Which pickups for a dark sounding Les Paul?

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Great choice my friend! You won't be disappointed. Give us a NPD when you get it!

[darrenw5094]

For anyone curious, I just put in my order for a calibrated gold covered RY set. To replace my JB+SH2, which I am just not really getting on with.

Love to hear about the change, as i have a LP with the same Seymours and am hoping to replace them with Rebel Yell's too.  :lol:

[Acolmiztli]

Well, what I can say is... the RY's definitely feel close to the Nailbombs in terms of the raw tone.

I've only played it through Amplitube 3 at a lowish volume at the moment, being as it is 11pm !! But I definitely notice a big difference to the Seymour Duncans, also it may be my imagination, but I found it much easier to get the respect volume of each pickup close to one another - more so than the Seymours. I don't know what that could be, but it's something I noticed straight away.

I'll report back more about the tone, but yeah... initially? Very close to the Nailbombs.

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Very true, like I said earlier in the thread Steve's sig pickup was supposed to be a NB, but he wanted it underwound. The way I look at it is, the NB as many say here is perfect for 90's stuff, and RY is the one for 80's. At least between these two pickups. Glad you like them, I love mine.

[Acolmiztli]

Used the pickups in anger Thursday night.

MENTAL tone! The bridge pickup is perfect - pretty much none of the negative qualities I was experiencing with the Nailbomb or the SD JB. The neck pickup needs playing around with a little, it is quite bassy.. think I just need to adjust the height of the pole pieces for the lower strings.

But yeah - really lush and full tone. Tbh, the name of the pickup almost put me off. Rebel Yell just makes me think of Billy Idol for some reason!! Glad you guys recommended them though, they are wicked cool!