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I put some hot rails into the bridge pickup slot on my standard mex strat. They sound great but i'm a bit concerend that they're a bit too hot. Typically, if I want noise-free distortion, I've got to take a lot of the levels out of my pedals, otherwise my guitar will squeal very loud when i'm...

Just trying to reinforce my concerns: Would a really loud hum from my pickups be caused by poor solders on the grounds? I've got my guitar wired with Hot Rails in the bridge, and using a crunchy distortion I get a very loud squeal that you'd normally get if you pointed your pickups towards a...

They're all in and functional -- However, My guess is the solder is really, really weak because when I go to pick up up and play it naturally, the guitar will cut out with a static-y sound. I've soldered, cleaned, and re-soldered everything coordinating with the volume pot three times with the...

I'm trying to install the rails into my bridge pickup on my strat, i've taken everything off and installed everything, and I'm getting no sound out of ANY of the pickups. I connected the black wire to the switcher where the old bridge pickup was wired, then soldered the red and white wires...