BKP bridge pickup comparison video

[Serratus]

Recorded a bridge pickup comparison video :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecekLV4yps

[m t soule]

That was cool thanks.
Its interesting that i found them kinda similar aside from all the differences.
Maybe the player the eq or the track.
I like it a lot!
Reminds of how cool the Ry is

[Dave Sloven]

The most distinctive one was the Ibanez pickup.  Smoother, very compressed, lacks character.

I think I liked the Emerald the best.  I was also pleasantly surprised by the Painkiller.

[Yellowjacket]

Holy Stockholm!!

I've played a guitar equipped with a Painkiller.  It was awesome!

[Telerocker]

Cool vid, thx!

It shows very nice the difference between related pickups like the Diver and the Rebel Yell.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Emerald.
The Stockholm sounds amazing, but I do like P90's anyway.

[Serratus]

Its interesting that i found them kinda similar aside from all the differences.

Hehehehe, I love this sentence!!!  But I know exactly what you mean!!

Thanks guys, I am happy with this vid, and I plan to do revised versions with some other pickups as I get them 

[Telerocker]

You can hear the different voicings in the vid, but I with (a lot of) gain some BKP's sound close. 

[Yellowjacket]

You can hear the different voicings in the vid, but I with (a lot of) gain some BKP's sound close. 

Generally, the more saturated a tone gets, the more the voice of the amplifier starts to predominate.  I've often found very high gain demos frustrating for this reason. 

But, I also find that recordings are far more 2 dimensional than hearing something live.  Being in front of an amp and actually playing through different pickups gives a far more noticeable impression.

I found it very interesting how much low end the Rebel Yell had in the demo.  In my experience, that pickup really lacks bottom even compared to an A-Bomb. 

[Telerocker]

You can hear the different voicings in the vid, but I with (a lot of) gain some BKP's sound close. 

Generally, the more saturated a tone gets, the more the voice of the amplifier starts to predominate.  I've often found very high gain demos frustrating for this reason. 

But, I also find that recordings are far more 2 dimensional than hearing something live.  Being in front of an amp and actually playing through different pickups gives a far more noticeable impression.

I found it very interesting how much low end the Rebel Yell had in the demo.  In my experience, that pickup really lacks bottom even compared to an A-Bomb.

A-Bomb has quite some bass.

But you're right, it's hard to judge any pickup in online-demo's.

[ericsabbath]

that video reminds me of what I love about the holy diver
the others sounded great too, except for the stock ibanez pup (as expected)
loving the stockholm

[Yellowjacket]

But you're right, it's hard to judge any pickup in online-demo's.

I agree.  With online demos the amp tone goes into a mic, compressor, DAW where it is mixed and combined with other instruments.  Then the the mix is compressed, and uploaded.  When people play it, it goes through their soundcard or sound device through a preamp and an amplifier, and through speakers.  So we're hearing so many tones layered on top of the source tone. 

that video reminds me of what I love about the holy diver
the others sounded great too, except for the stock ibanez pup (as expected)
loving the stockholm

Stockholm sounds amazing in that demo.   

[Serratus]

You can hear the different voicings in the vid, but I with (a lot of) gain some BKP's sound close. 

Generally, the more saturated a tone gets, the more the voice of the amplifier starts to predominate.  I've often found very high gain demos frustrating for this reason. 

But, I also find that recordings are far more 2 dimensional than hearing something live.  Being in front of an amp and actually playing through different pickups gives a far more noticeable impression.

I found it very interesting how much low end the Rebel Yell had in the demo.  In my experience, that pickup really lacks bottom even compared to an A-Bomb.

I also found that when I was recording them they 'felt' more different to each other than they sounded when I listened to them back. So although they still have their own character in the recordings, the character meant more to me when I was playing. Shows that as a player you notice more differences in tone and feel than an audience would ever hear!! 

I'm also planning to do another demo video with more of a mid-gain (AC/DCish maybe) tone which will be interesting 

[m t soule]

Yeah man. Theres no better than in the flesh testing.
So much is lost. I took me a year to learn to hear the subtitles in vid/demo

[Serratus]

Anyone got any recommendations of which BKP's would be good to add to the test?

I have a cobra-equipped guitar which will be finished soon, and I have a Jugg, Abraxas, and Black dog ready to put into guitars next. Any preference?

[Telerocker]

Mule, Black Dog, Abraxas, Crawler would be a nice quartet to compare.

I think a lot of forummembers like to hear also the Cobra next to the Jugg and the Blackhawk.