Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

[zionstrat]

Have been meaning to sing cool rail praises for a couple of weeks-

Did a gig where 75% of my tone was expected to be neck p90, but the rf was horrendous- Apparently new lights hadn't been tested and couldn't kill 60hz to save our lives- changed stage position, engineer tried denoising- everything that killed the noise killed the tone-

So couldn't keep everybody waiting and fell back on my backup guitar that has a cool rails in the neck- CR by itself is much higher gain than I needed, but found a workable tone by spin a spliting and putting it in series with the mid pup.

What surprised me was that I could spin the cool rails down to about 25% before the noise got bad- really amazing because the P90 never had a chance, but the CR only needed 25% of the 2nd coil-

Guessing the narrow coils make the RF area of the CR considerable less than a p90 to start with?

Regardless of why, it's another testimonial about how incredibly flexible the CR is and how it seems to love just about every mod I throw at it.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

Nice! How single-coily or P-90-ish was it with the spin a split?

 

[Artie]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

Nice post. I love Cool Rails. They're one of the great unsung heroes of the Duncan line.

 

[TVFV]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

Going to have to try this mod on the neck. My biggest complaint about the neck is I can't get enough clarity for rhythm work.

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[zionstrat]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

Nice! How single-coily or P-90-ish was it with the spin a split?

In my rig, the full cr is thick and overdrives easily. So spin a split gets you closer to a traditional strat and I open it up for thick leads. Incredible versatility right there..

It has more power than a p90, but its more focused...probably due to the small coils.

That's a great sound in itself, but it wasnt as fat as I wanted fir this gig.

But in series with the center it isnt quacky and plenty fat to emulate a p90.

Keep in mind that I like dark warm neck tones for soloing where others might go for brighter tones off the bridge.

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[zionstrat]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

Going to have to try this mod on the neck. My biggest complaint about the neck is I can't get enough clarity for rhythm work.

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Yes if you spinasplit a cr it gets much clearer for neck rhythm.

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[Benjy_26]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

In my rig, the full cr is thick and overdrives easily. So spin a split gets you closer to a traditional strat and I open it up for thick leads. Incredible versatility right there..

It has more power than a p90, but its more focused...probably due to the small coils.

That's a great sound in itself, but it wasnt as fat as I wanted fir this gig.

But in series with the center it isnt quacky and plenty fat to emulate a p90.

Keep in mind that I like dark warm neck tones for soloing where others might go for brighter tones off the bridge.

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Good info! There isn't a lot of info on the CR online, so it's good to read your thoughts on it.

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Cool rail and spin a split tamed a noisy room

Good info! There isn't a lot of info on the CR online, so it's good to read your thoughts on it.

That's true, so I'll give you one more for the cr... It's the only strat size that we regularly parallel to self... Same idea of turning a power pup into a tamer tone.
Interested in others experiences as well...

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