anyone use the Seymour Duncan Cool Rails?

[dstroud]

I had a hot rails in one of my strats and was really digging it. Just for kicks I put a Cool Rails in the Bridge. Man I loved that pickup in the bridge!!! Way cleaner than the Hot Rails, super articulate, clean, but had some kick at the same time. gonna put those in the bridge of all my strats. Was also wondering how the GFS Lil Killer 10K compared as well.

 

[blackba]

Never tried the cool rails, but I have had a hot rails in my mim strat for a long time. A while back I added a push pull pot to change from series to parallel wiring. I find I use parallel often, you should try it on the cool rails.

Btw, on the hot rails, tried it split first and it sounded terrible split.

 

[JTyson]

I had one in my strat for nearly 5 years, it was actually better than I expected (I hate stock strat bridge pups) Had decent usable output with no noise and still sounded more like a single coil than a stacked humbucker. I moved it to the middle position when I stuck a humbucker in the bridge and I like it even better there
Dont hear much about these things but they are pretty solid performers, they clean up nicely and still have some teeth

 

[cardinal]

I have a Cool Rails 7 string at the bridge of one of my guitars. I like it, except that it seems to struggle with hearing the low B and the high e strings. I'm not sure if it's just me imagining it or not, but the other strings seem louder. I think I'd like the pickup better if the rails didn't have a radius.

 

[CaseyCor]

I have a Cool Rails 7 string at the bridge of one of my guitars. I like it, except that it seems to struggle with hearing the low B and the high e strings. I'm not sure if it's just me imagining it or not, but the other strings seem louder. I think I'd like the pickup better if the rails didn't have a radius.

Have you tried raising the pickup height? That might help. Does the rail have a curvature to it?

 

[cardinal]

Yeah I have it pretty high. The rails do have a radius (curvature) which is much tighter (rounder) than the fretboard radius. The rails will always be closer to the middle strings than the strings on the end no matter how high I raise it up.