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DeanS

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Rebel Yell in a strat?
« on: February 05, 2007, 09:25:50 PM »
After listening to EVH's Catherine on a different post where the general consensus was that it sounded like a RY- has anyone put one in a strat in the bridge? If so any chance of some clips?
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rockguitarstar

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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 06:30:48 AM »
i havent put the pickup in a strat persay, but when I was asking Tim for pickup recomendations for my alder bodied strat he did recomend rebels so that tells me that they indeed would work well in a strat...
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Dazza1004

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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2007, 08:20:43 AM »
I had one in my pacifica (alder) and it sounded great, very versitile and sweet.
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Twinfan

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2007, 09:33:44 AM »
Do they not sound very bright in a Strat?  I've always found the RY sound clips to be very bright sounding.  Could just be the users preferred tone though...
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JonnyScaramanga

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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2007, 04:07:35 PM »
Quote from: Twinfan
Do they not sound very bright in a Strat?  I've always found the RY sound clips to be very bright sounding.  Could just be the users preferred tone though...


250k pots to compensate?

Strats are bright anyway. It's probably no bad thing to put a bright pickup in a Strat (especially if you are keeping the stock neck and middle pickups) because then it will balance tonally. I had a humbucker in a Strat for a while that didn't work at all... I needed different EQ settings for the bridge pickup.
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Texasouthpaw

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Rebel Yell in a strat?
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2007, 06:27:39 PM »
I cannot speak for the rebell yell, which is proably the pickup i should have ordered, but I put a nailbomb in the bridge of my strat. Honestly you should ask yourself if it's worth it, because humbuckers sound  muddy with 250k pots, but if upgrade to 500k pots(which is what HB use) it allows more treble through so your single coils will sound bright and somewhat thin. If your not too worried about you cleans than have at it...If i had to do it over again I would have kept the strat S/S/S and just bought a guitar that has H/H, but if your using like a Fat Strat or a strat style guitar that came with factory humbuckers then it should work out, because they are wired diffrently then normal strats
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DeanS

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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2007, 07:25:35 PM »
Quote from: Texasouthpaw
I cannot speak for the rebell yell, which is proably the pickup i should have ordered, but I put a nailbomb in the bridge of my strat. Honestly you should ask yourself if it's worth it, because humbuckers sound  muddy with 250k pots, but if upgrade to 500k pots(which is what HB use) it allows more treble through so your single coils will sound bright and somewhat thin. If your not too worried about you cleans than have at it...If i had to do it over again I would have kept the strat S/S/S and just bought a guitar that has H/H, but if your using like a Fat Strat or a strat style guitar that came with factory humbuckers then it should work out, because they are wired diffrently then normal strats


I see where you're coming from however this is going to be a single HB with single vol- no tone control. I've decided on getting a VHII - see thread below.
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froglord

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« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2007, 10:36:15 PM »
I'm  going to get an HSS Strat with Bare Knuckles at some point. I'd concluded that it would be best to use a double concentric volume pot with 250K for the single coils and 500K for the humbuckers.

Hopefully it's possible to use a single volume knob for this, rather than having to have a dual concentric knob (although that might be good too for balancing the output volume of the singles with the HB).

Has anyone got this on an HSS guitar, and if so, how does it work out?
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JonnyScaramanga

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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2007, 11:36:51 PM »
I've never seen dual concentric pots on a Strat apart from the TBX tone control, but I can't see a problem with it.

I think I'm going to get round the whole problem by having two volume controls and one tone. The first volume and the tone will be 250k and the single coils will be wired to those. The other volume will be 500k and it'll be humbucker only.

I really like the idea of having two volume controls like that. On some songs in my band's set, I currently have to change pickups and turn up my volume control to go from verse to chorus. I try to do that without missing a beat, and it's virtually impossible. Two volumes would mean I can set the volumes where I need them and leave them alone.
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jangoux

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« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2007, 05:00:17 PM »
Why not putting a 250k resistor in series with the wire coming from the humbucker ?
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