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.

 

[GilmourD]

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.

I mean... I'm an old dude that likes modern progressive djenty stuff, so I'm probably an outlier, but rails have been a thing for other styles, too. Look at the Bardens that Danny Gatton used or the Super'Tron in the neck Chet Atkins' later Gretsches,

 

[Mincer]

I mean... I'm an old dude that likes modern progressive djenty stuff, so I'm probably an outlier, but rails have been a thing for other styles, too. Look at the Bardens that Danny Gatton used or the Super'Tron in the neck Chet Atkins' later Gretsches,

oh sure, and Bill Lawrence has been doing it for a long time, too.