tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

[alashredder]

I'm looking for a humbucker/high output/high gain tone and I've been looking at these 2 pickups as I don't want to route my tele bridge for a humbucker as its too much of a headache to do so. In the description, the hot rails is supposed to be a higher output version of the little 59, yet in the tone chart it reads as the little 59 having the high output and the hot rails a step lower. Any comments on this?

 

[EEF13]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

The Hot Rails is way hotter. I have one in my Tele and it kicks ass for metal and hard rock.

 

[saladin]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

^Yup! The Tele bridge Hot Rails is a great metal pickup, beefy but cuts thru any mix + I find (due to the high output) they are very responsive to volume and tone control manipulations. I never had a problem getting trad sounding Tele tones by lowering the volume....hmmmmm, now you got me wanting one again.

 

[alashredder]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

Sweet! I'm planning on doing a few drop tunings and this pickup sounds like it won't muddy up in the low end. So I take it that this has absolutely no twang to it and has that take no prisoners tone. I was wondering if I need to change both 250k vol and tone pots to 500k? I don't use the tone knob alot, so would changing just the vol pot to 500k be sufficient enough? Thanks!!!

 

[loudriver23]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

I used to have a lil59 in my tele and by no means was it a hot pickup. Since you want to do metal/hard rock I'd go with the hot rails.
Now the Lil59 It did sound great, far better than the JBJr I had in my strat.

 

[Hagbard Celine]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

+1 on the Hot Rails. I wired it with a series/parallel push/pull pot to reduce the oomph on demand and paired it with a '59 neck.

 

[cakire82]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

+1 Hot Rails. I have STHR b/n in my tele with coil tap on both. It is very versatile. It is great for all types of rock and metal.

+1 on the Hot Rails. I wired it with a series/parallel push/pull pot to reduce the oomph on demand and paired it with a '59 neck.

 

[EEF13]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

Sweet! I'm planning on doing a few drop tunings and this pickup sounds like it won't muddy up in the low end. So I take it that this has absolutely no twang to it and has that take no prisoners tone. I was wondering if I need to change both 250k vol and tone pots to 500k? I don't use the tone knob alot, so would changing just the vol pot to 500k be sufficient enough? Thanks!!!

I use a 500k

 

[alashredder]

Re: tele hot rails vs. tele little 59 for metal?

Alright, thanks guys. You've totally made my decision. Will metalize my tele in a month or 2. Thanks again!