Hi,
I've got a Les Paul Standard 2008 and i want change my bridge BBPros pickup,
My influences are Foo Fighters, Queens Of the Stone Age...
I look for the Crawler or the Rebell Yell, what do you think of this selection?
Regards,
François
Hi François.
The Crawlers are darn good pickups but they are rather on the warm side. I have them on a '81 all-maple / rosewood fretboard Vox, which is rather brighter than your average LP, and they really shine, but I don't know how they'd work on a dark LP, so I guess it kinda depends on how your's sounds unplugged...
The bridge is mid/hot output level - way enough to overdrive your tubes but not over the top so you can still get nice, chimey cleans. It's warm and fat sounding with a nice "growl" in the low ends, a bit compressed (but nothing like a "hot" DM or SD), with still enough bite in the highs and hi-mids to cut thru, and tight enough to maintain a good definition under hi gain but not in a "metal" way - the overall voicing is more on the vintage side but with a "modern hot" twist, and it works as well for chunky power-chord riffs and fat singing leads.
The neck is much more on the vintage side, a bit lower output and more open souding, very beautiful warm clean tones, and can do a pretty nice "woman tone" with distortion.
The icing on the cake is the mid position, which gets the best from each pups - a bit more vintagey than the bridge alone, a bit more bite than the neck alone, and a blues lead tone to die for.
Well, at least that's how it sounds on my Vox ;)
Can't comment on the RY since I never played it, but it's a possibly a safer bet on a LP. OTHO, the voicing might be a bit too "modern" for your tastes (or not...).
My 2 cents
