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I have a 57 reissue strat and im trying to get some pickups that have at least some shredding capabilities.I know i wont be able to pull of Real humbucker style from simple single coils.Im thinking of SD hot rails and Lil screaming demon.Are they good for soloing?

shredding in a strat? go for the dimarzio YJM pups those are made for shredding(what else to expect from malmsteen's signature pups?) and actually sound quite cool imo.

If you're looking for a humbucker sound, why dont you just buy a pickguard with humbucker cutouts and get some humbuckers? Then you can get the real humbucker sound. You would probably like a JB in the bridge. I dont know about the neck. Maybe a full shred.

But i personally like the sound of a single coil for shredding, and you dont neccessarily need a lot of output for shred. What you are looking for in a pickup to shred with is the eq, articulation, pick attack... Loserchief's reccomendation of the YJM pickups is good i you want a single coil sound.

Hope this helped

A hotrails is actually quite nice for a high gain in your face tone in a strat.. my teacher used to have a strat with 3x hotrails and a wilkison trem. It was a nice axe!

I doubt the hotrails will have the articulation that you want for shredding with high gain. I would recommend that you get the full size HBers and get the full shreds or a set of Bill Lawrence's L500's from www.billlawrence.com.

I don't think the 57 RI has a swimming pool rout, so the full size bucker is likely out of the question. A full set of hot rails might do the trick, although I've never used one in the neck position.


Originally Posted by MikeSI don't think the 57 RI has a swimming pool rout, so the full size bucker is likely out of the question. A full set of hot rails might do the trick, although I've never used one in the neck position.

A lot of people say the Hot Rails is too bassy in the neck. It's something I was actually meaning to try when I bought the HR and CR for my Peavey. But I set it up this way first, and I loved it, so I haven't seen the reason to change. Even the cool rails had a lot of bass. The HR might work, but you'd probably want to back it off a bit farther from the strings than normal. I know the Hot Rails sounds good in the other positions.

If you're forced to stick with with single coil sized pups and want a HB sound, you might also consider the JB Jr. It really is a nice sounding pup that can be used for shredding, but as jmcorey said, it doesn't have quite the articulation of it's full sized brother.

You're right about the routing.
You're going to want something very articulate, I haven't played a Hotrails but I don't think it'll be the right thing.

How do ye all think a set up of Neck--Dimarzio YJM , Mid--SD jb junior, Bridge--Hot rails.How would the sound of the dimarzio and SD sound i wonder?Im not going for a complete shredding machine,I would just like my neck at least to be capable of pulling of some decent solos while having a bridge for some good chunky riffs and keeping the mid for a more clean,strat approach to things.

See at the moment i have a full set of lace sensors and god knows that you cant solo with them.They have no tone and finally im sick of listening to them screech at me.

Route it for a Full Shred set. It'll be totally worth it.