Author Topic: Warpigs + Basswood = WOW! (Read 12978 times)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:38:40 PM »

Davey glad to hear you have your Warpig in your guitar at last! Having fun with it? :twisted:

Dakine · « **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:42:35 PM »

Davey, must not be reading your posts right as am confoosed as heck.
Seem to be going round in circles.
I was initially stating that IMO many woods (if not indeed all) can/are fine (if of good standard) and not just 'so and so wood is king and all else is poop' deal (as stated by someone before).
Having confusing day today here , phew. Roll on tomorrow.

As an aside, have played an aluminium (aluminum for my US friends) guitar and was cool (not my taste/tone but very good anyways) and used to have a Status (carbon) bass which was fantastic.

Many materials, wood of course as a rule, are great for instruments. How they are put together and then set-up, now thats another story.

Dakine · « **Reply #17 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:44:52 PM »

Davey, how 'thick', (so difficult in words and online) is the Pig in the Chavel? I ask as not gotten to play my SG with pig, just thick bodied (compared to Charvel) Custom Pig in Explorer.

gingataff · « **Reply #18 on:** September 11, 2006, 03:58:36 AM »

Why have wood when you can have aircraft aluminium struts? 8)

http://rksguitars.com/new/hollow/poplime.php

Hell Hound · « **Reply #19 on:** September 12, 2006, 01:21:44 PM »

On the basswood subject, I personnaly think this wood is cr@p for guitars. It's no tone wood, too sterile for that. People using basswood guitars do it for a reason, they rely mostly on pickups for tone and basswood is good for that.
My next guitar will be a baritone 7 strings made of basswood. Why? because it'll be tuned ultra low (F/F# territory) and I need something neutral. If I use something like mahogany the bass response would be insane for any kind of distortion and I'm not an EQ freak.
So yes basswood is cr@p as a tone wood, but if I you need neutrality for a "mostly pickups" driven sound it's the way to go.

Kilby · « **Reply #20 on:** September 12, 2006, 03:00:09 PM »

As both Dakine and Davy have pointed out (each in their own way) not every piece of basswood is created equal.

From some les pauls people could take the attitude that mahogany is cr@p (others have said that poplar is complete cr@p) which isn't quite the case (even if I do prefer ash) ;)

Rob...

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #21 on:** September 12, 2006, 09:06:12 PM »

Quote from: Hell Hound

On the basswood subject, I personnaly think this wood is cr@p for guitars. It's no tone wood, too sterile for that. People using basswood guitars do it for a reason, they rely mostly on pickups for tone and basswood is good for that.
My next guitar will be a baritone 7 strings made of basswood. Why? because it'll be tuned ultra low (F/F# territory) and I need something neutral. If I use something like mahogany the bass response would be insane for any kind of distortion and I'm not an EQ freak.
So yes basswood is cr@p as a tone wood, but if I you need neutrality for a "mostly pickups" driven sound it's the way to go.

Interesting stuff, thanks for that! 8)

I was always thinking that Mahogany with a Warpig for internal organ mashing riffs was the way to go! I've got an ultra low speaker dampening switch on my amp and thought it would be a laugh to give it some with that wood/Pup combo!

Siadern · « **Reply #22 on:** September 12, 2006, 11:13:05 PM »

Quote from: Hell Hound

... it'll be tuned ultra low (F/F# territory) ...

Just curious, how did your bass player react when you told him this

Hell Hound · « **Reply #23 on:** September 13, 2006, 02:49:56 PM »

he plays ultralow F/F# with a 35" scale haha (that bass player is me btw :lol: I'm already tuned to F on my baritone 6 strings)

Manachild · « **Reply #24 on:** September 14, 2006, 01:48:08 AM »

does the warpig sound muddy or dark or anything in that rg550?

Davey · « **Reply #25 on:** September 14, 2006, 04:33:33 PM »

Quote from: Manachild

does the warpig sound muddy or dark or anything in that rg550?

i'd say it would sound similar to mine, and no. unless you got a real cr@p amp, that would mud things up

Siadern · « **Reply #26 on:** September 14, 2006, 05:23:15 PM »

No, not muddy at all, not even the neck pickup.

As for dark, depends what you mean. You can get a great Black Sabbath sound (hence the name), and I'd call that pretty dark :twisted: I certainly wouldn't call them bright sounding.

They'll do smooth 'For the Love of God' type stuff, down and dirty thrash metal, clean up nicely if you want them to, and can even be made to do some raunchy classic rock (though if that's your bag there are better options).

Basically all the power you could ever want plus a bit of extra flexability for your calmer moments :)

Davey · « **Reply #27 on:** September 14, 2006, 08:45:57 PM »

oh, it's definately not bright-bright...

it's got a very smooth, yet pissed off sound to it. i for one wouldnt call it dark though.. but heck, i'm not very good at 'splainin things.. i'd rather play em

Manachild · « **Reply #28 on:** September 14, 2006, 11:37:28 PM »

Oh ok i was just asking cuase i currently have a ibanez rg570 with 12-56 guage nickel wound strings tuned to D and i currently have adimarzio tonezone in it and it flabbs out on teh low e string and sounds reallly gross no matter how i seem to fool around with amp settings but i like mean sounding pickups still just wondered how it could sound in my guitar i guess hence the question originally hehe.

Originally i had a seymourduncan dimebucker, but it didnt have enough mid's for my tastes, the duncan custom is what i had next, it was a little better but was too dark, the tonezone was alot better but has problems with low string flab.