Hi JP,

I have installed P-Rails on one one of my Mexican Strats using five miniswitches to get the series, parallel, P90 and rail pickup options.

Believe me, the triple shot is heaven sent than having to wire those five switches. Another advantage with the triple shot is that you keep the knife pickup selector switch.

We are used to that switch, so no problem but selecting a pickup using a miniswitch is a little odd, so to speak.

So I do recomend that you use the triple shot. It will save you a lot of headache and time.

Thank you for the comments,

Den

I recently bought these pickups but I haven’t installed them yet. I’m looking up wiring diagrams etc. I have thought about getting some Triple shots but it’s more money. I wonder is it possible to get all four sounds from some kind of switch. So single coil, P90, series humbucker and parallel humbucker – I understand that array is what the triple shot offers.

Cheers,
JP

Hi Mike,

Can you switch between the rail single coil and the P90 coil? If so you can always switch it to the P90 coil if you find the rail coil too thin.

Thanks for the comments,

Den

Hi Richard,

Sorry but there is no full-sized humbucker pickup that will sound like a Seymour Duncan Cool Rails Pickup. A Seymour Duncan Cool Rail is a small-sized humbucker, but it is designed to sound like a single-coil pickup.

You can install a full-sized humbucker and split the coils. The best pickup in my opinion for coil splitting is the Seymour Duncan P-Rails pickup.

Any decent full humbucker pickup can be split coiled with a good result but the P-Rails is designed to give a gigging musician a lot of tonal options. The first advantage is that the Rail pickup of the P-Rails pickup is designed to sound like a single-coil when split.

The second advantage is that the P-90 single coil of the P-Rail pickup cannot be found on any full-sized humbucker pickup configuration. I usually do the installation using five microswitches to get all the option. Single coil rail, Single coil P90, Series Humbucker, and Parallel Humbucker.

Now, a Seymour Duncan TS-1 Triple Shot Pickup Mounting Ring for this purpose and it will make your guitar tech’s life much easier. If you have a carved top guitar you have to use the Seymour Duncan TS-2 Triple Shot Pickup Mounting Ring.

The sound variations of the P-Rail are way much better than what you can get from a Cool Rail pickup in my opinion.

Thanks for the comments,

Den

Hi Utdam,

P-rails pickup set is the answer to a lot guitar players out there that needs a lot of different tones on their guitars.

Thanks for the comments,

Den

Looks like these pickup set is very suitable for guitar players who’s doing band covers. A P-90 tone, a strat tone and a humbucker all in one pickup. Wow! Gotta tell my band mates about these impressive pickup set. Thanks for this new information which I am sure would be helpful to me and to them.

Sincerely,

Utdam

Hi Steve,

These pickups would surely bring that SG Style guitar back to life. Seymour Duncan makes top notch pickups. You can install this pair in the bridge and neck position with no problem. Just have a technician wire it so you can have all the three sounds.

Thanks for the comments,

Den

It has three pickups in it now not sure how it all works electronically but maybe a couple of these would be a good addition?