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SVR-1b Vintage rails

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1/20/2000 4:07 AM
Bob	SVR-1b Vintage rails Has anyone tried a Seymour Duncan strat pickup: SVR-1b Vintage rails. I have a Strat-type guitar that I love except for the bridge pickup, which I think is too thin sounding and could use a little more output. Thanks for your help, Bob

1/20/2000 5:53 AM

Vintage pickups are thin sounding because the number of coil turns are low. Therefore their impedence is low, and they have a low output. That's not bad, that's the way they are. Try a hotter pickup -- e.g seymour duncan duckbuckers (what a silly name) they are low impendence humbuckers in single coil size. The fact that they are low impedence pickups makes them sound like single coils, but true single coil lovers will probably prefer the thin sounding pickups that you have

1/21/2000 1:59 PM
anonymous	Another question: did any vintage strat fans here compare the Vinatge Rails with Kinman AVn-56 tone-wise??? I regard the Kinmans's tone as non-distinguishable from the originals...but who knows Other item of my interest are: Are the vintage rails of equal output? How well do they buck hum? Maybe better than the Kinmans?

1/23/2000 9:01 AM
Kursad Kurt	vintage rails are not humbucking pickups..

1/23/2000 5:47 PM
Daver	Bob, The Vintage Rails output is on par with a true single coil and tone wise it is similar. I used to have one in a Strat. Not bad, just not great. BTW, the Rails (Cool, Vintage, Hot) are all two side by side coil humbuckers in a single coil size package. Hope this helps. Daver

1/24/2000 12:36 AM
Kursad Kurt	"BTW, the Rails (Cool, Vintage, Hot) are all two side by side coil humbuckers in a single coil size package" Sorry - I have confused them with "Vintage Staggered for Strat". I wonder why one puts the name "Vintage" on a humbucking single coil size pickup anyway..

1/28/2000 5:36 AM

Bob:

    If your strat bridge pickup is of typical vintage design you ought to try one of the backing plates that Lindy Fralin sells. It is similar in principle to the metal plate on a tele bridge, and alters the sound a bit.

    You might also want to check put alternate wirings: the bridge-neck series linkage produces a thicker, muddier tone, not unlike a humbucker. The bridge-neck parallel linkage produces a brighter and sweeter sound (like a tele with both pickups selected). Check out the Sup'rStrat wiring harness on the schematics and articles pages on my site:

http://www.techaccessinc.com/blueguitar/

    I've tried Cool Rails and Hot Rails, and Vintage Stacks, but not Vintage Rails (which I thought were being discontinued- hard to keep all of that straight!) One problem with the rail design on a slanted pickup is that the high and low E-strings may have a lower output because only one of the coils is picking up the signal.

    The single coil sized humbucker may have their place- like for someone who wants the thicker sound of a LP in a guitar that plays like a strat. And Coco Montoya evidently uses one brand or another of twin rail pickups. But I like plain old vintage style single coil pickups; for a ruder sound you might want to check out the various types from Rio Grande.

--Good luck!

Steve Ahola

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