Recent content by EddieVN

I've played various pickups over the years but my favourites have always been the Seymour Hot Rails mini-humbuckers in my strat. Loads of bite, loads of clarity. My question is, which full-sized humbuckers are meant to be closest in tone to the Hot Rails?

Can anyone name some guitars that meet the following criteria: 9.5 or 10” fingerboard radius 22 or 24 fret HH or HSH Sub-£1k Not a Fender (I love Fenders and have several but want to expand my horizons brand-wise…)

My current rig is guitar into TS9 into Engl Fireball 60 powering a Mesa 4x12. It’s perfect for the metal rhythm tone I’m after. For a solo boost I currently have an MXR 6-band EQ in the effects loop, giving a slight mid bump and overall volume boost. It works well, but I wouldn’t mind a very...

I’ve replaced the pickguard on my HH tele, and neck pickup cut isn’t big enough to accommodate the pickup ring, just the pickup. I’ve therefore mounted the pickup directly to the pickguard without the ring. The only problem is the pickup mounting screws are a bit too long and the heads don’t sit...

I want to upgrade the bridge (or just saddles) of my MIM Tele. If you had £50 to spend do you think it would be best spent replacing the entire unit with a Schaller Roller bridge, or keeping the existing bridge and replacing the saddles with Callaham ones? Both options are basically the same price.

Hi, I've got a strat with Hot Rails in the neck and bridge. I want to replace the stock middle with a nice hot single coil. Should I get a rwrp or normal wound middle pickup if I want it to be hum-cancelling with one coil of the humbucker? It would depend which coil it was wired to work with...

Guys. I have a strat with Hot Rails in neck and bridge. I’m upgrading the stock middle single coil to a Lundgren Blues. I understand that generally middle pickups in SSS guitars are RWRP so they are hum-cancelling when in positions 2 and 4. However given that I have humbuckers in neck and...

I’ve got a strat with hot rails in the bridge and neck, and want to upgrade the stock single coil in the middle position for something a bit posher. I’m after something relatively high output that still sounds tasty when clean, not too dark or P90ish sounding, and quite mid-heavy. I like to hear...