Different kinds of "chugga chugga"

[Dave Sloven]

The guitar sound on the Jungle Rot reminds of Paganizer.  I don't mind it.

The other one didn't appeal to me at all.  I must be a retarded caveman!  On the other hand the Jungle Rot was not as interesting to me as old school stuff like Autopsy, even though it was clearly recorded on better gear.

[EffigyForgotten]

Eh Autopsy before Macabre is some of the most overrated DM out there, horrible production, horrible vocals, and boring guitar work. Just my opinion though. Jungle Rot is far better than Autopsy in every way, I don't see the comparison though so bringing that up is pointless.

[Dave Sloven]

Depends on what you like I guess.

I'm equal parts punk and metalhead so I don't mind some simple and/or noisy stuff.  Autopsy are from back in the time when that style was still fresh and don't seem so worried about all of that.  Repulsion was much the same.  Technically kind of awful but like no-one before them.  I also remember the '80s very well and I guess that kind of stuff is where I feel at home.

[EffigyForgotten]

Repulsion were awesome and with Carcass, Terrorizer, Napalm Death, etc were all doing something never heard before. Autopsy were just slower death metal, nothing revolutionary, Obituary were doing the same thing but 100% better before them.

I listen to practically every style whether it is rock, metal, jazz, punk or at least guitar related these days.

People claim to be open minded on the internet all the time, most have no idea what the $%&# they're talking about.

[GuitarIv]

I think I finally found my sound sample. Listen to the riff that starts at 0:52 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1zdAL_ikQ

That fat and huge "chugga chugga" sound, being full but still tight is what I'm looking for :)

[ericsabbath]

Josh was using a holy diver in his main les paul custom lite last year

but that album was probably mostly a LTD Michael Wilton superstrat with the stock duncan JB as far as I remember

he had painkillers in the past, but I guess he didn't enjoy them much

[GuitarIv]

I know he was using Holydivers in the Les Paul All Axcess Custom he played, however if you watch the studio videos it's indeed the LTD the albums recorded with. I thought he was using EMGs but seems like the JB is the more obvious answer as in the studio video the LTD isn't equipped with them. I also read his post about having the PK 15 minutes in a guitar, not liking it and selling it. Weird, I quite like mine. Funny thing is I know Monolith was done using Holydivers and a Marshall JCM 800, however I'm again having a Hate/Love affair going on with my HD. Before I redid the wiring on my Strat the sound was horrible, but even now that I fixed it the HD seems to be too thin to my ears and that's not what people say about it usually. Granted, the guitar is veeeery bright but the sound just lacks soo much bottom end I don't have any "chugg" at all. It worked quite fine in my Jackson (currently has the Painkiller in the bridge) and that guitar is made out of Mahogany and has such a depth and fullness, the Painkiller sounds perfectly balanced in it, it's quite a darker instrument. I could have put a Rebel Yell into the Jackson and a Warpig into the Strat and the Instruments would still be balanced EQ wise. Don't know what to do. I'll try to put the HD into my mates Jackson and see how it behaves. I doubt it's the pickups fault. Might also test another amp to see what effect I get...

[Studiostriver]

I guess then the biggest factor how pickups will sound is in the fact in the wood selection.My Hellraiser 7-FR is made of mahogany body/top quilted maple with maple neck with rosewood fretboard.So I think tone if overall balanced then dark or middy,or whatever you like to call it.
And beside pickups as we all know,how you adjust your amp,preamp,pedals will make sound drastically different.

I only heard just good about Bare Knuckles,do not know how to describe it exactly but to me all they got a more classic sound mix with modern which is good by the way.So for what I have heard know it will be a 2 months of actively listening clips and comment of folks they can not chugga that much at all.But I came from old-school music(my father was a hard rock drummer for almost all his life),I listened a lot hard rock 70thies,later 80thies heavy metal and neoclassical metal,in 90thies especially Bruce Dickinson more modern heavy sound.Then in 00th I start listening power/progressive music...
Sorry for talking about myself too much..I just wanna say that if you like me and you want cover different varieties of sounds I never heard better pickups than Bare Knuckles to be honest...They can not sound too much modern,but they are very very versatile...So me personally I would sacrifice a little tightness in order for versatility.
I just miss very much all those ("older")sounds,I just can`t stand to sound always modern (read the same)...I will buy it for sure but for know not sure which. :)
Too many good pickups to choose. 8)

If you want exclusively mind blasting chugga tones,use active pickups for sure.No one passive can`t match with them in that sound.

Cheers bro! \m/