Had to subscribe after this one dude! This is probably the best side by side pickup comparison vid I've seen. I appreciate how thorough you are in regard to different types of tones/applications, and I loved hearing each pup in the mix vs. unprocessed
Thank you so much Will, that's awesome of you - I truly appreciate it mate! Very glad you got something out of it - Just trying to put my OCD to good use in these videos :D.
In all my years of playing, I have yet to play another pickup with as good a lead tone as the Holy Diver. All those mids just absolutely sing, I’m pretty sure that was the whole intent behind that pickup. For straight up riffing I’d probably go with the Warpig, it’s tighter and nastier, fatter in the lows. But the Warpig leads just don’t soar like the Holy Diver. They’re both awesome pickups, but they definitely excel at different things.
My thoughts exactly :)! The Holy Diver is amazing for leads and hard rock in general, as for tight metal & stoner the Warpig takes the cake. I've recently managed to get a BKP Silo, it somehow feels like the bastard son of these 2 pups, also amazing for leads just like the Holy Diver and has the cool low mids and compression of the Warpig.
Amasing and informative comparison, cool riffs and solos, flawless playing, supercool Katatonia shirt...Thank you, Gabriel. I can't wait to see your channel grow.
Very well done Gabriel. The hard work shows here. I think I'd go with the Holy Diver here, not quite as scooped. But both sound great and I appreciate the effort you took to make this. Subbed.
Hi mate - thank you so much for the kind words and for the sub, very glad you enjoyed the video! Absolutely, both are excellent pickups and as you mentioned if you want the mids to be a bit more present, the Holydiver is a great choice 🤘
I was just chatting with the BKP team about which pickup would be closes to the Tom Anderson H3/H1 pickups that Bill Howerdell (APerfectCircle) uses and they recommended the Holydivers. This is a great demo - thank you!
Thank you mate - really appreciate it! Can imagine the holydivers being a good choice for APC type tones, the BKP team tends to be spot on with their recommendations, hopefully you’ll like them! Cheers for checking the video out 🍻
Nice playing!!! 🤘Both are awesome pickups. Again, I’m more on the OSDM low tuned camp for the Warpig. Doom was a good example too. Thick, scooped, but cutting. The HD is more mid heavy but retains classic character. Definitely awesome for prog, prog metal, traditional heavy metal, and distinctly Jerry Cantrell style tones. Well done dude. Subbed.
Thank you my friend - really appreciate the sub and the kind words! My thoughts exactly, I must say though as much as I like the Holydiver, there's just something really special about the Warpig, it has this natural compression that just makes it addictive to play - I heard the Silo is somewhat similar to the Warpig but tighter, must try that one at some point too. 🤘
Muito bom, espero que o teu canal arranque para a frente, bastante dedicação colocada nestes vídeos, já merecias. Edição 5 estrelas, grandes tons, alta qualidade e definição. Tens que descriminar o teu processo na criação dos efeitos para a guitarra em formato de vídeo e complementar estes vídeos que fazes com isso. Sempre é mais conteúdo e é sempre bom perceber como as outras pessoas pensam e agem e qual o método de trabalho em busca do seu tom perfeito. Percebo que às vezes seja difícil de comunicar e falar para os vídeos mas acho que ganharias muito com isso, mas percebo que nem toda a gente se sinta à vontade com isso. Apesar de não usar Neural DSP gosto sempre de saber o processo mental por detrás dos grandes tons, neste momento estou a usar uma hx stomp, especialmente para gravar directo, e apesar de curtir o som que consegui não deixo de olhar para isto e ficar de boca aberta com o corpo sonoro destes efeitos que crias. Um abraço, já agora a minha namorada e companheira estudou em santa comba dão, na mesma escola que tu, foi assim que conheci o teu trabalho.
Olá Duarte! Muito obrigado, contente por gostares do vídeo - é verdade, perco alguma horas nisto e é sempre bom quando reconhecem o esforço :)! Agradeço o feedback, a ver se consigo pôr em prática a tua sugestão de descrição do processo por detrás dos tons utilizados nos vídeos - é questão de perder a vergonha e arranjar um microfone decente 😄. Estive a ouvir a cover que tens da Spirit Carries On no teu canal do UA-cam, está fantástico, para além de tocares muito mesmo, achei que o som que utilizaste estava espectacular - já agora eu também tenho um hx stomp que uso para ensaiar com a banda, dá um jeitaço! Que fixe, se não te importares claro, quem é a tua namorada? Abração e a ver se pões mais vídeos no teu canal, curti bastante ouvir-te a tocar ;)!
@@gabriel_guitar Epah obrigado, só faço umas cenas, nada profissional. Também tocas muito mesmo, e a qualidade está mesmo no topo. Também já tive bandas, mas já foi há muito tempo, até tenho andado para fazer upload desses projetos aqui para o canal. A minha namorada respondeu em cima. Mas sim, investes aí num Blue Yeti ou um mic do género e estás a bombar. Quando está bom, está bom, e os teus vídeos têm mais qualidade do que as próprias marcas que produzem o material que usas, muito profissional. Continua assim, estás lá. Abraço.
Olá Célia, lembro-me bem :)!! Espero que esteja tudo bem contigo e que continues a fazer das tuas ilustrações brutais. Já agora muito obrigado pela recomendação ao Duarte, tens um namorado que toca muito ;)! Abraço
Obrigado Duarte, conta muito, a ver se trabalho nisso - beber um shot ou dois antes de falar para a câmara :D! Se por ventura passarem por Londres digam alguma cena, pode ser que um gajo ainda se encontre e faça um jam! Abraço 🍻
These demos continue to be awesome!! Again, I’m surprised how similar these sound. Warpig is slightly more raw and bigger, Holydiver sounds more focused, almost like it’s already eq’d.
Thank you so much, very cool of you, appreciate you checking my videos out mate. Indeed, the Holydiver is quite a bit more focused, and the mids just cut through the mix nicely :)! Love them both, hard to go wrong with BKP🍻
this is one of the greates demos on youtube, amazing job! Also I'm sadder and sadder that I clearly had to dish out 300 bucks for the Holy diver set. It sounds too good...
Thank you so much mate, that's very cool of you to write, really appreciate it! Ha, it's worth every penny my friend, I'm sure you'll enjoy the pickups 🍻
Thank you so much Henrik, appreciate it my friend :)! It's all plugins - the Brainworx Suhr PT100 for the rock and mildly driven tones and Neural DSP Soldano for the Metal, Solo and Clean Tones.
What a great comparison! They're both sounding really "full" which is great. i'm currently searching for a pair to put them into my Gibson Studio which is chambered. Would you recommend the Warpigs over the Holy Divers due to the slightly higher output for Doom/Stoner stuff? Or maybe another set of Bareknuckles?
Hi mate, really appreciate it and cheers for checking the video out. Absolutely, to me the Warpig is king for stoner and doom stuff, even for bluesier and more atmospheric passages the split coil tones sound great, hard to go wrong with the Warpigs considering what you described.
I am now consulting with BKP helpdesk deciding between Ragnarok/Silo/Poly for my solid body Strandberg, but the support person said a thing about chambered guitars along the way: "For chambered I would go for less bass, more clarity, maybe slightly less power than the Rags.". I think that's referring to the specific (bigger?) resonance of chambered guitars, which with bassy pickups may be too much. Please don't take this seriously I am a noob, just thought I'd share what I heard when saw chambered and warpig in the same sentence.
@@bissekerskij thanks for the input mate, in a way it makes sense and I haven't really considered it, very helpful! Which set did you choose? I've got a new set o polymaths that I'm dying to try out btw
@@gabriel_guitar ah its a pain to choose.. especially as I am targeting to have just a single guitar for a long time and I kinda want those to be as versatile as possible, but it must for sure do heavy stuff with power and clarity, then ambient stuff, then coil split, then no harshness, but not too dark.. dah I'm a mess in explaining things :) still choosing between the Ragnarok, Silo and Polymath.. I'm already on the line with support discussing this, but at current moment it raises more questions than answers plus they brought to my attention that I may mix those, so the amount of combinations is huge and I'm completely lost now :D
Can you tell me how you have your Warpig wired in your solar guitar?? I assume your guitar has the 5-way blade switch. I am in the process of installing Bare Knuckle pickups myself Into a Solar without the help of a guitar tech.
Hi, I got a Seymour Duncan Liberator that I wired to the 5-way blade, in my particular case I was too lazy to connect the tone potentiometer back on. I can send photos of how it’s wired if you drop me a message on fb or Instagram.
Oh awesome, been meaning to try the Lundgren pickups for while, I’m sure they sound excellent. Can imagine the ceramic version of the Warpig being a lot brighter than mine, but didn’t realise it could be that bright, interesting :)
@@ericsabbath nice one, hopefully I'll give the C-pig a go in the near future, it'd be interesting to hear how it sounds compared to the Alnico version. Cheers for checking the video out mate.
Seems like the Warpig is quite bright and the holy diver is fatter. I like the Warpig Better for rythm but the Holy Diver wa ssmoother and fuller for leads. Apart from that they are quite close.
@@gabriel_guitar great shootout btw. I have the divers in my V. Was just curious about the differences to the warpigs because I got close to getting those for another guitar. Thanks
That’s awesome, very glad you got something out of it mate :)! They’re very different pickups that can compliment the right guitar very well, if I had a bright guitar that required some extra mojo, I’d go for the warpig, on the other hand if I had a guitar that sounded too muddy I’d probably go for the Holy Diver. 🤘🏻
Had to subscribe after this one dude! This is probably the best side by side pickup comparison vid I've seen. I appreciate how thorough you are in regard to different types of tones/applications, and I loved hearing each pup in the mix vs. unprocessed
Thank you so much Will, that's awesome of you - I truly appreciate it mate! Very glad you got something out of it - Just trying to put my OCD to good use in these videos :D.
In all my years of playing, I have yet to play another pickup with as good a lead tone as the Holy Diver. All those mids just absolutely sing, I’m pretty sure that was the whole intent behind that pickup.
For straight up riffing I’d probably go with the Warpig, it’s tighter and nastier, fatter in the lows. But the Warpig leads just don’t soar like the Holy Diver.
They’re both awesome pickups, but they definitely excel at different things.
My thoughts exactly :)! The Holy Diver is amazing for leads and hard rock in general, as for tight metal & stoner the Warpig takes the cake. I've recently managed to get a BKP Silo, it somehow feels like the bastard son of these 2 pups, also amazing for leads just like the Holy Diver and has the cool low mids and compression of the Warpig.
Amazing playing as always 🤟
Can't wait to see what's next!
Thank you very much mate, glad you enjoyed it - it means a lot! 🤘
Amasing and informative comparison, cool riffs and solos, flawless playing, supercool Katatonia shirt...Thank you, Gabriel. I can't wait to see your channel grow.
Thank you so much Eitan - that's awesome of you mate, I really appreciate it! Ha, one of my fav t-shirts by an awesome band :)! 🤘
Thanks for sharing!!! Great comparison!!!! Helps a lot!!!
Thank you so much Pedro! Glad you found it helpful mate :)!
Very well done Gabriel. The hard work shows here. I think I'd go with the Holy Diver here, not quite as scooped. But both sound great and I appreciate the effort you took to make this.
Subbed.
Hi mate - thank you so much for the kind words and for the sub, very glad you enjoyed the video! Absolutely, both are excellent pickups and as you mentioned if you want the mids to be a bit more present, the Holydiver is a great choice 🤘
@@gabriel_guitar Right on brada. Be blessed my friend. Glad to have stumbled on to ya.
Great video. I recently got a pair of Holy Divers for my Solar guitar, excellent pickups 🤘
Thank you very much mate, glad you enjoyed it! Awesome choice, the Holy Divers are great pickups indeed 🤘
I was just chatting with the BKP team about which pickup would be closes to the Tom Anderson H3/H1 pickups that Bill Howerdell (APerfectCircle) uses and they recommended the Holydivers. This is a great demo - thank you!
Thank you mate - really appreciate it! Can imagine the holydivers being a good choice for APC type tones, the BKP team tends to be spot on with their recommendations, hopefully you’ll like them! Cheers for checking the video out 🍻
Good work mate!
Thank you brother! 🤘🏻
Nice playing!!! 🤘Both are awesome pickups. Again, I’m more on the OSDM low tuned camp for the Warpig. Doom was a good example too. Thick, scooped, but cutting. The HD is more mid heavy but retains classic character. Definitely awesome for prog, prog metal, traditional heavy metal, and distinctly Jerry Cantrell style tones. Well done dude. Subbed.
Thank you my friend - really appreciate the sub and the kind words! My thoughts exactly, I must say though as much as I like the Holydiver, there's just something really special about the Warpig, it has this natural compression that just makes it addictive to play - I heard the Silo is somewhat similar to the Warpig but tighter, must try that one at some point too. 🤘
Do you think the Holydiver would suit an E standard tuned Old School Black Metal project?
Great job!
Thank you Ronnie, appreciate that! 🍻
Great pickups, but the most noticeable fact is the awesome intonation that comes with an Evertune bridge!
Absolutely, Evertune is awesome, makes recording so much easier!
Amazing!
Thank you 🙏🏻!
Muito bom, espero que o teu canal arranque para a frente, bastante dedicação colocada nestes vídeos, já merecias. Edição 5 estrelas, grandes tons, alta qualidade e definição. Tens que descriminar o teu processo na criação dos efeitos para a guitarra em formato de vídeo e complementar estes vídeos que fazes com isso. Sempre é mais conteúdo e é sempre bom perceber como as outras pessoas pensam e agem e qual o método de trabalho em busca do seu tom perfeito. Percebo que às vezes seja difícil de comunicar e falar para os vídeos mas acho que ganharias muito com isso, mas percebo que nem toda a gente se sinta à vontade com isso. Apesar de não usar Neural DSP gosto sempre de saber o processo mental por detrás dos grandes tons, neste momento estou a usar uma hx stomp, especialmente para gravar directo, e apesar de curtir o som que consegui não deixo de olhar para isto e ficar de boca aberta com o corpo sonoro destes efeitos que crias. Um abraço, já agora a minha namorada e companheira estudou em santa comba dão, na mesma escola que tu, foi assim que conheci o teu trabalho.
Olá Duarte! Muito obrigado, contente por gostares do vídeo - é verdade, perco alguma horas nisto e é sempre bom quando reconhecem o esforço :)! Agradeço o feedback, a ver se consigo pôr em prática a tua sugestão de descrição do processo por detrás dos tons utilizados nos vídeos - é questão de perder a vergonha e arranjar um microfone decente 😄. Estive a ouvir a cover que tens da Spirit Carries On no teu canal do UA-cam, está fantástico, para além de tocares muito mesmo, achei que o som que utilizaste estava espectacular - já agora eu também tenho um hx stomp que uso para ensaiar com a banda, dá um jeitaço! Que fixe, se não te importares claro, quem é a tua namorada? Abração e a ver se pões mais vídeos no teu canal, curti bastante ouvir-te a tocar ;)!
@@gabriel_guitar Hello Gabriel, sou eu a Célia Rolo (Nagozela), andei um ano atrás de ti no curso de artes :) em s.c.dão
@@gabriel_guitar Epah obrigado, só faço umas cenas, nada profissional. Também tocas muito mesmo, e a qualidade está mesmo no topo. Também já tive bandas, mas já foi há muito tempo, até tenho andado para fazer upload desses projetos aqui para o canal. A minha namorada respondeu em cima. Mas sim, investes aí num Blue Yeti ou um mic do género e estás a bombar. Quando está bom, está bom, e os teus vídeos têm mais qualidade do que as próprias marcas que produzem o material que usas, muito profissional. Continua assim, estás lá. Abraço.
Olá Célia, lembro-me bem :)!! Espero que esteja tudo bem contigo e que continues a fazer das tuas ilustrações brutais. Já agora muito obrigado pela recomendação ao Duarte, tens um namorado que toca muito ;)! Abraço
Obrigado Duarte, conta muito, a ver se trabalho nisso - beber um shot ou dois antes de falar para a câmara :D! Se por ventura passarem por Londres digam alguma cena, pode ser que um gajo ainda se encontre e faça um jam! Abraço 🍻
Espetacular!
Obrigado amigo! Abração
These demos continue to be awesome!! Again, I’m surprised how similar these sound. Warpig is slightly more raw and bigger, Holydiver sounds more focused, almost like it’s already eq’d.
Thank you so much, very cool of you, appreciate you checking my videos out mate. Indeed, the Holydiver is quite a bit more focused, and the mids just cut through the mix nicely :)! Love them both, hard to go wrong with BKP🍻
this is one of the greates demos on youtube, amazing job!
Also I'm sadder and sadder that I clearly had to dish out 300 bucks for the Holy diver set. It sounds too good...
Thank you so much mate, that's very cool of you to write, really appreciate it! Ha, it's worth every penny my friend, I'm sure you'll enjoy the pickups 🍻
Love your melodic playing ;-) great. Are ist you using an amp or Plug-in? If so which? Cheers ;-)
Thank you so much Henrik, appreciate it my friend :)! It's all plugins - the Brainworx Suhr PT100 for the rock and mildly driven tones and Neural DSP Soldano for the Metal, Solo and Clean Tones.
Amazing phrasing indeed
@@ericsabbath thank you mate, very glad you like the playing :)!
What a great comparison! They're both sounding really "full" which is great. i'm currently searching for a pair to put them into my Gibson Studio which is chambered. Would you recommend the Warpigs over the Holy Divers due to the slightly higher output for Doom/Stoner stuff? Or maybe another set of Bareknuckles?
Hi mate, really appreciate it and cheers for checking the video out. Absolutely, to me the Warpig is king for stoner and doom stuff, even for bluesier and more atmospheric passages the split coil tones sound great, hard to go wrong with the Warpigs considering what you described.
@@gabriel_guitar thanks man, appreciate that you took the time to answer!
I am now consulting with BKP helpdesk deciding between Ragnarok/Silo/Poly for my solid body Strandberg, but the support person said a thing about chambered guitars along the way: "For chambered I would go for less bass, more clarity, maybe slightly less power than the Rags.". I think that's referring to the specific (bigger?) resonance of chambered guitars, which with bassy pickups may be too much. Please don't take this seriously I am a noob, just thought I'd share what I heard when saw chambered and warpig in the same sentence.
@@bissekerskij thanks for the input mate, in a way it makes sense and I haven't really considered it, very helpful! Which set did you choose? I've got a new set o polymaths that I'm dying to try out btw
@@gabriel_guitar ah its a pain to choose.. especially as I am targeting to have just a single guitar for a long time and I kinda want those to be as versatile as possible, but it must for sure do heavy stuff with power and clarity, then ambient stuff, then coil split, then no harshness, but not too dark.. dah I'm a mess in explaining things :) still choosing between the Ragnarok, Silo and Polymath.. I'm already on the line with support discussing this, but at current moment it raises more questions than answers plus they brought to my attention that I may mix those, so the amount of combinations is huge and I'm completely lost now :D
Can you tell me how you have your Warpig wired in your solar guitar?? I assume your guitar has the 5-way blade switch. I am in the process of installing Bare Knuckle pickups myself Into a Solar without the help of a guitar tech.
Hi, I got a Seymour Duncan Liberator that I wired to the 5-way blade, in my particular case I was too lazy to connect the tone potentiometer back on. I can send photos of how it’s wired if you drop me a message on fb or Instagram.
I have bkp warpig(Ceramic birdge),it sounds too bright..So i use Lundgren black heaven now
Oh awesome, been meaning to try the Lundgren pickups for while, I’m sure they sound excellent. Can imagine the ceramic version of the Warpig being a lot brighter than mine, but didn’t realise it could be that bright, interesting :)
The c-pig is quite even sound, despite of the huge low end
@@ericsabbath nice one, hopefully I'll give the C-pig a go in the near future, it'd be interesting to hear how it sounds compared to the Alnico version. Cheers for checking the video out mate.
Alnico or ceramic warpig? I just got mine in today, but I opted for the Alnico version. Trying out the boot camps as well.
Hi John, it’s the Alnico version of Warpig, amazing pickup mate! Nice one about the bootcamps, they should sound great too 🍻
Holy divers or the nailbomb?
Hey man, for this particular guitar I think the Nailbomb is a better match. Love both of them though :)
Warpig for me
I have to agree with you, at least on this guitar the Warpig seems to be a better fit 👍🏻
Choose Warpig to make normal songs,choose holy diver to make holy metal! Yeah. That’s awesome I think : D
Haha, brilliant stuff mate 😂😂
@@gabriel_guitar bro,i think your instagram link is a wrong link,I can’t searching you
Cheers for pointing that out bro - just fixed it ;)!
@@gabriel_guitar okay 👍
Seems like the Warpig is quite bright and the holy diver is fatter. I like the Warpig Better for rythm but the Holy Diver wa ssmoother and fuller for leads. Apart from that they are quite close.
Bit more higher harmonics on the holy diver
For sure mate, it seems to have a bit more upper mids
@@gabriel_guitar great shootout btw. I have the divers in my V. Was just curious about the differences to the warpigs because I got close to getting those for another guitar. Thanks
That’s awesome, very glad you got something out of it mate :)! They’re very different pickups that can compliment the right guitar very well, if I had a bright guitar that required some extra mojo, I’d go for the warpig, on the other hand if I had a guitar that sounded too muddy I’d probably go for the Holy Diver. 🤘🏻
Sounds the same to me lol
The differences are subtle in a mix, but they're there. It's more apparent If you listen to the isolated tracks with headphones or good speakers.
Pick your poison, you can EQ anything...