Rails versions of classic pickups?

[Rex_Rocker]

OK, I stand corrected.

I still don't think it's bad that chanels focused on high gain sounds review pickups from a high gain standpoint, though. I still think the crowd that SD are targeting these pickups to is the chugg chugg dudes, mostly. And is that so bad?

Personally, even if I really don't like bridge cleans in general, and even less from a high output pickup, I don't think it's bad that they throw a couple of samples in there. And even if it's not night and day under high gain, I could hear the difference. I don't think it's supposed to be night and day, honestly. Otherwise, they wouldn't be calling the JB Rails a JB.

 

[freefrog]

OK, I stand corrected.

I still don't think it's bad that chanels focused on high gain sounds review pickups from a high gain standpoint, though. I still think the crowd that SD are targeting these pickups to is the chugg chugg dudes, mostly.

Mate, my post was not meant to correct anyone...

I totally agree with you regarding what you said above. The rails series is officially "for modern players", anyway.

My point was just to ramble like the old fart that I am, about the paradox of Bill Lawrence designs and their contemporary variations, initially made by a jazz cat and quickly indexed as metal humbuckers. It was already the case in the 80s, actually (my first personal contact with a Bill Lawrence has been when one of my friends did put a L500 in a chiseled greyburst CBS Strat and has demoed it by playing... chugga chugga things of this era).

 

[Mincer]

I still think there is a market for Rail pickups for the PAF crowd. Not all younger players like chugging all the time, but some like the looks of modern guitars.