The Ultimate Pickup for 80’s Tone?? Bare Knuckle Holy Diver!
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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Gear Used:
EVH stripe series guitar
Bare Knuckle Holy Diver pickups
Marshall DSL 20 HR
ENGL 212 W/ V 30’s
XOTIC BB preamp overdrive
Apogee Hypemic
SM 57 mic
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Damn! You have a good ear, Gregg! That pickup completely delivers with the 80s tone for sure. Dead on with matching the tone for 'Round and Round', 'Two Minutes to Midnight' and 'In My Darkest Hour' to name a few. Great guitar playing! 👏
Thanks so much! It really is the perfect pickup for those tones!!
When it comes to pickups I keep going round and round maybe this is the one
I see what you did there! Also yes they are
You sonofabich
I will also add that I think of the JB a lot as that pickup is what Mathias Jabs used back then. His tone was perfect.
I can sit in my basement and get pissed at how my guitars sound, but as soon as I play with a band, I love my tone.
Yes! This is the only pickup i use! It's amazing!
Perfect demo!
Thanks!
Yes! The Holydiver is to be matched with basswood, they go perfect together, they have a metallic ring in the highs and they're super clear.
100%!
I agree with you. But Tim always recommends Cold Sweat to anyone to emails him asking which pickups are best for basswood. The answer that comes back is always Cold Sweat. 😅
Killer playing and tones, man!
Thanks!!!
You played the exact song's I needed to hear for that amazing tone I want!!! Thanks so much.
Buying some Holydivers soon.
Thanks! You'll love those pickups!
Great video! Holy Diver is definitely a killer 80’s pickup! I used to like the BKP Painkiller a little better for its EQ curve for my taste. But as of now I’m currently using my signature Alchemist humbucker from Voodoo custom pickups in most my guitars and I still have a handful of Seymour Duncan’s in my other guitars. Mostly the JB, Full Shred, Custom 5 (SH-14) the SH-10 George Lynch screaming demon, Nazgul, and Omega.
Thanks! I love all those pickups too and I'm super stoked to try this new voodoo custom pickup!!!
This totally sold me on replacing my JB. Great playing and tones!
Thanks! Definitely a big upgrade. You'll love it!
Man, great demo! Awesome playing and sound, exactly my style 🤘🔥
Thanks dude! I do a ton of 80s stuff like this on this channel!
I think that Hass to be the next set of pick ups I buy because it sounds like it’s something in between a pick up that’s great for rock music from the 1980s as well as metal. The perfect blend and you are right, the mids are incredible.
Yep! Absolutely unique and amazing mids and clarity
@@shredaintdead9323 How is it compared to the Seymour Duncan full shred pick up? It kind of reminds me of that.
@@johnsguitarmusicanddemos it has more mids and clarity, the full shred has more treble
80’s tone, and tunes rule… love the Maiden shirt.
Thanks! Totally agree 👍
Seymour Duncan JB has been my favorite for a while because it's sound is unmistakably "80s", but i have a Holy Diver in my PRS DC594 and was thinking how much "heavier" it sounded compared to the JB in my other SC594. The biggest thing are leads and clean sounds. I was playing the riff to Under the Bridge (which of course was done on a strat) on my DC594 and the Holy Diver actually had strattyish clarity. I tried the same on my 594 with the JB and I was really underwhelmed with the cleans. I may just swap the JB out for another Holy Diver. It would probably pair great with the SD 59 in the neck too. That actually has really nice cleans.
Completely agree. Love jb, but the holy diver wins for clean, clarity and leads no contest!
@@shredaintdead9323 Just compared my two guitars again and I agree. Still like the JB though because it just has something about it that stands out. A good video would be a comparison of the two if you have them. Also, do you have a list of the songs from the video?
Good idea! I'll have to do that! No I don't, but most of them are in my top 10 80s riff video if you wanna check them out!
@@shredaintdead9323 Just did this comparison in one of my own videos. Its here if you want to check it out. ruclips.net/video/tJHzi8O98f8/видео.html
Dude you hit the nail right on the head!!!!! That was the best tone by far..............
Thanks a lot! Totally agree! Love that tone!
I could be wrong here, just making a comment after a few whiskeys. Riffs from the 80's and 90's are so much more identifiable than any in the last 15 years or so. Is it my age or just that the riffs have become... looking for the words...
There haven't been any good riffs last 15 to 20 years so that's why I focus on 80s on this channel. Everyone on RUclips is playing boring terrible chuggy djent crap that all sounds exactly the same
@@shredaintdead9323 K, so I have at least one person that agrees with me lol. It is like new metal bands are afraid to give some space, feel and groove. Let the whole band play as one. Not all but many are guilty of the chunk/low-fi/chunk one finger thing. Shred is not dead
Nissssssssssssssssssce 🍻
Just had a highschool flashback When u were riffing!🤘🏻
I owned that PU, set un in a Charvel So-Cal. I always found it too low-mids focused. It did great leads but was always disappointed of the riffing. I found my dream pickups in the Rebel Yell, still from BKP. Less compressed, gnarly midrange and a different flavor of high mids and highs that always make me feel like George Lynch would enjoy playing these pickups.
I'll have to try that one! I have a few bkp pickups. All are so good
"If you're like me..."
... We'd be institutionalized, or at least medicated and under strict supervision.
Haha
Mike…. comment of the year! 🤘😆 I love it!
Great playing and tone. Cool EVH!
Thanks!!!
Best tone I have ever heard. I ordered the holy diver pickup for a baswood guitar body. Hope it will match!
Thanks a lot! That was a basswood guitar in the video so you'll love it!
You got a metal machine.
Q: How did you get the pickup to fit into your EVH? Assuming you had to route out the pickup cavity a bit?
Had a tech do it for me. Can't remember if he had to route or not
This is the first video I’ve seen in literally dozens of videos of kids bashing on 7-strings with a jackhammer, or shredding on already high-gain amps, dimed (as if they were Marshalls). There’s not one video that I know short of this, that shows riffing, or God forbid some power chords, on gain levels that would be considered “super-crunch”, at this point. So, major kudos for the fact that you get it. *My question, as far as this video goes, is what’s causing the shrillness? Is that the amp, or is the pickup voiced that way? The clarity and note-separation is great, but it’s sounds thin.* I’ve got NO problem with paying the money (not to mention the wait coming from the U.K.), but until now I’ve not seen a BKP pickup gear towards all the killer tones we love from the late 70’s & 80’s. I’m all-but convinced to stay with my Tone-Zone, or JB, at this point. Thanks again for sharing!
Thanks! I don't find the pickup shrill at all. Maybe it's the way I have the amp dialed here. It's definitely not a shrill pickup. The Holydiver is a much better jb in my opinion. I've played both for years and the diver is superior in every way.
@@shredaintdead9323 Outstanding. I'm going to go ahead, and pick one up for my HSS strat. I'm not happy at all with my Rebel Yell (at least not in my strat). It may be a great pup for a Les Paul style guitar, but terrible for my strat. Glad I reached out. Thank you.
Man oh man bring back some good memories with the Priest. Sounds great but, most BKP’s do. Great demo of this one for anyone looking.
Thanks dude! They're absolutely killer for classic 80s bands like Priest for sure!
YEAH!
Alright dude I’m buying this next check.
Awesome video, my les Paul came with dimarzios super distortion and I think they are kind of muddy, I really like the clarity of the holly divers. Great playing as well thanks
Thanks! Really appreciate it! Also check out my video on my signature 1987 and 88 pickup set. If you like the divers, you'll love those too.
Yes I didn't like the SD in my les paul either. To me,they sound better in a strat style guitar.
I think you just might be right. Good jamin, God bless all.
Thanks! Also check out my video on my signature 1987 pickup!
Dude loved this video and channel! You just earned a sub! Where can I find these pickups I would like to buy them
Thanks!!! You can find them on reverb. Also check out my video of my signature 1987 and 1988 pickup set. If you dig the divers, you'll love those too!!
@@shredaintdead9323 Okay thank you so much! And I sure will!
Agreed 👍
So is that the best bareknuckle pickup in your opinion? They have so many different pickups it’s hard to compare and know the difference.
This sounds great in this video.
Thanks! I've only tried this one and the true grit set. Both are great, but this one is wayyy better no contest. This one is better then every pickup I've tried. Closest thing to it is the suhr Doug Aldrich. It's a darker version of this with more bass. Not as much clarity.
@@shredaintdead9323 yeah they do sound great. Very clear. I’ve read that bareknuckle pickups are scatter wound, meaning it’s wound by hand which is not as precise as a machine, so the windings are not all perfectly aligned. Supposedly that reduces distributed capacitance and makes the pickup sound clearer. If I have a guitar I want to change pickups in I’d use those.
@@jb_50w78 another set I'm looking at is the brute force pickup. Basically this pickup with a bit more low end and a little cheaper then their standard pickup. I've heard great things about that too!
@@shredaintdead9323 I have a Jason Richardson signature Ernie ball music man cutlass guitar and it has amazing pickups. The pickups are made by music man in the factory for the guitar so you can only get them in the guitar (or maybe you can call and ask to buy just those pickups from the factory?). Those sound amazing and I can get a similar kind of 80s tone with them.
@@jb_50w78 not sure, but they sound awesome and that's a sick guitar and he's an incredible player!
Ha brilliant!
Appreciate you have the same guitar and changed the pickup cause I cant decide if I should change it or not.
It's a killer pickup! Also check out my video on my signature 1987 pickup with voodoo custom pickups. As good as bareknuckle at half the price! USA custom handwound pickups.
Bare knuckle makes a great pickup. However, I don't think they are doing anything better than a Dimarzio Tone Zone, Super Distortion or SD-JB for 80s music. I just placed a SBS Arena Crunch in my Harley Benston fusion and HOLY Sh#t!
I'm a huge jb and sbs guy too just got one of those awesome guitars! The Holydiver smokes everything else though. If you played one you'd agree.
@shredaintdead9323 just came back around to this vid. The holy divers do sound great. Great playing.
@@vmathias2023 thanks! They are killer!
Well I will say every amp you recommended me to get.. turned out out to be awesome.So that pickup must be good also even I have to go down to the midnight sea to get it
So far they're unbeatable, and I've tried everything
It sounds really good! How would you compare it to a dimarzio super distortion?
@ericandrews1661 thanks! No idea. Never played one. Not a dimarzio fan at all
I've also found it's good for Drop A as well.
Fantástico... cubre un gran espectro sonoro...!!! Muy buena demo...👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤟🏻💪🏻👏🏻
Thanks!
Great playing, especially the purposeful mistakes to avoid copyright infringement.
You get it!
Awesome video. Looking for a new 80’s pickup. Love my 2010 EVH Wolfgang but it’s more on the modern side. Can you share the settings on the amp. I have this Marshall too and it’s been a great amp, except the cleans.😀
Thanks! If you love this check out my recent video on my signature 1987 pickup! My settings are bass and resonance are 10 o clock treble and presence at noon mids at 2 and gain at noon
Dude ! This is epic! I'm building a frankenstrat , seems like a perfect match?
It's absolutely the perfect match!!!
I'm thinking of dropping a set of these in a 2005 Les Paul Standard Faded, I want this tone in a Lester!
Awesome!
I've got a set of these in a Gibson SG and while the really good they're basically just a variation on the DiMarzio super distortion, I know because I've got a set of those in another Gibson SG I've got and they're very close, at least in my rig.
Never played one so not sure. Never played a dimarzio I actually liked.
Great Video :D
What is the Song at 7:10ish?
Getting an Ibanez RG 565 and am definitely thinking about a holy diver in the bridge.
Sad that Bareknuckle has no humbuckers in the single-coil format for the neck position.
you've earned yourself a sub
Thanks! I just made that lick up at 7:10 for the video. And thanks for subscribing! You can't go wrong with this pickup. It's absolutely killer!
@@shredaintdead9323 oh wow you have some tasty licks then :D
Keep em coming 👌🏼
@@LUCKYWH1TE thanks! Will do!
Hi, same here, I have an Rg565 too, thinking to change the pickups and the holy diver bridge is one of my faves. The other two are Seymour Duncan Frankenstein ( or EVH Frankenstein, is the same pickup lol)
Have you swapped yours yet?
Thanks for suggesting the Holy Diver. Bareknuckle's reps also recommended this to me before I saw your video recently. I am looking for good alternatives to the Duncan JB as the JB is still the only passive pickup I've somewhat enjoyed since dumping the EMG 81. What else is out there if not the Holy Diver??? I have to do an exchange at DiMarzio and the best things they offer for the JB sound are supposedly the Andy Timmons and the Norton. People highly recommend the Duncan Custom (TB-5 model). Some have suggested the Suhr Aldrich. I will try the Holy Diver eventually.
I actually have a video on the channel comparing the Aldrich and the Holydiver, both very similar. The Aldrich is just a bit darker. I actually have a new signature pickup called the 1987 with voodoo custom pickups. They're awesome USA handwound pickups as good as bareknuckle at half the price! There's a preview video of it out now, and my next video will be the full neck and bridge humbucker set demo!
@@shredaintdead9323 Gregg Block custom set, coming soon, I see on their site. Were you going for a JB family-type of sound with this custom bridge pickup? How does it differ? I think I keep coming back to a couple of classic 80s sounds that are kind of ideal in my mind: Mick Mars rhythm sound (Theatre of Pain), and Trevor Rabin's rhythm for YES (FS-1 single coil, super hot). But, I play death-doom (Peaceville) and NWOBHM-black metal kind of like Darkthrone.
@@moribnd basically jb/Holydiver pickups are alnico 5 magnets. Even amount of lows, mids and highs, my set are alnico 4. More mids, and a bit more lows too. Better string separation, clarity and articulation for leads.
@@shredaintdead9323 OK, thanks... that clarity thing might not be for me, but it's hard to say until one tries. Do you prefer Dimarzio over SD generally? Which Dimarzios did you like most? Norton, SuperD, other?
@@moribnd I'm not really a dimarzio fan. Way more of a duncan person personally.
Fantastic...
But there's something with the spectrum sound:
When the BK opens up treble and bass something happens to the mids where you lose in the mix with a band
That's what the JB DOES, it has a perfect mid frequency that you cannot miss in the mix
BK sounds beautiful alone, but how about in a mix?
I've used it ive many times playing 4hr sets and never been lost in the mix with it ever.
@@shredaintdead9323 thanks. I've been reading the original JB was loaded with 14k DC resistance... the same as the BK Holy Diver
So that orients us to get a very similar tone from the Seymour Duncan SH14, from the custom family which are 14k DC resistance or so
Instead of comparing the "modern" JB
Bare knuckle pickups have something different than Duncans the same way as Lollars, I dunno what but they are louder. As far as I've played with them, and as I grew up with Seymour stuff, I prefer them since EACH of them are UNIQUE, they are not the same pickup from the same model. The new JB feels overloaded but that doesn't mean you have more power or clarity, instead you have a very mid projection you can't find in any other pickup in the market.
Well, I liked what I heard from the Holy Diver demos but not enough to change my JB for one of them, and it doesn't have anything to do with the extra bucks you pay for them; you have for the bottle of wine and so the cups...
Thanks for the info
Great playing of yours and such a great demo
Cheers!
@@miguellopez106 thanks! I'm a huge jb fan, but the Holydiver is just a better version of it. Playing one you'll see. It feels better and has more clarity and pickups nuances more. It's killer!
@@shredaintdead9323 I think I'll give it a try. I have a new Schecter E-1 apocalypse purple and is swamp ash body set maple neck with ebony fretboard and I was thinking in a JB to make 5his guitar screams mids, but clarity would be such an amazing tone if you can open up air in the pickup response with a Holy Diver... that would be my ticket to get one of them; I'll try both anyway to decide which one fits better for soloing works.
I just picked up a Charvel wiyh the HOLY DIVER in it. What is the suggested pock up height?
I hear that can make or break a bare knuckle.
Gotta be honest, I am extrenely underwhelmed.
It doesnt push amps or pedals at all, sounds weak.
No idea what the suggested height is, but I've had multiple bare knuckle pickups in multiple guitars and they never sound weak at all. Especially not the Holydiver. It's a pretty hot pickup
@@shredaintdead9323 could certainly be on my end, bad amp, crappy pedal or something. Crappy cord etc.
Thanks for responding, I appreciate it.
You have the ear for tone bro, fabulous demo. Check the Holy diver megadeth demo on my channel.. The bareknuckle Holy diver set is my fave and has never left my flying V (my fave guitar).. I think it's my fave bkp and fave pickup ever. The neck is a great match and nice fat and juicy.
Thanks dude! Really appreciate it! I absolutely will!
What about the Seymour Duncan Full Shreds? Have you tried em? Thinking of trying a set in one of my guitars for 80s metal.
I have those in my charvel dk24. Also great, but Holydiver is much better in my opinion. I also have a signature set of pickups called the 1987 dropping in about a week with voodoo custom pickups. There's a preview video on this channel. They're literally made to be the ultimate 80s metal pickups!
@@shredaintdead9323 Ty for the reply! Bare Knuckles are so expensive though (at least if you live in sweden), bought a nailbomb set recently for a modern metal guitar. Yeah I saw your demo of it, really nice! Don't know about the Alnico 4 though but I understand your reasoning why you chose it. Might be the perfect balance. I really dig your channel btw! It is refreshing so keep up the awesomeness!
@@rickardmoller7824 thanks a lot!! Really appreciate it!! I have a super funny new video dropping today btw. Just a few mins actually!
Great pkup....not cheap though..🤘..
Nothing good is haha
Sounds great. “Sort of.” Lmao!!!
Thanks! "Sort of"
@@shredaintdead9323 😂 947!
@@shredaintdead9323 00:49
I feel like there's a joke in here about going knuckle deep but I'm not gonna be the one to figure it out
Hahaha
Sounded great generally , just a bit too gained up . But an easy mistake to make when playing unaccompanied.
Body wood is Ash? I can't speak english little, sorry!
Basswood on that guitar
That is a great pickup.
But that instrument is not for that crunch.
It makes it thin sounding.
No body in that tone.
Stick that pickup in the Yamaha SG2000 and you will know what I am talking about.
Thanks for taking time to make this great video.
Holy Diver or Rebel Yell?
Haven't tried the rebel yell, but I love the Holydiver. Can't imagine I'd like the rebel yell more.
This pickup sounds like a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, just try one
I have. This is better. Those are pretty bright. This is much more mid focused
I thought you liked the EVH lunchbox better than the Marshall? Why aren't you using that?
I like using both. 2 different flavors of 80s. Plus I think the marshall takes a boost better. But doesn't mean I don't love my evh!
@@shredaintdead9323 If I told you DeMartini and Lynch were my favorite 80s guitarists, which one would you suggest I buy? Thx! PU sounds great. Love that you so melodic 80s stuff, everyone else is doing modern metal chug stuff only.
@@jjsmagicdream thanks! Literally half the reason I started this channel. Can't stand all this boring ass modern chug crap. And here's what I think. If you want a good clean channel and something that can get good 80s and modern tones go with the lbx stealth. The marshall can get every classic 80s tone from every 80s band ever, but doesn't really have a clean channel, just an unuseable crunch/cleanish channel.
For a moment I thought I was listening to v rock gta vice city ost 1 and 2
OK? Haha
Dimarzio super distortion.
Ewwww dimarzio
Bare Luckle? LUCKY? If I could play like you, my audience would be bare naked regardless of the Bare Luckles. LUCKY!
Haha probably!! Try it and report back...
@@shredaintdead9323 I can't. It'll take years to acquire playing that'll inspire an audience to get naked.
@@jimbodavis1944 and???
@@shredaintdead9323 You said “Try it and report back…” Well…I can’t (yet). Sort yourself…
@@jimbodavis1944 well I didn't say there was a time limit so even if it takes years, report back
SOUNDS TO THIN
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They sound good, but who puts out a video without drop tuned chugging? We all know that’s what the people want. I can’t play rhythms or leads but I can kinda chug on a dropped tuned axe………well not really that either but you get my point.😉
80s is all about da chugsss!
The man wants the chugga chugga Choo Choo train
That humbucker sounds only good on a double cut guitar either bolt on neck with alder or basswood bodies. Not good sounding on single cut guitars such as les paul guitars or any mahogany body type guitar.
Idk man I've seen plenty of guys use them in single cuts with great success as well. But I see it as probably designed for a basswood or alder double cut with a trem type player like myself