Author Topic: Neck clean sound shootout (HD, VHII, CS, NB, MM, PK) (Read 17779 times)

Antag · « **on:** March 14, 2008, 04:54:51 PM »

Yet again my (lack of) recording skill fails to capture the huge differences in sounds between BKP models :roll: but having gone to the effort, I'm going to post anyway...

There have been a few posts asking about neck models & it occurred to me that I own 6 of them. So I recorded these at the weekend, one after the other without changing any settings.

It's a fairly simple chord progression that I played twice, switching on some chorus for the second one each time. Yes, there are mistakes - for some reason I got a major attack of butter fingers while trying to record with the Nailbomb & lost patience after take 4 :roll: :) (+ the click track was starting to bore into my head like a chinese water torture :lol:)

Guitars:
Jackson RR1T (Holy Diver)
PRS Singlecut (VHII)
Jackson KV2 (Cold Sweat)
Gibson Les Paul (Nailbomb)
Gibson Les Paul (Miracle Man)
Charvel model 5 (Painkiller)

Amp: Engl Savage 120 (channel 1 of course), Mesa Recto 2x12" cab (vintage 30s)
FX: MXR M134 Chorus (second time only)
Mic/Recording: Shure SM57, Presonus Bluetube DP, Fostex MR16HD

Enjoy :)

Antag · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2008, 04:56:04 PM »

& here are the other 3

Lazy_McDoesnothing · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2008, 06:26:25 PM »

Nice dude. Out of the clips I preferred the VH, NB, and HD the most in that order. Do them under gain now! 8)

ilÿti · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2008, 06:32:38 PM »

Quite surprisingly I prefered the HD out of the bunch. There just seemed to be more harmonics. Thanks for the clips, it's quite helpful. Now do some leads! :P

Antag · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2008, 07:02:05 PM »

Yep, I've promised a few people on PMs that I'll do some neck leads. If I get a chance in the next week or so I'll fire up the recorder & have a go.

FWIW Holy Diver is by far my favourite for clean sounds. As I said in my post, my recordings have "evened out" the differences (especially in power), but I think that I've caught the brightness & clarity of the HD fairly well.

badgermark · « **Reply #5 on:** March 14, 2008, 08:04:55 PM »

How about some clean, strummed chords? I like strumming :D

hunter · « **Reply #6 on:** March 14, 2008, 08:59:07 PM »

Very nice tones there. That Chorus sounds real gorgeous!

Antag · « **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2008, 02:37:21 PM »

Quote from: badgermark

How about some clean, strummed chords? I like strumming :D

Quote from: ilyti

Now do some leads! :P

Quote from: Lazy_McDoesnothing

Do them under gain now! 8)

Try this for starters :)

Scott674 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2008, 04:47:39 AM »

Excellent. I vote #1 VH, #2 MM

gwEm · « **Reply #9 on:** March 19, 2008, 03:16:27 PM »

very very useful!!

the painkiller + chorus was pure Judas Priest

Standing by my window
Breathing summer breeze
Saw a figure floating... beneath the willow trees
Asked us if we were happy?
We said we didn't know
Took us by the hands and up we go

Gizmo · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2008, 09:23:13 PM »

VH is my fav by far. very warm and more depth and mids. great sounding neck pup.

I like the HD too its very very clear, but much thinner almost bridge like with lots more treble.

opprobrium_9 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 20, 2008, 01:30:27 AM »

holy diver winns!!

splawnster · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2008, 05:01:53 AM »

I like the VH best then HD. thanks for the clips, This should help out on choosing a pickup.