Warpig for Death Metal riffing...Alnico not clear enough?

[Henk]

Saw them Saturday at the Cheese and Grain, Frome. They played a seriously good show, the supports were shitee though... :roll:

Guy called Niels Van Der Steenhoven on guitar nowadays; I think he's a sessioner by trade judging by the way he played much closer to the Akkerman lines than Akkerman ever did live.

They've got Pierre Van Der Linden back too; he was drumming like a &$%#er possessed that night, top stuff!

Thijis is still mad and we wouldn't have him any other way.

Seen Akkerman there too doing solo acoustic stuff. His support was better (than Focus').

Good venue but whatever you do go to the toilet before you go in!

Ohhh man i gotts to see pierre, i once had a drummer who had that kicks down like him, most drummers nowadays dont even know what uptempo means let alone being able to do that in a thirds meter!

Jan has a really weird way of combining classical education with oldschool rock, well actually he had to find his own way in that because i was all pretty new back then. It always seems to me that present rock kindoff lacks that enthousiasm and inventiveness.

Anyway, maybe we are straying off topic a tiny bit?

[Henk]

The flabbing out on very low, very fast notes might not be the pickups or the amp, at all. It could be the speakers. I just changed my 5150 cab from sheffield 1200s to Celestion G12K-100s and EVM 12L black labels in an X pattern. At bedroom volumes, it's a LOT more articulate in the bass end. I'll crank it for the first time tonight, so I'll let people know what it's like at volume soon!  They still need to break in, of course!

Roo

I though that too at first, but anyone would kindoff figure that out sont you think? Its kind of selfevident if your cab is walking around :lol:

[jllozano]

Speakers where considered but this happens in all possible configurations.....the atomic amp has 2  200 watt eminence speakers that suposedly are "colorless" ....at my room i use a 1x12 cab with an eminence 150 watt modeling speaker,mosvalve power amp and GNX 3000..that speaker has a very wide range too...about 40 hrz to 20 if i remember correctly...and ..it also happens when connecting to a PA type setup....so probably not a speaker thing.....anyways well see when i get the ceramic pig...by the way please let me know how the celestion combination works with the EV...I might want to try it in an ear candy cab sometime in the future...

[jllozano]

so i received the ceramic pig about a month ago.....the alnico pig i had in the bridge originally i put in the neck ...I tought this would not work, but aparently it does, after screwing with PU height i got the volumes matched and I like what i am hearing. The ceramic is certainly tighter and fixed my problem immediately, and i also like the sound of both warpigs when combined...the middle position has the best of both magnet types i guess......Tone wise i beleive the alnico pig sounded better in the bridge but the tightness for staccato palm mutes was not there...anyways this seems solved now, even if some of the sweet alnico sound was compromised.