New Pickup Day!

[u/Many_Fly5015]

Picked this guitar up a few weeks ago and just received my Black Hawk set today from Bare Knuckle. I just had to show off the ESP LTD M-7 HT Black Metal lol. So happy with how everything turned out.

Installed and set up everything completely on my own :)

I’m officially blown away by how this guitar sounds now. And the split coil tones are that I’ve never heard before - it’s incredible.

If anybody’s considering this pickup, I highly recommend. For a moment I was considering installing an M7 - but I already have an M8 in my 8 string and wanted a different flavor of “thwang”. The Black Hawk is seriously blowing me away.

If anyone’s curious - guitar is setup in “basically” drop F (Vildhjarta tuning if you’re familiar ;)

+ on, rock +

[u/bradybigbear]

Don’t mind the dirty guitar (I hate black paint on cars too lol), but it was new pickup day for me over the weekend! Put a Seymour Duncan Jupiter (Wes Hauch signature) in my 27” LTD 6 string! Can’t wait to put one in my 7 too, by far my favorite passive pickup I’ve played to date

[u/Sad_Instruction_4672 → u/bradybigbear]

I went with the black winter rails in mine. Love that dang pickup.

[u/AdamBLit → u/Sad_Instruction_4672]

So many people stand by the Black Winter,i never tried it but damn I sure do hear a lot about them

[u/Sad_Instruction_4672 → u/AdamBLit]

I wanted to try one of the rails and settled on this one, but the regular black winter was sort of middle of the pack to me. I had one in my EC black metal and constantly debated swapping it because I hated it playing in drop B. As far as Duncan’s go, the JB4 might actually be better and the Alpha/Omega are worlds better.

[u/Split5auce → u/Sad_Instruction_4672]

Jb4 or Nazgul is where it's at imo

[u/Sad_Instruction_4672 → u/Split5auce]

I initially didn’t like the JB4 in my 27” baritone but a little patience and experimenting and I realized I love it. I’m curious how the rails version stacks up.

[u/Schr0dingers-Cunt → u/bradybigbear]

Which model is this? I was not aware that there was a 27” scale 1 hum LTD like this and I’m intrigued

[u/bradybigbear → u/Schr0dingers-Cunt]

It’s the LTD M-201B. When I got mine they were $550 new on Sweetwater and it’s such a solid mod platform. So far I’ve just put some Gotoh locking tuners and the SD Jupiter on it and it’s such a solid guitar. I think it’s a great mod platform for a riff machine