Evenin'!
Scored an "as new" used Holydiver last week for my Suhr Modern! The guitar is all mahogany with a quilted maple top, but very light! Haven't put it on the bathroom scale yet, but I will guess no more than 3,2kg. Suhr makes their guitars so freakin' bright somehow! I sold my alder Modern for this and was expecting Les Paul-like tones... It does lack the "scratchy" tendencies of alder so I thought that I could give it a chance. I have always wanted to try the Diver, so I replaced the Suhr DSH+! The guitar is still no Les Paul, and the sound is still bright but noticeably smoother in the top end, as well as more mids and bass. I would not say that the guitar was lacking in mids in terms of
amount of mids, but the Diver adds a lot of body! The bass response is bigger, lower and tighter as well! I really love a tight bottom (end, hoho), and with the right Alnico V pickup, Holydiver or Rebel Yell for instance, I do not see the need for ceramic pickups anymore. I won't write much about the clean tones because I never use the bridge pickup for cleans. When I split it, it twangs a bit less than the DSH+ making it less useable, but I can certainly live with that for epic humbucking tone! Really versatile pickup also, sounds great for everything I play at least (blues to pretty $%&#ing heavy metal).
I recorded a short clip if you would like to hear it in action. Honestly I think the tone is one of the best I have ever recorded! Gear used is a Kemper with a Friedman Smallbox 50 profile. There was a minor $%&#up or two in there somewhere, but it is all about the tone!
https://soundcloud.com/alfi27/holydiver-demo/s-HO0O2
