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Re: HotRails fullsized??? it is a Dean USA Rik Emmett V. The guitar next to it is a Warmoth Soloist I built back in the 80's. It has a first year production Hotrails pickup that I have loved so much all these years. I'm going to do some sound samples and compare the two. I know they won't sound...

Re: HotRails fullsized??? Thanks for helping me. I don't know if I'm doing this is the right way but this is how I measured it and the reading was this. Is my voltmeter set correctly? Is this a correct reading?

Re: HotRails fullsized??? Thanks for chiming in. I have taped back the red and white and still the same results. (The first photo was to show that they are connected together.) this is frustrating, I've wired several SD pickups this way before and never had this problem. Should the red and...

Re: HotRails fullsized??? well I got my CS Hotrails pickup today and wired it up and this is what I get…….WTF????? here is a picture of the wireing, as straight forward as you can get , red & white wires soldered together, green and bare to pot ground and black to hot. 1 volume thats it….Why...

Re: HotRails fullsized??? That is good to hear. The thing I love about the hotrails so much is for as high output and massive sustain that it has, it really isn't that distorted, and it cleans and fattens up when turned down.I have had a hotrails pickup in my custom warmoth strat since 1983 and...

what full size humbucker would sound most like the HotRails??? If there is even one that does. Passive only.

I just installed the Blackout Modular preamp and now I have serious hum/buzz. I can walk around the room and find one certain spot where it is not too bad but the hum is still present. Any where else in the room and the Hum/Buzz is real bad...I have checked ,checked and checked again all the...