Weird.

[Vilches3]

Hey everyone-  Wondering your thoughts on a little situation.

I just recently set up my SG with a Riff Raff and a Mississipi Queen in the neck. It sounds just.....Glorious- Surprisingly heavy sounding enough to even jam out to bands like Slayer........Now about 6 or 7 years ago, I stuck a Warpig in the bridge positon of an Ibanez S (Mahogany body and maple/rose neck).....I also built stuck a Coldsweat in the bridge of my Alder strat with a maple/pau ferro neck.........Heres where things get weird.

The Warpig sounds heavy as advertised, and the Coldsweat Cuts for metal and does the metal thing, also has hair on it in a 90's metal type of way...........But the SG with the Riff Raff sounds heavier than either...It does the vintage thing, but under gain it just sounds more devastating than the other pickups, it has less saturation but its just louder and kicks more ass.....

Does it have anything to do with the fact that the SG has 13 gauge strings on it and the other two have 11's and tremolo bridges?....Is it because the SG has a set neck and dominantly uses one type of wood?.......again the other guitars sound sick, but when I brought my repaired SG home, it just blew the others away......Is the riff raff not wound as much causing it to have a stonger signal?.........the only electronics differences I can think of is the Capacitors- the SG has the oiled/paper battery looking one.......Just wanna know so next time I build a guitar I know what to do.....I think all the guitars have 500k pots....should I get hotter ones for the shredder guitars?

Just to be clear, the other guitars sound nice-the SG just has something extra they don't have

thanks
-Rob

[Dave Sloven]

13s?  What's the SG tuned to?  C? 

I have an SG with a Warpig set tuned to C with an 11-56 set.  I will admit the strings are a little on the slack side, but I wanted the strings to have more give for wide vibrato (I play doom metal with it).

I have found the Warpig set to sound very heavy in the SG.  The SG is quite a bright guitar with strong mids.

I am surprised about the 'hair' comment on the Cold Sweat. I have noticed a 'crispy' high end on the CS in my SG Standard, but not hairy like the A-Bomb was in the same guitar.  The guitar's wood combination does sound quite bright for a CS though.

[ericsabbath]

I remember when I first installed the riff raff in a heavily beaten up 96 prs mccarty that even had the neck plucked out of the body twice
compared to the miracle man in my friends cort katana, the riff raff in the prs sounded a lot heavier and louder
of course it was mostly because of the guitar, but still impressive and unexpected
later he bought another mccarty himself and moved the miracle man from the cort to the mccarty
the miracle man sounded hotter on the mccarty, but from memory, I recall the other beaten mccarty still sounding a little punchier and clearer

sgs are pretty loud guitars acoustically, so no big surprise when comparing with strat type guitars

[Vilches3]

13s?  What's the SG tuned to?  C? 

I have an SG with a Warpig set tuned to C with an 11-56 set.  I will admit the strings are a little on the slack side, but I wanted the strings to have more give for wide vibrato (I play doom metal with it).

I have found the Warpig set to sound very heavy in the SG.  The SG is quite a bright guitar with strong mids.

I am surprised about the 'hair' comment on the Cold Sweat. I have noticed a 'crispy' high end on the CS in my SG Standard, but not hairy like the A-Bomb was in the same guitar.  The guitar's wood combination does sound quite bright for a CS though.

I have it in standard Lol.  Im guessing that contributes a bit to the thicker tone. As for the Cond sweat, I have em tuned to D in an alder bodied strat with a maple top/ maple neck- Its crystal clear but the lower notes have a grindy quality to em.

I remember when I first installed the riff raff in a heavily beaten up 96 prs mccarty that even had the neck plucked out of the body twice
compared to the miracle man in my friends cort katana, the riff raff in the prs sounded a lot heavier and louder
of course it was mostly because of the guitar, but still impressive and unexpected
later he bought another mccarty himself and moved the miracle man from the cort to the mccarty
the miracle man sounded hotter on the mccarty, but from memory, I recall the other beaten mccarty still sounding a little punchier and clearer

sgs are pretty loud guitars acoustically, so no big surprise when comparing with strat type guitars

Thanks, I suppose its got something to do with the individual guitars- though I still may just upgrade the pots and such. I gotta say Im surprised how aggressive the riff raffs can get, really thick yet cutting sound