Rebel Yell, C#, High Gain, Tight as Hell, and still warm.

[DoomBuggi]

I just got the Rebel Yell pickup, via lamp of this forum.   I got into my Les Paul, and I can't believe how tight and thick it sounds.  I using C# tuning, through a Maxon 0D808 Ri and a '89 Marshall 2203 Head,  and it is really tight.  I like the Painkiller as well, but this is just a different flavor.

If any of you Metal guys out there are thinking of using the AV magnets, but don't want to go there cause you think it can't hold it together, the Rebel Yell can definitely hold it together.  Straight out of the gate before adjusting height and what not, its is totally lethal sounding. 

Just saying...

[lamp]

Glad you're liking it and it got there safely!  Is definitely a great pickup! 

[Kiichi]

Yeah, the RY is often overlooked for metal applications. Amazing PU all in all, from classic rock and punk, to Ozzy tones, to very, very heavy stuff.
I have not tuned below drop d on the RY, but sides that I really agree with you on all fronts.
My short review of it remains: It ROCKS!!!!1111eleven

But remember, probably no other PU in the entire BKP range is as sensitive to height changes as the RY, so chances high you donīt even have the best tone for what you do yet.

[darkbluemurder]

Another RY fan here - great for those Ozzy/Sykes tones.

Cheers Stephan

[DoomBuggi]

Glad you're liking it and it got there safely!  Is definitely a great pickup! 

Thanks allot!  I appreciate the good deal deal with you.  Especially, for all the way across the ocean.  I do like it, and its going to be a keeper.  I am really liking this pickup.  I play really heavy music, and this pickup can totally keep up with realm of what I'm doing.  Its really refreshing to have that kind of tightness from an alnico V.  I'm not shredder, I like to do heavy riffing.  When I do leads, they tend to be more bluesy, and simple, so it works out great with this pickup.  I am using a Duncan Alnico Pro II in the neck for the time being.  Out of the Duncans, it is my favorite neck pickup.  Its sounds really good with the RY.   

 Now I have to buy another guitar to stick the PK in.  I'm also interested in the WP as well.  Gibson makes a guitar that called a BFG, I was looking at one of those.  All though, I would take out the kill switch on it, and put the toggle back where it is originally located and put the tone pot back in where they place the toggle. 

 I thought that guitar might be bitchin' with a Pig-90 or Supermassive, and C-Pig Bridge.

[MAJ Meadows SF]

I am pretty sure that the rythym tracks on the Red Seas Fire EP were done with a RY bridge. Mostly 7 string tracks, and the RY has amazing tightness; the amp tone they dialed in makes it sound heavy as hell. Also, Pete Graves of the same band plays an 8 string Mayones Regius (so gorgeous) with the same RY/VHII combo. The RY is rock freaking solid in an 8 string; there are a couple youtube videos of him playing through RSF tracks with it, as well as a demostration of the Aftermath 8 vs. the RY 8. I'm pretty sold on a RY for one of my custom 7 builds, with only the C-Bomb teasing my brain to think otherwise.

So, check some of these clips to confirm the RY is indeed tight and powerful for low-tuned rock and metal.   

[DoomBuggi]

I am pretty sure that the rythym tracks on the Red Seas Fire EP were done with a RY bridge. Mostly 7 string tracks, and the RY has amazing tightness; the amp tone they dialed in makes it sound heavy as hell. Also, Pete Graves of the same band plays an 8 string Mayones Regius (so gorgeous) with the same RY/VHII combo. The RY is rock freaking solid in an 8 string; there are a couple youtube videos of him playing through RSF tracks with it, as well as a demostration of the Aftermath 8 vs. the RY 8. I'm pretty sold on a RY for one of my custom 7 builds, with only the C-Bomb teasing my brain to think otherwise.

So, check some of these clips to confirm the RY is indeed tight and powerful for low-tuned rock and metal.   

Cool, I've seen the videos already.  I don't need to confirm, because I have the Rebel Yell already.  I write pretty heavy shite, and it has more than proven to me that it is indeed a no f#%&ing around pickup.  Thanks though.

[MAJ Meadows SF]

Gotcha'. I'm glad to see your input on the RY; pairing that with those videos and tracks has me leaning hard towards it. I don't just want heavy and tight, but also the warmth and very organic voicing it has. I guess I'm talking myself into it really!