Warpig or Miracle Man, same old story...

[Don]

Variable coil-split.... hmm. I#ve installed a jimmy Page wiring in my Les Paul with 4 Push/Pull-Pots... at least I don't use it too often.... Both Pickups in series gives quite a good powerful sound for solos... out-of-phase I don't use it really, coil-split ok if you want it thinner, but a split HB doesn't sound as good as a real single coil in my opinion...

The woods of the les Paul are a bit exotic but not too much... Bahia might be, but the sound is great. Not too expensive... there's much more expensive wood out there (all those spalted, quilted and striped stuff) but that's more for the eye than for the tone....

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I've used the WP with my regular D-standard and drop-C tunings and it sounds awesome, but in standard it great too.  You really can't go wrong with the WP.  

Don't worry about it not having any highs - this is the usual scenario with mega-hot 'buckers but not the case with the WP.  You will have all the top end you would usually get from a nice balanced 'bucker.  I don't think the WP is 'dark' at all, it's just HUGE sounding with a phat bass end.

I'm gonna mess around with a variable coil-split on the WP at the weekend - that should be interesting.

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EXCELLENT. now iīm less worried about a possible lack of Highs from the WP
thankīs AGAIN man

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confusing ol that old school and modern... for me old school is like old slayer, venom kind a stuff, modern is like pantera or nevermore...

seems like today pantera is old school and system of a down is modern...

By the way WFD defleshed-under the blade was a great album....... modern guitar sound for me, but I think it's now old school, gotta get used to it...

I $%&#ing Love Defleshed.
but they QUITE
Q:/
Also.. i think they have an old school guitar tone, at least on their first 4 releases, cause the new one , reclaim the beat(new and last one) has a 7 string guitar and totally modern sound
Iīm not reffering to modern sound as an example of the $%&#ing BAD new metal eqs.. like linking park, and the likes.. that has the V type of equalization. only highs and bass boosted. mids scooped to death.
ahahah and silly/bad used ammounts of distortion
Thats Is musical homossexualism for me. ahaha hitīs a terrorist act against the MIGHTY AND UNHOLY CULTURE OF THE FULL DISTORTION
ahahahahahahahahahahaha

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^call me a noob, but how does a variable coil split work?

I've often wondered how much they have to pay to get dave mustaine to use the jb/jazz set, no metaller in their right mind would choose them. It certainly has its uses, they're both good for slightly grungy rock, but certainly not metal.

I usually consider pantera fairly modern, especially their last few albums.

That's quite an exotic lp, must have been some expensive wood...

i consider cryptopsy, decapitated, cephalic carnage, meshuggah, and New kreator sounds, very modern. pantera is kinda modern too, but not that much
this is turning out to be a GREAT thread. thankīs DOn.

[Don]

Yeah good description for modern though Cephalic and Cryptopsy are a little underground....not too many will know them. I think the actual Nevermore is a good example for modern sound.

I think Over Kill and Machine Head are good examples for modern guitat sound too. Modern but conservative too, not too modern, power- and dynamic-ful.

Maybe we should talk further on about Pickups now... Painkiller sounds interesting, but I wont wait so long, at a point you gotta make a decision and our talk convinced me more what belongs warpigs.... later on there might be miracle mans for my les Paul and I got place for a replacement down my flying V FF 82 (a rather nice piece)...

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Yeah, i cold buy a set of warpigs for my ibanez, tuned in C. and a set of either miracle man, or nailbombs for my charvel, tuned in D. But i want to wait for the Painkiller, cause i think it will be better for me to use in my charvel.
besides of that, iīll save money to get a calibrated set, but not a set of warpigs, but a set of Warpig-Cold Sweat, or warpig-Nailbomb.

[HTH AMPS]

you could even have two slightly different Warpigs - one with the stock A5 magnet and another with a tighter bass & slightly more scooped midrange using a C5 magnet.

Mwuhahahahahahaaaa!!!!   :twisted:

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tim recomended me a ceramic warpig

[Don]

Oh God another thing ceramic warpig what's that now 23 kOhm and ceramic magnet? I don't know... My JB hasn't got the right amount of power, but since I began to try out alnico V I get convinced more and more by it... It not only difference in bass-tightness and mid-richness, the alnico V seems to me more melodic, more musical. if you compare single notes and do a little of vibrato with your finger, the tone is rounder... ceramic seems to me more and more harsh in a negative way though I want hard distortionsounds... the general rule hard metal=ceramic more and more dissolves for me.... maybe good for just rythm ok, but for leads and rythm alnico V seems better to me

And by the way... a hot ceramic you can get at every corner, better ore worse ones....

But a real hot Metal Pickup that uses Alnico V you can search for long time until you find BKP, I don't know anybody else.... and i think that way you get a good chance to sound unique.... that's what the warpig was constructed for so forget all that ceramic or buy a miracle man that's my opinion (.......at the moment...hahahaha!)

[dave_mc]

^ i think the ceramic warpig is toned down a little, to 20k, so it doesn't have an insane output...

[Don]

Yeah I think so too.... 20k ceramic is still a lot. By the way can someone tell me whether the magnetic fiel of the regular warpig is quite strong? for example when you lay a skrewdriver on and pull it away? I like my pickups close to the string... you can get problems with something like duncan invader at neck.... But I don't think so with the warpig, am I right?

[Don]

Hmm... have played some hours tonight and again compared the JB with the 500T to get out more about ceramic vs. alnico V...

Must say I'd like the JB a lot if it had enough power for my sound, it's like I said above... but then when I played the beginning of Slayer-angel of death, I realized the lack of tightness when fast riffing on the sixth string.... I hadn't enough time to try out whether different ampsettings would solve this problem... maybe tomorrow or the next days...

pooh this morning I was convinced that i'll buy a regular warpig.... Now again Warpig alnico, Warpig ceramic and Miracle man are spooking in my mind. Decision will take some time, but I'm not the first one I think...

Have a nice weekend guys!