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scooped mids
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Bare Knuckle
Bare Knuckle Painkiller
A neck humbucker with a ceramic magnet and vintage output.
vintage outputmid-forwardtight & aggressive
Specs
- DC resistance
- 13.1k
- Inductance
- 5.40 Hmeasured, 1 reading
- Magnet
- Ceramic
- Coil
- Hum-cancelling
From Bare Knuckle's published specs ↗ (opens in a new tab). Traits come from these specs by stated rules.
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What others say
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Painkiller Humbucker Set Tone Test with Dan Stevens
Bare Knuckle Pickups Painkiller Demonstration by Dan Stevens
“I'm digging how the lows remain full without getting dark or muddy.”
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