Clicky

View post (rail pickups, what are they?)

View thread

Fret spider
Registered User
Joined: 12/14/05
Posts: 558
Fret spider
Registered User
Joined: 12/14/05
Posts: 558
07/06/2006 6:02 pm
ok so lets forget about the smileys and picture disagreement and get back to the thread plz :D .

so far the useful information, excluding pictures is

Originally Posted by: rockonn91they function under high gain much better.

cool things about them, you can bend and never lose the note, because the rail picks up the vibrations everywhere.

dual ones, it looks like the humbuckers with two single coils together, with each having one rail on it. when in humbucking mode, they function like a normal humbucker. when switched to single coil, they function like a normal single coil. (no hum reduction) as for quad, they look the same, but have two rails on each half of the pickup. so even if they're switched to single coil mode, they still will have a humbucking effect.

sometimes thats desireable (i.e. metal) sometimes not. (blues, etc.)



does anyone know anything else about them. do they, i dunno, give more midrange, or more deffined treble. or are these things particular to the pickup rather than the fact the pickups are rails.

also are they only used in high gain aplications? can they be made lower gain for blues or sumthin.

lastly has anyone got any sound clips.

any info would be apreciated :o