Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Super_Sonic on May 18, 2009, 07:07:23 PM
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How would rebel yells sound in a guitar with a rosewood fingerboard, alder body, maple top, and maple neck ?
My main interests are 80s rock and metal (think dokken, steve stevens, motley crue, Ozzy's Jake E. Lee era, WASP, etc)
I'd like a pickup that can get clean with the volume backed off, and I'm also after the ability to have a nice PAFish core with a modern edge. Being able to go from hard rock to heavy metal (not thrash/hardcore stuff) would be nice.
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Check out the Holy Diver, I think it would do you better. Was a bit too much in my LP, but should fatten up a strat a lot
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HDs or Rebel Yells will suit you great. My understanding is that RYs have an upper-mid emphasis, and HDs a lower-mid emphasis. Your own personal tone preferences will dictate which suits you best.
I have HDs in my main gigging guitar, a PRS McCarty Rosewood. The tracks we do are on our MySpace and plenty of them are in the tonal ballpark you're after. I use the full neck humbucker, the full bridge humbucker and the bridge with a coil split. I love 'em :D
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Rebel Yells have a nice sizzle to them, love em in my PRS McCarty, but could be a bit much upper freq in a strat, could also be great, hard to say really.
Guess I'd go for the HDs too.
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Hi,
I have a guitar with the same wood combinations being built. The thickness of the maple top is 4 millimeters for me though.
The maple top brings the body tone of the guitar a bit closer to ash. I asked Tim for a pickups that would give a good rock/hard rock guitar, an all-around axe (it's a HSS). For the bridge pickup, I asked for a cross between Doug Aldrich's tone on DIO live dvd 'Evil or Devine', and the old Van Halen tone. I wanted good cleans, good midrange and tight attack.
I got two recommendations: HD-TS-TS, and NB-IT-IT. The first one would have a bit more output and overall more modern tone (and very punchy), while the latter would give a little less output and have a bit more vintage edge. I chose the latter.
The RY has aggression in the upper midrange, which in you guitar already gets a bit emphasized with the maple top. That's what worries me about the combination, although I admit I haven't tried it.
-Zaned