Author Topic: Alnico Warpig vs Ceramic Warpig (Read 22380 times)

Sekhmet · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2007, 05:51:05 PM »

If i can get my Alnico Warpig Wired up into a guitar again, I'l be able to do a comparison of the two as i've ordered some Ceramic Piggys.

Mikey

BloodMountain · « **Reply #16 on:** February 13, 2007, 05:59:51 PM »

thanks!!!!!

MDV · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2007, 06:32:08 PM »

Quote from: TonyGibson

My sole reason for picking ceramic is that this guitar will eventually (as in this week) be tuned to C Standard and Drop B. I would *think* that a ceramic pickup would be better for that top of tuning than Alnico due to the clarity and bite of the ceramic magnet. That's all theory of course and I'm sure the Alnico works for alternate (lower) tunings as well.

Also, I'm generally playing this guitar through a Mesa/Boogie which I consider to be a very dark amp as it is. Combine the toppy nature of the CWP with the dark nature of Mesa amps and you have a pretty well rounded (yet devestating) metal sound.

In terms of clarity ceramic will give the edge, all things being equal, but you cant take the guitar out of the picture, and the WP in a clear-wooded guitar (a strat, say) would stay clear through to VERY low tunings.

Clarity is more a property of pairing woods with pickups, than just pickups. I mean, I just re-fitted a mates jackson rhoads V with a gibbo 498T bridge: I hated these pickups because in gibbos they often sound woolly, especially in SGs and didnt expect good results. In his maple/basswood V it was fantastic...go figure!

Both my A5 WP and CWP are on guitars in various states of detuning (drop B is a favourite of mine) and I have no clarity complaints at all: one may be better than the other, but both easily pass muster. (FYI so you can see the woods the A5 WP is in a Jackson DX1 (rock maple/basswood) and the CWP is in this http://www.legraguitars.co.uk/mdv602.htm )[/url]

TonyGibson · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2007, 07:10:26 PM »

Quote from: MDV

In terms of clarity ceramic will give the edge, all things being equal, but you cant take the guitar out of the picture

Very true...mine is in an Ibanez S Classic with 25.1 scale bolt-on maple neck so it's bound to be bright as hell (and it is :D)

You bring up a good point...we sometimes get lost in the fact that the pickups make a big difference in sound, but the same pickup can sound dramatically different in different guitars. I actually find this true of EMG's as well...I used to LOVE the EMG 60 in the neck of my Ibanez, but it sounded very different (read: worse) in the neck of my Les Paul. If that's true of active pickups, it's more true of passive pickups,

BloodMountain · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2007, 08:50:31 PM »

my new pickup is going in an all Mahogany Dean Razorback..... what would each sound like in that?

BM

MDV · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2007, 01:06:18 AM »

Both will sound fantastic. Its just a question of what feel you want to go for: heavy and organic, middy and smooth highs, or heavy and tight and surgical with smooth mids.

BloodMountain · « **Reply #21 on:** February 14, 2007, 06:25:11 PM »

i'm looking for smooth, not boosted or piercing, highs, middy, and HUGE ASS BASS! oh yeah, and you can't forget the heavy and the metal 8)
organic sound more like me than surgical......

BM

TonyGibson · « **Reply #22 on:** February 14, 2007, 06:30:55 PM »

Quote from: BLOODMOUNTAIN

i'm looking for smooth, not boosted or piercing, highs, middy, and HUGE ASS BASS! oh yeah, and you can't forget the heavy and the metal 8)
organic sound more like me than surgical......

BM

Definitely grab the Alnico Warpig. And then in the future get a ceramic for another guitar. 8)

BloodMountain · « **Reply #23 on:** February 14, 2007, 06:34:50 PM »

Quote from: TonyGibson

Quote from: BLOODMOUNTAIN
i'm looking for smooth, not boosted or piercing, highs, middy, and HUGE ASS BASS! oh yeah, and you can't forget the heavy and the metal 8)
organic sound more like me than surgical......

BM

Definitely grab the Alnico Warpig. And then in the future get a ceramic for another guitar. 8)

Ah, the perfect plan 8)

Sailor Charon · « **Reply #24 on:** February 14, 2007, 07:54:05 PM »

Quote from: BLOODMOUNTAIN

i'm looking for smooth, not boosted or piercing, highs, middy, and HUGE ASS BASS! oh yeah, and you can't forget the heavy and the metal 8)
organic sound more like me than surgical......

BM

Ah, now me, I am looking for piercing/biting/screaming highs [:)], and while I like bass, I wouldn't want to sacrifice the highs to get it. Oh, and I like a solid midrange too...

BloodMountain · « **Reply #25 on:** February 14, 2007, 08:32:00 PM »

yeah, i agree with the mids. nice n solid n clear. great for my kind of Metal sound! not so great for ultra scooped thrash though.
I am willing to sacrifice highs for bass........ i love bass! on that note, today, i got my practice amp, rolled the highs from 7.5 to 4, then upped the volume and BOOM!!!! my room was SHAKING!!!!! oh how i love bass.....

BM

MDV · « **Reply #26 on:** February 14, 2007, 11:14:42 PM »

Go alnico!

BloodMountain · « **Reply #27 on:** February 15, 2007, 05:23:40 PM »

Quote from: MDV

Go alnico!

my thoughts exactly. plus, i've always liked the sound of the Nailbomb too, so Alnico will give me a slight hint of that tone..... crossed with bone crushing gain and bass :twisted:

BloodMountain · « **Reply #28 on:** February 16, 2007, 09:41:52 PM »

i'm loving Drac's clips of the Alnico Warpig, sounds like the exact tone i want!!!!!!, bassy, organic, heavy........ it's awesome!

BM

ericsabbath · « **Reply #29 on:** February 17, 2007, 12:37:40 AM »

i want the bottom end of alnico warpig, tighness of miracle man and the mids and clarity of holy diver :?

is it possible in just one pickup?
i want the perfect combination of absolute tone and power :twisted:

Author Topic: Alnico Warpig vs Ceramic Warpig (Read 22380 times)

Sailor Charon