Crawler Bridge - some new thoughts

[Slartibartfarst42]

Exactly, the Rebel Yell is brighter than the Holydiver and so is the 498T and the A-Bomb.

[Dave Sloven]

Exactly, the Rebel Yell is brighter than the Holydiver and so is the 498T and the A-Bomb.

I haven't used a HD or a RY but I've had the 498T and A-Bomb in the same guitar and I can tell you that the A-Bomb has a lot more mids and treble detail (hair) than the 498T.  It also has more clarity and string separation.  Unless you want raspier mids than the 498T I would recommend looking elsewhere, maybe the ceramic NB or the CS.  I have actually found the CS to sound closer to the 498T than the A-Bomb.

[Slartibartfarst42]

That inherent hairiness in the A-Bomb did concern me. In many ways I find the 498T to be somewhere inbetween the A-Bomb and the Cold Sweat because it seems to be raspier than the Cold Sweat but nothing like the A-Bomb. Perhaps the Rebel Yell would be the answer if that raspy hairiness is tamed a bit.

[Dave Sloven]

I think that the 498T sounds a bit 'thin' compared to the CS.  However I suspect that the RY could be thinner again.  It really needs a guitar with a lot of inherent bass. I think you are right though that the 498T has more rasp than the CS, but the CS has more edge, cut, and bottom than the 498T.  I don't think there is much difference between the 498T and CS in terms of output though, whereas the A-Bomb seems to be a definite output increase.

[Slartibartfarst42]

Mmmm, I never usually like 'thin' sounding pickups so it won't be the RY and I  like that bit of rasp the 498T has so it sounds like BKP may not do what I'm after.

[richard]

Rebel Yells are NOT thin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qum0jkf-bZc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVSuYtrqzlg