I was going to buy the ry but i've read some opinions here on the forum about riiff raff, mule and abraxas and i'm back with doubt/ gas.. I can't win : )
Thing with BKP is that you will get a good choice of pickups for each style and guitar usually. More than one pickup can nail a style, but they will all do it with a different flavour. Believe me I know how hard it is to wrap your head around this. You gotta know what which pickup does in which kind of guitar and wood and how it reacts with the rest of the gear, or have people who kinda have some idea about this, which is what we do around here.
Even with that given you have to at least try and do what might be the hard part and figure out where your focus is and what kind of character you want to have. Does not have to be perfect, but it is important that you get as close as possible. Things like how open/compressed do I want my sound? Do I want singing or agressive? Wall of sound bass or tight punchyness? High mid or low mid focus...or centermids? All these things are on a contiuum and there are many more.
Describing sound is super hard and imagining it in your head is too...bringing the two together is an even bigger challenge.
Unfortunentally that is the process that yields the best result. So talk to us, tell is what you are looking for and we will do our best to help you along.
@Wayne_S You really say a lot of spot on things and great observations about the Rebel Yell in many different posts. I might have said this before, but it needs to be said again: It would be very, very cool if you could would write up a full blown review of it once you have really settled in with it.
The RY was my first BKP and the one that had me fall in love but you kinda point out things that I experienced but did not necerarily notice (if that makes sense) and put all the rest in fitting terms too. Cheers to those little bits of insight!
