Author Topic: Introduction and Rebel Yell cover info (Read 2698 times)

ToneMonkey · « **on:** August 24, 2006, 02:33:31 PM »

Hello ladies and gents. This is my first post on this forum so I suppose I should introduce myself.

My names Kaj and I'm fairly useless on the guitar, but I picked it up again after putting it down as a teenager and over the last couple of months I've been practicing until my fingers are sore. But now I'm definately getting better.

I have been working on building a guitar for a while (a double cut Les Paul) but I have put that on hold for a while until I can actually play a bit better. I'm also currently working on steel body resonators with a luthier who now builds full time. I would post a link up to his site, but could someone tell me that this is OK, I wouldn't want anyone to think that I was advertising or anything.

Recently I purchased a Patrick Eggle Berlin Anniversary direct from the Eggle factory (albeit through a good friend) for the bargin price of £150. It was made back in the time when Mr Eggle still owned the factory, the only thing that it needed was the masking tape removing from the fret board (which wasn't easy considering it had been sprayed over and left for about 10 years, buffing up and all the hardware being added. Oh and the cavity covers too, but nothing too hard.

I was going to buy a cheap guitar and use that to practice on as I didn't want the Eggle floating around my front room to be knocked over by the group of drunkards I call my mates. However, I've decided to get myself the Vox AD30VT and use the Eggle through that. This though means that I need some pickups, which is why I'm here. At the minute I've got some old Ibanez humbuckers to put in there for the time being. However, when the money comes about again (hopefully near Christmas) then I'll be looking around for the proper ones.

Now, I play all kinds of music (badly) so I want something versitile. I was going to wind my own and have built a pup winder to do this (out of mechano, a remote controlled car and a toy plane), but as they have to go on a good guitar, I want the good pickups.

I have been looking at the rebel yell pups, mainly due to the adds in the guitar mags. What really impressed me to be begin with was the little ray gun on the top of the pup (yes, I am that fickle) but looking in the shop, you don't seem to be able to buy it. Is this the case or am I missing something?

Can anyone help me with selecting a good pair of HB's? Like I said, I try to play loads of different styles from Django Reinhart to Lawn Mower Death (well maybe not that different but you get my drift).

Cheers guys, good forum, I'm off to look around some more. Thanks in advance for any help :band5:

deg0ey · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2006, 07:32:54 PM »

To order those covers, you just order a regular covered set (in whichever colour suits you) and ask for "ray gun etching" in the comment box.

I'm sure you could get it on any pickup cover if you wanted to though, so choose the pickup based on its sounds rather than the ray gun.

As it happens, I would probably recommend the Rebel Yell as being one of the most versatile (from what others have said - not actually played one) although my Holy Diver can easily cover pretty much anything that might take my fancy (and I played "Red Red Wine" followed by "Cthulhu Dawn" the other day - no problems at all :))

ToneMonkey · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2006, 08:53:31 AM »

Cheers mate. I've been looking through all the pups and it's a bit daunting to be honest. As I haven't been playing that long, I don't really have anything to campare them against.

Unfortunately I only get to play on the internet at work so it can be a bit hard to paly the soundclips.

The sound of the pickup would always have been more important then the engraving, so my decision was always going to be based on that. Although if you can get the ray gun on any pup then that would be cool too.

Nothing left to do than trawl through more soundclips when the boss goes out then.

Cheers mate

deg0ey · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2006, 08:57:21 AM »

The sound clips are good, but there's not much to choose between the BKPs in terms of quality - you just need the one which gets the sounds you're after...most of them are fairly versatile (possibly with the exception of the ceramics?) and will take most of what you throw at them...

What would be good is if you tell us what kind of sound you're looking for - maybe some guitarists whose tone you like, so we can get in the sort of area you should be looking...

ToneMonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2006, 08:59:49 AM »

Well, I've been thinking about this for a few days now and I've come to an answer.......

.......I Dunno :roll:

I really haven't been playing that long and I'm still trying to find what it is that I'm after. That's why I bought he Vox, so that I can play around with different amps.

I'm definately more of a retro man, it seems that the old Fender and Vox models are being used way more than the rest. I don't think that I'm a super high gain, big hair and spangly trouser type rocker.

I'm currently going to throw in some Dimarzo's that I have, an X2N and a non descript neck humbucker (both pulled off an Ibanez), so that I have a reference point to work from.

I'll keep you informed as to how it goes.

deg0ey · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2006, 09:39:27 AM »

The X2N is their ultra gain pickup, isn't it?

I think you'd be fairly happy with a pair of mules - check out the clips and hopefully someone who owns them will turn up to help you out :drink: