Installed hot rails…not sure I like it…

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Seymour Duncan…installed it in a standard Strat. Less noise but also less tonal qualities. Maybe that’s why they sell the vintage rails and cool rails?
 
Apparently that’s the case. Supposedly fatter tone with hot rails, and a brighter tone with standard or vintage. Shit, now I need another guitar so’s I can have the best of both worlds.
 
I tried Hot Rails a few years back, and the Fender Lace Sensors.... I thought both of them sucked...

Replaced them with JBjrs -- now THOSE rocked!
 
I have been using EMG SA pickups in my strat since 1984. They sound excellent. I don't think about pickups anymore.
 
'been preachin' the gospel of bill lawrence pickups......

sorry you didn't get that......

sorry you're not happy.....

pickups are tricky..... one mans poison.........
 
Well, I bought a cheap guitar the other day, and someone had put the hot rails in it. I took it out of the cheap guitar and put it in mine. It cost me what the hot rails would have cost, so I can sell the guitar and get my money back and keep the hot rails. …so I’m not too heartbroken. I was expecting a little more out of the thing though.
 
I think I like it. I think I was expecting too much…all the hype got to me…I think I like it better than the Standard Strat pickup it replaced. I do see the need for having the Standard pickup too, soooo...
 
Damn I almost bid on some Hot Rails on Ebay but maybe I will hold off.... I have a terrible hum in my current humbucker and was looking for a quieter solution..
 
i have two ......

one in my amer strat and one in a tele knock off i'm building ....i think i may have my strat maybe parallel and th tele series they dsay series is hotter and th tele is definitlay hotter than th strat but they both are what i'm lookin for in the respective guitars ....also i wired up th front pickup in th strat so i can play it with th back one,has a different tone than bridge and mid ,a lil fuller i'm satisfied ....i want one for th middle and front maybe cool rails in those spots though ....later
 
Re: i have two ......

lesterpaul said:
one in my amer strat and one in a tele knock off i'm building ....i think i may have my strat maybe parallel and th tele series they dsay series is hotter and th tele is definitlay hotter than th strat but they both are what i'm lookin for in the respective guitars ....also i wired up th front pickup in th strat so i can play it with th back one,has a different tone than bridge and mid ,a lil fuller i'm satisfied ....i want one for th middle and front maybe cool rails in those spots though ....later
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Trouble is, to find out what you want and what works, it takes time and money, and experimentation, and more money, tear it apart, put it together, tear it apart, put it together, etc. :rolleyes:
 
I know what you mean Monty. I put a JBjr in the bridge of my strat about a year ago. I was really let down. The only reason I haven't taken it out is because I don't like the strat bridge sound to begin with. In fact, I probably made the biggest tonal gain just by connecting the bridge pickup to a tone pot.

So while it is far from my expectation, it is at least useable.
 
I have a Fender Strat Deluxe with Lace Sensors. They suck, they sound like shit with the TBX tone control.

So, I am going to install Texas Style pick-ups and change my tone control to a standard one 250K.

I should get more output with these pick-ups, the same ones are installed into the SRV strat. They are wound more then the standards.
 
In my experience, pickups llike that are made for high gain sounds. If you aren't running your amp at 11 they will probably sound sucky. I had something like that (maybe exactly that) in a bass wood strat copy with a floyd rose and I really liked it. Very tight contained sound for crunch. Not exactly a vintage sound tho.
 
Another thing that bugs me about the hot rails…I was expecting less microphonics…not so. Anyone know what pickups have very little microphonics, but still with good sound? Maybe something from Bill Lawrence...
 
I got a strat with hot rails - neck cool rails - middle JB- Bridge

What I can say about it is that it rocks... in the neck position i got f****ng fat tones, really vintage tones in the middle and sweet rocknroll sounds bridge. For me it is perrfect combination, 'couse i can play from jazz to heavy stuff without the need for anothr guitar... of course, the amp has to do with your sound too.
Do not expect to sound like Tremonti, using a behringer amp, or like B.B King using carvin amps....!
 
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