Seymour Duncan doesn't have a diagram for a single bridge p-rails. Would anyone suggest wiring this with a 3-way toggle as shown in all the other diagrams or is there a better, less-invasive way? I'm not a fan of push-pulls because in a live situation, I inevitably accidently push it back in.
P-rails wiring for HSS strat
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frankfalbo
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Re: P-rails wiring for HSS strat
Is it a Strat with a pickguard? For those I've been using a master volume, master tone, and putting the toggle in the hole for one of the tone knobs.
Is it a Strat with a pickguard? For those I've been using a master volume, master tone, and putting the toggle in the hole for one of the tone knobs.
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Re: P-rails wiring for HSS strat
Is it just me or is it time for a P-Rails room
Is it just me or is it time for a P-Rails room
DrumsNGuitar
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Re: P-rails wiring for HSS strat
Drop the second tone and use the spot for a toggle - interesting idea!
Comments, questions, suggestions welcome. I have a 48th St. Fat Strat HSS and decided to get some HB single coil replacement pups for mid & neck (I mostly play heavy rock with an occasional foray into a quiet pseudo-acoustic finger-picking or strumming interlude. The guitar is run through a POD X3 straight into the recording interface and the noise from the stock pups was driving me nuts)
Acquired a JB Jr and a DM Pro-Track. Why those? They sounded like a good idea when looking through the online Music123 catalog.
Then I went nuts and decided since I was opening up the guitar anyway, may as well replace the bridge HB. Enter P-rails.
Now I have a wiring dilemma with all these new buckers. When the idea occurred, I mostly cared about splitting the P-Rail between HB, P-90, and rail. But now I have series/parallel options too. Given my playing "style" should I care about series/parallel on the P-Rail?
Do I really care about series/parallel in the neck & middle positions?
So, the P-Rail splitting issue: Looking through this forum, another user mentioned a "blender" style pot* Would such a pot be useful to switch between HB, P-90 and rail settings? would the P-Rail handle being 60% P-90 and 40% Rail (or some other combination)?
Or is a DPDT on/off/on or on/on/on located in the second tone hole a better/simpler option?
The series/parallel issue: Let's say I cared about switching between series and parallel. Is there a simple way to do all three pups? The sense I'm getting from this forum appears to be push-pull pots or a Super Switch.
Your thoughts?
* http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers/1/Blend_Pots/Details.html#details
Drop the second tone and use the spot for a toggle - interesting idea!
Comments, questions, suggestions welcome. I have a 48th St. Fat Strat HSS and decided to get some HB single coil replacement pups for mid & neck (I mostly play heavy rock with an occasional foray into a quiet pseudo-acoustic finger-picking or strumming interlude. The guitar is run through a POD X3 straight into the recording interface and the noise from the stock pups was driving me nuts)
Acquired a JB Jr and a DM Pro-Track. Why those? They sounded like a good idea when looking through the online Music123 catalog.
Then I went nuts and decided since I was opening up the guitar anyway, may as well replace the bridge HB. Enter P-rails.
Now I have a wiring dilemma with all these new buckers. When the idea occurred, I mostly cared about splitting the P-Rail between HB, P-90, and rail. But now I have series/parallel options too. Given my playing "style" should I care about series/parallel on the P-Rail?
Do I really care about series/parallel in the neck & middle positions?
So, the P-Rail splitting issue: Looking through this forum, another user mentioned a "blender" style pot* Would such a pot be useful to switch between HB, P-90 and rail settings? would the P-Rail handle being 60% P-90 and 40% Rail (or some other combination)?
Or is a DPDT on/off/on or on/on/on located in the second tone hole a better/simpler option?
The series/parallel issue: Let's say I cared about switching between series and parallel. Is there a simple way to do all three pups? The sense I'm getting from this forum appears to be push-pull pots or a Super Switch.
Your thoughts?
* http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers/1/Blend_Pots/Details.html#details
Re: P-rails wiring for HSS strat
Hermetico graciously drew me a diagram in this thread, ( https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=161054 ), after I tried to figure it out myself and failed horribly.
Take a look- lots of tone options for HSS guitars. 2 push/pull pots and a toggle. 19 sound options available if I figure correctly...
O:yo:
Hermetico graciously drew me a diagram in this thread, ( https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=161054 ), after I tried to figure it out myself and failed horribly.
Take a look- lots of tone options for HSS guitars. 2 push/pull pots and a toggle. 19 sound options available if I figure correctly...
O:yo:
DrumsNGuitar
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Re: P-rails wiring for HSS strat
After consulting with Eric at Guitar Doctor in Whitman, MA, I ended up keeping things simple. He wired everything in series and I decided I didn't need to worry about series/parallel switching at this time. JB Jr in neck; swapped for a FastTrack in middle, and the P-Rail in bridge. The tone was converted to a master tone, and the 3 way switch for Rail/P-90/Humbucker was placed in the old second tone hole. He did add a tone-saver jumper on the volume pot. Sounds pretty good and it's nice to have the added tonal options that the P-Rail provides. As I run it through its paces, will advise if any issues crop up.
After consulting with Eric at Guitar Doctor in Whitman, MA, I ended up keeping things simple. He wired everything in series and I decided I didn't need to worry about series/parallel switching at this time. JB Jr in neck; swapped for a FastTrack in middle, and the P-Rail in bridge. The tone was converted to a master tone, and the 3 way switch for Rail/P-90/Humbucker was placed in the old second tone hole. He did add a tone-saver jumper on the volume pot. Sounds pretty good and it's nice to have the added tonal options that the P-Rail provides. As I run it through its paces, will advise if any issues crop up.
