a lot of punch without getting too bass heavy and flubbing out.It's tight when you play tight but softens up when you do which is something you do not find in many metal oriented pickups. This is also one of the very few pickups I have tried that I can actually use clean in the bridge position. It's still not as nice to me as a great neck pickup sound but far more useable than most. The price is high for these but the customer service is great. I bought this one used but when I was looking for a neck pickup I was given great advice by the company as to what would fit my needs. I don't think you can call up most big companies and get anything but a canned response or a link to their tone description page. If I could afford it I would have Bare knuckles in all my guitars but until the exchange rate gets more in my favor I think I'll just be stuck with the set in my main guitar.

The Nailbomb is one of the best all around pickups offered from Bare Knuckle pickups. Bare Knuckle pickups is a small boutique pickup company from the United Kingdom. They hand make their pickups to your specifications. Their lead pickup winder Tim Mills is a legend in the pickup industry. Tim has made many custom pickups for artists around the world. Many pickup companies mass produce their pickups and make them down to a cost. Bare Knuckles doesn’t spare any expense in the making of their pickups. Their goal in pickup design is ultimate tone and versatility. They use only the finest materials in their construction and they are all made by hand in house. Many companies make high output pickups that are great for metal and heavy rock but if you try to use them for anything else they fall on their face. Bare Knuckle pickups know that you may want to clean up your sound sometimes so they make their pickups able to do both, and they do both extremely well. A unique feature of Bare Knuckle pickups is that you can choose the type of finish you want on your pickup. You can get a classic nickle cover or a rusty distressed cover or even a camo cover. The pickup is voiced with a relatively flat EQ. No particular part of the sound dominates anything else. The Nailbomb is rated at 15.7k for the bridge position and 9.8k for the neck position. The sound is extremely clear. It is almost impossible to get a muddy sound from this pickup. These pickups are also very quiet when it comes to background noise, this is quite rare on high output pickups. The Nailbomb is a very articulate pickup and it cuts through the mix very well. The Nailbomb may be a bit expensive but for this tone and this versatility it is worth it.