Looking for pickups to handle a variety of musical genres.

[PRSfan nym 1985]

Re: Looking for pickups to handle a variety of musical genres.

I'd like to try a 59/jazz hybrid neck with a 59/custom hybrid bridge w/4 conductor hookup and antiquity treatment

 

[orpheo]

Re: Looking for pickups to handle a variety of musical genres.

the post above me is the one I'd go for. for ANY style. use your tonepot to roll off the highs for your smooth, singing lead ala slash, open it up for that raunchy lead ala page or bonamassa (or just a touch closed for bonamassa), back off the gain to go into Robben Ford territory (even on a Marshall you can get that singing thing, at least, on my '74 plexi!). for the bridge, you got that balls to the walls ROCK thing going on if you go to your marshall on 10. it won't sizzle, it will roar, scream and sing, depending on your volumepot, tonepot and picking technique.

best pickupset ever.

the Prails... I used to like 'm: all in one. but now I'm on the backleash. I don't like them anymore. Too much the same tones, same variation on a them if you work the coils. some tones are just not usable. I'd rather have 3 basic tones with my guitar and work it with the pots and switch guitars between songs (i always use 3 guitars, at least, in a set, they can all cover eachother's grounds, but each excels in their own right) than one do-all can-all guitar. It just doesn't work for me.

 

[PRSfan nym 1985]

Re: Looking for pickups to handle a variety of musical genres.

I still like the P rails but I have two other guitars one is a custom tele (fralin p'ups: 2% over in the neck, vintage hot strat in the middle, blues special bridge) and the other is a semi-hollow LP style (fralin pure paf set). So when I want a good single coil tone I play my tele and when I have the humbucker bug I play the LP.

I mainly got the P-Rails to have a cream covered P90 in a humbucker slot vs the gold/nickel phat cats. The P90 tone with the P-rails is second to none other than Fralin, Lollar, or Antiquity. But there are some other useable tones with the P-Rails I like the Parallel mode and the rail mode with neck and bridge together is to die for. For high gain modern style stuff the series mode is great.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Looking for pickups to handle a variety of musical genres.

Didn't you have to do some mag swapping to get them dialed in?

Yes. I have a regular P-Rail in the neck and a P-Rail Hot in the bridge.

The P-Rail Hot is mounted with the rail next to the bridge with an UOA5 mag next to the Rail and an A5 next to the P-90. The stock A8/A8 mags were way over the top on this pup, but with these mags it works great in the bridge and I can get some of the nicest cleans ever, from rich and mellow to bright and twangy to thick and bassy.

The regular P-Rail is A5/A5 and is in the neck with the Rail toward the bridge as well.

These sound amazing in my Schecter C1 Hellraiser and is now my #1 guitar. Extremely versatile and sounds amazing for anything I want to play...Classic rock, soft-hard rock, blues, country, jazz, and yes, even some metal.

I admit that I use the P-90, both in the neck and bridge, most of the time (about 90%) because it sounds soooooo good. I have a couple GFS Mean 90's (which I love) and a couple Gibson P-90's, but the P-90 in the P-Rails is my favorite by a long shot. I like it better than the '59, Pearly, Demon, any of the Customs (including the C8), Dirty Fingers, Classic '57, any of the Burstbuckers, etc. Don't get me wrong...I really like all of these other pups, but this P-90 in the P-Rail Hot with A5/UOA5 is the best by far.

 

[PRSfan nym 1985]

Re: Looking for pickups to handle a variety of musical genres.

Yes. I have a regular P-Rail in the neck and a P-Rail Hot in the bridge.

The P-Rail Hot is mounted with the rail next to the bridge with an UOA5 mag next to the Rail and an A5 next to the P-90. The stock A8/A8 mags were way over the top on this pup, but with these mags it works great in the bridge and I can get some of the nicest cleans ever, from rich and mellow to bright and twangy to thick and bassy.

The regular P-Rail is A5/A5 and is in the neck with the Rail toward the bridge as well.

These sound amazing in my Schecter C1 Hellraiser and is now my #1 guitar. Extremely versatile and sounds amazing for anything I want to play...Classic rock, soft-hard rock, blues, country, jazz, and yes, even some metal.

I admit that I use the P-90, both in the neck and bridge, most of the time (about 90%) because it sounds soooooo good. I have a couple GFS Mean 90's (which I love) and a couple Gibson P-90's, but the P-90 in the P-Rails is my favorite by a long shot. I like it better than the '59, Pearly, Demon, any of the Customs (including the C8), Dirty Fingers, Classic '57, any of the Burstbuckers, etc. Don't get me wrong...I really like all of these other pups, but this P-90 in the P-Rail Hot with A5/UOA5 is the best by far.

could you walk me through a mag swap in a p-rail I'm a noob to the swapping? What you did sounds like what I'd like to do.