railsramiro
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hello all. finally i have gotten my hot rails wired the way i want. it only took 4 months to do( 4 kids,not alot of spare time:18
but it was worth it. and all i can say is thank you semour duncan for having a wiring digrm. web site for us. gotta say though that little blue peice of paper(that came w/pickup) with the very hard to understand crap didn't help one bit. but after a few days of reseach and i got what i was looking for. any body with a strat looking for killer tone using hot rails i suggest useing the tone control digrm. i have the rails in back and one orgnl. fender in the neck ( no need for the mid,sounds to much like a fender stil with it) and once i decided to grow a spine and try it on my own,wow is all i can say. the trick is get a second switch to use for the fender front neck pickup(i tried the mid,not so good),wire the out put (main power side)of second switch to the mid postion on a five way switch,then the other side of second switch to the hot side of your neck p/up. then on the tone side of the 5 way and a jumper wire to the open treminal to the treminal right next to it. then take the black wire from your hot rail and wire it to the bridge treminal on the 5 way and take the red and white wires and put them together and your done. i used a 3 way switch for my second because i originaly planed to be able to split the hot rails them selves but got depressed cause i couldn't figure it out. i do plan to change this to a 2 way, but not right now. i should say that you will have one postion on your 5 way that wont do any thing and if you turn of the second switch there will be 3 postions that wont do much. the new sounds that u can come up with is a lot more than what you can have if you just install one hot rail in the strait forward way. i kept the one fender p/up cause i like the sound, but they have no real life when it comes to metal. right now i'm playing threw a old tube amp( with no second channel or much in the way of distortion, pretty much a clean amp) , but the cab comes with a sub,mid and tweet ( no this is not a stero or stero speaker) that are made by celestion, i do think the cab was from a pa system but the head deffintly says guitar on it ( cant tell who made it, it was in ruff shape when i got it and it turned on so i took it home and recovered it not really careing at the time who made it) but un till now i had no idea the sub could even get that low. i also use the vox ampleg (metal) a couple of adaptors and you can play threw any amop and get killer distotion for only 30 dollars. i know what your thinkin,but i did mention that i have 4 kids right. so i cant really afford a real good pedal right now. but playin into the amplug then into my old tube amp. you couldn't tell the differnce between it or a soldano and a marshel cab. ( it did take about a day of tweekin to get adjustments just right) but now i've almost got to much bottem end, but it's just right for me. i love tone and i now i really love my hot rails. i was real close to beggin my wife if i could buy a new pick up with better tone but with the same killer high output and attack,but now i don't have to. now i can beg for a vow (jimmy) wah and it's a ll goood.
but it was worth it. and all i can say is thank you semour duncan for having a wiring digrm. web site for us. gotta say though that little blue peice of paper(that came w/pickup) with the very hard to understand crap didn't help one bit. but after a few days of reseach and i got what i was looking for. any body with a strat looking for killer tone using hot rails i suggest useing the tone control digrm. i have the rails in back and one orgnl. fender in the neck ( no need for the mid,sounds to much like a fender stil with it) and once i decided to grow a spine and try it on my own,wow is all i can say. the trick is get a second switch to use for the fender front neck pickup(i tried the mid,not so good),wire the out put (main power side)of second switch to the mid postion on a five way switch,then the other side of second switch to the hot side of your neck p/up. then on the tone side of the 5 way and a jumper wire to the open treminal to the treminal right next to it. then take the black wire from your hot rail and wire it to the bridge treminal on the 5 way and take the red and white wires and put them together and your done. i used a 3 way switch for my second because i originaly planed to be able to split the hot rails them selves but got depressed cause i couldn't figure it out. i do plan to change this to a 2 way, but not right now. i should say that you will have one postion on your 5 way that wont do any thing and if you turn of the second switch there will be 3 postions that wont do much. the new sounds that u can come up with is a lot more than what you can have if you just install one hot rail in the strait forward way. i kept the one fender p/up cause i like the sound, but they have no real life when it comes to metal. right now i'm playing threw a old tube amp( with no second channel or much in the way of distortion, pretty much a clean amp) , but the cab comes with a sub,mid and tweet ( no this is not a stero or stero speaker) that are made by celestion, i do think the cab was from a pa system but the head deffintly says guitar on it ( cant tell who made it, it was in ruff shape when i got it and it turned on so i took it home and recovered it not really careing at the time who made it) but un till now i had no idea the sub could even get that low. i also use the vox ampleg (metal) a couple of adaptors and you can play threw any amop and get killer distotion for only 30 dollars. i know what your thinkin,but i did mention that i have 4 kids right. so i cant really afford a real good pedal right now. but playin into the amplug then into my old tube amp. you couldn't tell the differnce between it or a soldano and a marshel cab. ( it did take about a day of tweekin to get adjustments just right) but now i've almost got to much bottem end, but it's just right for me. i love tone and i now i really love my hot rails. i was real close to beggin my wife if i could buy a new pick up with better tone but with the same killer high output and attack,but now i don't have to. now i can beg for a vow (jimmy) wah and it's a ll goood.
your enthusiasm is appreciated, and admirable.
