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I see they box an quot;Everything Strat setquot; which is the Little '59 neck/Duckbucker middle/JB Jr. bridge.

I'm not a big fan of the regular '59 or JB, so...............

Anyone using this set-up or any of the below:

Cool Rail/Cool Rail/Hot Rail
Cool Rail/Duckbucker/Hot Rail
Duckbucker/Duckbucker/Hot Rail
Vintage Rail/Vintage Rail/Hot Rail

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Likes....dislikes???

Thanks....

I'll tell you this...the Cool rails an the Lil 59 are pretty much the same pickup as are the duckbuckers and vintage rails. I have tried the Lil 59 and it's a cool pickup, it is very much a humbucking tone...not very single coilish IMO, but still a good sound. The Duckbuckers/Vintage rails are great...I really like them alot. I think that the sound clips of the vintage rails give a pretty good idea of what they sound like

the cool rails/vintage rails/hot rails would be another everything strat set. loads of tones in there with a little extra punch in the bridge and rails so there is no string spacing issues and the rails do have a little different tone to them. maybe a little smoother

Sounds like the ticket there Jeremy!

Thanks TGWIF.....that Duckbucker looks interesting. Looks like SD's version of the Gamp;L quot;Zquot; pickup.

ALSO.......curious: Do these sound like Strat pickups (esp. in #2 amp; #4 position) minus the hum or like a Strat wishing it was an LP?

I think that the Vintage rails and Duck Buckers sound pretty Stratty to me, but the CR and HR do not...


Originally Posted by the guy who invented fireI'll tell you this...the Cool rails an the Lil 59 are pretty much the same pickup . . .

This is one of those little things where we just disagree. I think the Lil 59 is warm and smooth, while the Cool Rails has a distinctive mid-range quot;punchquot;.Originally Posted by the guy who invented fireI think that the Vintage rails and Duck Buckers sound pretty Stratty to me, but the CR and HR do not...

I agree here completely. I've gone through a fair number of pups in my Strat, and I'm pretty sure that the CR/VR/CR combo is quot;thequot; one. Great quot;Knopflerquot; tone with all three on.

Artie

Thanks Artie...that sounds good!

Heh . . . I just realized how that sounded. I meant quot;thequot; one for me, with my setup. Your mileage, of course, may vary.

i have a cool rails, vintage rails , lil 59' setup in mine... u might wanna try it out

I have a neck Cool Rail, a bridge Cool Rail at the mid and a Hot Rail at the bridge and I use one Push/Pull to split both the Cool Rails and the second Push/Pull pot to split the Hot Rail. I think it sounds great with my Strat. It covers all styles I wanted to play; Jazz, Blues, Rock, Ballad, Country and Metal.

Not to sidetrack here, but, what kind of single coil middle pickup jives with rail pickups?
I'm assuming that a Duncan SSL1 rw/rp middle pickup?

Tonight, I was wiring up a regular Custom 5, a vintage middle, and Hotrails neck.
Nothing in my pile of single coils were the right polarity. I think I'm going to end up putting a Cool Rails in the middle, since I'm now forced to buy another pickup.

Is it better to stay with rails, rather than mixing them with single coils? Anyone?

if you stick with the rails youll have hum free in all positions. unless you split the buckers in pos 2 amp; 4 you wont get humcancelling using a real single coil. if you are using the black as hot then i believe that you want a normal (non-rw/rp) pup in the middle.

by putting the duck or vintage rails in the middle, youll get more quack in the notch positions. the hot rails doesnt really sound like a strat pup, the cool rails has some stratty qualitys but with a meatier voice. the vintage rails sounds pretty bright, spanky and stratty

I think I'm going with a nickel C-5 and two Hotrail neck/middles. It's on my Gamp;L Legacy Deluxe. The vintage singles sound tiny and thin on that guitar, so I'm just turning it into a beefy sounding super strat. I'm just going to buy another Hot Rail for the middle.

I'm using the hotrails because they're the closest thing to 59 necks I've found.
I wonder if the 'new and improved' Hot Rails sound any different than the originals.
The new ones have a plastic shell, so the high E can't get stuck under the bobbin top.