Cool rails neck - will it work with a Distortion?

[LP82]

I'm thinking about getting a Cool Rails for the neck on my LTD Lynch guitar. Has anyone tried a CR with a Distortion? It will be used for some soloing but mostly for clean fingerpicked type stuff (think power ballad, lol). If so, what are your impressions, thoughts, etc.?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Artie]

Re: Cool rails neck - will it work with a Distortion?

That could be an interesting combo. I have a Cool Rails (bridge) in one guitar, and a Distortion (neck) in another. I love them both. A CR combined with a DD would probably sound great. Especially if you could split the DD with the CR.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Cool rails neck - will it work with a Distortion?

Dear lord, no! They'll self destruct if put in too close a proximity to one another...

Sorry... it's late, and I'm tired

 

[Xeromus]

Re: Cool rails neck - will it work with a Distortion?

I did in a basswood body guitar and it was the best pickup combo I've ever used.

 

[Rainmaker]

Re: Cool rails neck - will it work with a Distortion?

Yep, got the combo in my HSS. It definately does work well, but theres quite a tonal variation (to me, a good thing).

 

[Travis]

Re: Cool rails neck - will it work with a Distortion?

I had a Distortion/Cool Rails in an old Hamer Californian I sold a little while ago. The two pickups matched up very well. The Cool Rails could go from jazzy clean to bluesy/rock leads to shred solos. I wouldn't say that it did any one thing exceptionally well, but it did everything well. It was definitley a very versatile pickup. For the cleanest of cleans, you might try splitting it or getting used to adjusting volume and tone knobs. For everything else, you won't have much of a problem with it. The Distortion is the best. I can't say enough good things about it.

By the way, I still have a guitar with a Distortion/Cool Rails/Hot Rails set up and that thing is my #1 tone machine. The Cool Rails handles it's duties as a middle pickup as well, matching up nicely with the Distortion and Hot Rails equally.