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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: GuitarIv on January 09, 2013, 09:06:26 AM

Title: Comparison Aftermath - Holydiver
Post by: GuitarIv on January 09, 2013, 09:06:26 AM
Cheers guys,

I stumbled across this vid that I'm sure some of you will know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THPRzBBC_Xc

Now I own the Holydiver and I love the pickup, however in this video the difference between the two pickups isn't really evident, maybe due to the lack of quality. I know the Aftermath is tight as hell, dry sounding and crushing, but are there similarities to the HD?

Cheers
Title: Re: Comparison Aftermath - Holydiver
Post by: GuitarIv on January 10, 2013, 09:09:31 AM
No one? :o
Title: Re: Comparison Aftermath - Holydiver
Post by: darkbluemurder on January 10, 2013, 01:42:49 PM
Sorry - don't have any experience with the Aftermath, and this is probably the least likely pickup I will get from BKP. But I believe Eric Hellstyle has made some comparisons between the two, describing the Aftermath as having more output and being more scratchy on the topend.

Cheers Stephan
Title: Re: Comparison Aftermath - Holydiver
Post by: ericsabbath on January 10, 2013, 04:53:55 PM
Quote from: darkbluemurder on January 10, 2013, 01:42:49 PM
Sorry - don't have any experience with the Aftermath, and this is probably the least likely pickup I will get from BKP. But I believe Eric Hellstyle has made some comparisons between the two, describing the Aftermath as having more output and being more scratchy on the topend.

Cheers Stephan

this
I straight swapped them from aftermath -> holy diver -> black dog in my '73 lp custom

the aftermath was quite dry and mid heavy, with a ton of clean output/volume
the diver was less loud and more forgiving, but the voicing didn't change at all
not even less treble, just less picking response
bass was a bit slower, so it might have sounded just a little fuller, but it wasn't bassier at all
from the diver to the black dog, the main difference was a lower output and darker top (gotta mention that only this one was covered), but retained the same kind of mid centered dense tone, just less crunchy/aggressive in the upper mids

also had a bunch of other bkps in this same guitar, but only these particular 3 sounded similar to each other
Title: Re: Comparison Aftermath - Holydiver
Post by: GuitarIv on January 11, 2013, 12:00:42 AM
Cheers for the input guys!

Kinda funny to read that the Holydiver and the Aftermath aren't that different. Seems like the audio in the video isn't as misleading as I initally though of it :P