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Published on 06/24/11 at 08:46In 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.
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.