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Seymour Duncan SHPR-1 P-Rails
THE P-RAILS pickups were designed to combine the distinctive sounds of P-90s, single coils, and humbuckers into a sort of tonal ménage à trois, allowing you to gig or record with one guitar rather than having to bring three. How successfully they perform will, of course, be largely dependent on the guitar they reside in—in this case we tested them in a Korean-made ESP PB-500. The wellconstructed PB-500 is a mahogany instrument with a set neck, a 22-fret rosewood fretboard, a 24.75" scale-length, single Volume and Tone controls, a 3-position pickup selector, and a 3-position mini-toggle for configuring the pickups. It sells on the street for around $650. The front P-Rail is mounted flush to the bottom edge of the fretboard, the rear about a half-inch from the bridge, and the rail portions of both pickups face each other on the inside.
At the heart of each P-Rail is a full-sized alnico V P-90 with average DC resistances of 7.25kW (neck) and 10.20k (bridge). Alongside the P-90 is a single-coil alnico V rail with average DC resistances of 5.60k (neck) and 8.56k (bridge). While that approximately 1.60k difference isn’t theoretically optimal for hum cancellation purposes, in practice it works out just fine.
Depending on how the four leads from each pickup are wired, and the number and type of switches used, lots of variations are possible from a set of two P-Rails. In our review guitar, the single mini-toggle lets you select P-90, rail, or both wired in series (humbucker) when using a single pickup, and two P-90s, two rails, or two humbuckers when both pickups are selected—for a total of nine distinctly different sounds. Obviously, adding switches for phase, parallel/series operation, etc., would result in even more options.
Seymour Duncan SHPR-1 P-Rails
THE P-RAILS pickups were designed to combine the distinctive sounds of P-90s, single coils, and humbuckers into a sort of tonal ménage à trois, allowing you to gig or record with one guitar rather than having to bring three. How successfully they perform will, of course, be largely dependent on the guitar they reside in—in this case we tested them in a Korean-made ESP PB-500. The wellconstructed PB-500 is a mahogany instrument with a set neck, a 22-fret rosewood fretboard, a 24.75" scale-length, single Volume and Tone controls, a 3-position pickup selector, and a 3-position mini-toggle for configuring the pickups. It sells on the street for around $650. The front P-Rail is mounted flush to the bottom edge of the fretboard, the rear about a half-inch from the bridge, and the rail portions of both pickups face each other on the inside.
At the heart of each P-Rail is a full-sized alnico V P-90 with average DC resistances of 7.25kW (neck) and 10.20k (bridge). Alongside the P-90 is a single-coil alnico V rail with average DC resistances of 5.60k (neck) and 8.56k (bridge). While that approximately 1.60k difference isn’t theoretically optimal for hum cancellation purposes, in practice it works out just fine.
Depending on how the four leads from each pickup are wired, and the number and type of switches used, lots of variations are possible from a set of two P-Rails. In our review guitar, the single mini-toggle lets you select P-90, rail, or both wired in series (humbucker) when using a single pickup, and two P-90s, two rails, or two humbuckers when both pickups are selected—for a total of nine distinctly different sounds. Obviously, adding switches for phase, parallel/series operation, etc., would result in even more options.
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