Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: EffigyForgotten on June 19, 2012, 05:38:36 PM
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Hey guys I have had the Holy Diver set for a while and considering how awesome they are i'm pretty curious about the cold sweat necks cleans/leads vs the Holy divers as well as out of the aftermath, holy diver and painkiller bridges which is the most aggressive sounding and has the most defined tone under lots of gain and the most clarity.
Also could I order black battleworn covers for my pickups even though they are already installed? I don't like the purple/black look as much as I excepted.
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Hey guys I have had the Holy Diver set for a while and considering how awesome they are i'm pretty curious about the cold sweat necks cleans/leads vs the Holy divers as well as out of the aftermath, holy diver and painkiller bridges which is the most aggressive sounding and has the most defined tone under lots of gain and the most clarity.
Also could I order black battleworn covers for my pickups even though they are already installed? I don't like the purple/black look as much as I excepted.
the cold sweat and holy diver neck models have pretty close specs, the cold sweat being a bit overwound, like a bridge pickup, therefore, middier, hotter and a little less bright than the HD
the painkiller is supposedly a triple ceramic holy diver
it's a bit more mid spikey, upper mids are quite hairy and aggressive, low end feels a bit more narrow and it's a louder and harder sounding pickup
the aftermath is pretty close to the painkiller, but a bit more like the holy diver
it has the dry picking response of the painkiller, but the top is a bit cleaner like the holy diver and the mids are more centered like the diver as well
sounds just a little darker and more refined than the painkiller, which is more "wild" sounding
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I got Holydiver neck and now I have Cold Sweat neck in PRS Custom 22, and like Cold Sweat a lot more.
EQ-wise CS has more bass and treble, and lot less mids than HD, but more articulate and crunchy.
When gain is applied - HD could sound fatter because of fat midrange and scooped bass and treble, but CS is more fluid and juicy, like it more.
CS is one of my favorite neck pickups ever.
Waiting a set for my Suhr Modern (basswood body with maple cap, maple neck and fingerboard) to arrive soon. I've ordered Emerald neck, 63' Veneer Slab Board single coil, and Crawler bridge, so I would post a review about Emerald later :)
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EQ-wise CS has more bass and treble, and lot less mids than HD
That is exactly the opposite of what I experienced - to me the HD neck has less mids and more highs than the CS neck. More bass - agreed. Both are great pickups depending on the guitar they are in. I would not replace the CS neck in my PRS Custom for a HD neck and I would not replace the HD neck in my swamp ash guitar - where the CS neck is in the bridge spot.
Cheers Stephan
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That is exactly the opposite of what I experienced - to me the HD neck has less mids and more highs than the CS neck.
Hi, Stephan!
I think it depends also by pickup height, BKP are very sensitive and can sound very different set to different heights.
Also I had covered HD and open-poled CS, this also make difference.
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Agree on pickup heights - they really make a difference.
But both of my pickups had a burnt chrome cover so no difference there.
Cheers Stephan