Rebel yells in alder + maple top ?

[Super_Sonic]

 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.

[Will]

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

[Twinfan]

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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[hunter]

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.

[Zaned]

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