Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Swine tone

So the Bare Knuckle pickups went into my Ibanez SZ520FM. It's a pair of Warpigs.

FACT: The bridge Warpig features a distressed metal cover salvaged from WWI. It was alleged to be coming from a Mark V tank which was disintegrating in a trench. The neck Warpig includes parts dipped in toxic sludge believed to be the ingredients in making Agent Orange fluid. 

MYTH: The Warpigs are ordinary high output humbuckers with a tweaked bass response for some smooth jazz/ fusion overdrive responses or grinding low-end notes in an extreme metal distortion setting. No pigs were slaughtered to manufacture these pickups.
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Obiter dictum: A decomposing torso was discovered floating in Bedok Reservoir yesterday. In the recent wake of an uproar by Woodlands residents, when a dead body was discovered in their apartment block's roof top water tank, there might be furious demands by citizens in asking the authorities to replace the entire reservoir with a fresh water body just like the eventual replacement of the aforementioned water tank. He, he...

10 comments:

Ijau D. Koceng said...

what happen to the stock pickups?

subversion.sg said...

kept away :-) you interested?

Ijau D. Koceng said...

interested, but not now... still busy with my new kingdom

subversion.sg said...

get back to me any time, bro :-)

metalfreak said...

hey subversion, is the bridge ceramic or alnico? Do u find them dark sounding? i was considering some warpigs as well for a similar guitar (mahogany with maple top) but i'm afraid they will make it even darker.

subversion.sg said...

Regardless of the magnet type, the Warpigs were EQed to manifest more lower frequencies so if you do not wish for some boomy tones, strike the Warpigs off your list. FYi the Warpigs have similar responses to Duncan's Invader model.

metalfreak said...

i am aware of the way they are EQed, thanks, i was just looking for your opinion on the way they sound on mahogany. ceramic is slightly brighter and that is why i asked.

subversion.sg said...

you should have made that known before hand :-) i can't tell if the bridge Warpig is ceramic/ alnico because it was sold to me without the box, just the pickup. thusfar, it had been in 3 guitars: Les Paul/ RG/ SZ. in all 3 guitars, the humbucker didn't manifest any aprticularly bright tone & all those guitars sport a mahogany body. if there was some brightness to be heard then it was coming from the Les Paul's chambered body.

Ijau D. Koceng said...

oke, back to business... email me the details, thanks

subversion.sg said...

ok bro, will get back to you shortly :-)