Rex_Rocker
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Yeah... I still wished they would've called it anything else, and then just reference the JB in the blurb. But hey, it's their pickup.
Introducing the Rail Series...
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It is still based on the JB, and for marketing purposes, it makes more sense to market a variation on their most famous pickup vs an entirely new name.
Rex_Rocker
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I get it. I hate to be negative, especially about a pickup which I am interested in trying sometime. It just kinda rubs me the wrong way, I suppose. They've put out pickups which are clearly based off other pickups with some tweaks and named them something inventive. But yeah, I suppose marketing this time around. No biggie.
I mean fair.
But that mid-range spike IS the JB thing.
It'd be like buying a 5150 and complaining that it has too much gain. Or buying a Gibson and complaining that the headstock falls off.
I'd be real curious to hear that "JB Rails" with an A5 magnet.
Rex_Rocker
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Well, they did end up with a controversial pickup, FWIW. :laughing:
Chistopher
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I feel Seymour Duncan shouldn't have wasted the JB Rails name on some dumb flag ship pickup, should have saved it for the signature Joe Bonamassa Rails pickup
larryguitar
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We're essentially the corner of the internet with the densest pack of pickup nerds, so I get the discussion of spec's-I do it, too.
But with all the variables that go into a pickup, and SD's charting and understanding of them over decades of making pickups, I'd be willing to be they could make five pickups with different wire, winds and other specs that basically sound like a JB. Think of it as a recipe; there's more than one way to get every flavor, and I think at this point SD knows all the ingredients' potentials inside-out.
Larry
But with all the variables that go into a pickup, and SD's charting and understanding of them over decades of making pickups, I'd be willing to be they could make five pickups with different wire, winds and other specs that basically sound like a JB. Think of it as a recipe; there's more than one way to get every flavor, and I think at this point SD knows all the ingredients' potentials inside-out.
Larry
RanchManSandy
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idk the clips in that video basically sounded like a JB to me. Better, even, with the upper mid spike smoothed out a bit.
does anyone know what the radius of the rails is? I feel like my very real and diagnosed ocd wouldn't let me NOT have a bridge and fretboard match them
does anyone know what the radius of the rails is? I feel like my very real and diagnosed ocd wouldn't let me NOT have a bridge and fretboard match them
Rex_Rocker
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Yeah, I'm just being silly, honestly. I just wished it would've gotten a cool name like the Nazgul and the Black Winter have.
Like, they could've called the Nazgul Rails rather Khamul or Witch King or Fell Beast or something more fun.
Like, they could've called the Nazgul Rails rather Khamul or Witch King or Fell Beast or something more fun.
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I'd vote for 'Level 24 Frost Wizard'.
Rex_Rocker
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I remember seeing someone ordered a CS Nazgul once with a gold cover and the inscriptions that are on the One ring. That was amazing.
RanchManSandy
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ive decided to wait on the rails series until they do a Pegasus or black winter model. and srsly what is that rails radius????
Apart from the rail itself being different, the voicing of these new Rail pickups is different than the Dimebucker. Different winds and magnet, too.
Mr. Lime
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16.5k vs 18,6k - I guess 43AWG?
Bill lawrence used ceramic magnets until AlNiCo got cheaper. The Wilde pickups are with AlNiCo5 now. They compansate with different windings therefore.
Where's the difference in the rails? Material? Length?
Is the magnet switchable like in the original JB to make a Distortion "light" out of it?
Bill lawrence used ceramic magnets until AlNiCo got cheaper. The Wilde pickups are with AlNiCo5 now. They compansate with different windings therefore.
Where's the difference in the rails? Material? Length?
Is the magnet switchable like in the original JB to make a Distortion "light" out of it?
