Who’s it for? Seymour Duncan Hot Rails Telecaster Bridge Pick up
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Let’s explore why anyone would want to install a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup in a Telecaster. The short answer is… “it depends”. Are you chasing high-gain tones, looking to eliminate single-coil hum, or just wanting to push your Telecaster into territory not traditionally thought of with a Telecater? Then you might want one of these. . On the flip side, this mod might not be the best choice for traditionalists or those seeking the classic Tele twang.
I’ll give you my thoughts and then we’ll do a quick demo of the pickup to showcase its sounds in various styles—clean, overdriven, and high-gain—so you can decide if the Hot Rails is right for you.
So if you came here to crap on the hot rail because it isn’t a traditional sound, or crap on me because you love it, well you’re both in luck!!
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00:00 – Intro
00:24 – Why would want a Hot Rail
01:39 – The balance between the Neck and Bridge
02:28 – Clean
04:16 – with Overdrive
05:39 – RAT style distortion
06:46 – Rat boosted with a Tumnus (Klon)
07:56 – In Drop C for the chugs
08:35 – Final Thoughts and thanks!
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So I 100% mis-spoke in the video. The push/pull switch actually splits the coils, not tap. My bad ya'll!!
Depends on what you prefer, really. I'm a hard rocker/metalhead and I love a Tele but was looking for more "crunch" and less "twang." I tried a DiMarzio Chopper T for years but it never got me quite where I wanted to be. I tried a Dragonfire next and it was a little better but still lacked punch for my tastes. This pickup got me where I wamted to be.
I might recommend the Chopper T if you want a little more "oomph" but still like more of a "classic" Tele sound, though. There's nothing wrong with a Chopper T, it just didn't give me exactly what I was looking for.
Hey man, did u change the pot to 500k??
Ok,, you're a good player but I feel that those pickups work great in thee hands of a Metal guitarist, I have those pickups in my Tele and it screams
Did you change the pot and cap? That's key.
I've started using them on Melobars and they are perfect for steel slide
Who needs a tele with a bridge humbucker pu if you have a Stingray guitar with dual humbucker hanging on the wall behind you!!!!!
Put that tele twang back!!!’
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Dude you are killing me. That is one of the finest pickups ever designed. A Duncan masterpiece. Every sound that came out of it was fantastic to me. So much tone and headroom. Use your volume knob. You got the sound of ten guitars in one and all good.
Try lowering it a bit.?
Since everyone can learn, and I could be dead wrong, PLEASE change out the pickup and shoot the vid again. What do you say. Bet you put that Hotrails back in. Sounds great! Also I bet it smokes that other guitar. Can't beat a hot Tele!
Nvd
Mike Stern has this in the bridge—his tone is tough to beat
For me it sounds the rails moddy something is missing
I just purchased a squier telecaster with a neck humbucker and I was shocked by the overall quality of the instrument. I recently had a JB installed in the neck, along with a QP in the bridge, and the JB actually overpowers the QP in a mix. I have a Wilde Bill Lawrence Noiseless Tele bridge I might try next, but I wouldnt be surprised if the JB overpowers that as well. I am now considering the Hot Rails to go with the JB, which still cuts like a razor, even in the neck position!
Are you actually tapping the coil halfway through the wind? Or are you splitting the coil into a single coil? There’s a difference.
This actually sounds way, way better than I expected. You can use the coil tap to have the "balanced" or traditional tele sound. The reality is that the best 20 selling "amps" are modellers and anyone installing a hot rails in a tele is probably not going to be using a 1 channel tube amp. So, this gives a modeller player exactly what is needed- a tele in split coil mode, and an option to go full high gain if required.
Joe strummer would have appreciated! I bought them and I’m about to the exact same thing (I wanted to ask you one or two questions about the pots and the 3 way switch if your available… I’m kind of anxious to do a mess with my soldering iron). Great sound!
This answers a question I’ve had: to swap a Hot Rails into another Tele, or build a Tele routed for a Tele neck pickup and a full bridge humbucker? I think I can get away with just using a Hot Rails rather than dealing with custom routing.
Buy a katana and use the humbucker to single coil effect and you get a very nice single coil high gain sound from your hot rails.
i tried that same config for leads with hot rails in bridge.. but ended up going to bluesboy style tele with sd 59 in neck and dimarzio tone zone in bridge.. that is my fav set up. hot rails is way too dramatic difference and never mixed with neck and pedal settings so transitions were too wild. NOW rails are PERFECT for maybe a middle position in strat like billy corgan and his chopper in mid position… then i actually use the mid pickup in a strat lol
humbucker with 250k pots is really dark. 500k or 1m might open it up to more usable tones. but then will be too bright for the coil split (not a coil tap, a coil tap is a different thing).
I don't have a tele, yet, but you convinced me to coil tap my bridge hotrail in my strat.
your kid drew an awesome horseshoe crab.
The Teli is a great guitar both body and neck wise. I have a good time swapping picks to convert mine from a lowly country guitar into a fire breathing monster. Good news is if I feel like reverting back to original it only about a 45 minute task. Best of both worlds.
Put one in my fender tele with 500k pots a few months ago and it was such a mistake. It’s just sounds boxy and middy
I keep coming back to wanting to try these out for C tuning in a wide variety of metal/rock styles, but I'm worried they'll be too muddy. I definitely appreciate clarity and a tight low-end. Do you think these could still pull that off with some EQ?
I've tried the Hot Rails in both a Tele and a Strat and they are way too hot and muddy for my taste. Even when split to single coil, I still don't like them. I've also had a Strat with a Little '59 in the neck, which sounded a lot better, for my taste/needs.
The 'tapping' made me smile, I have never been able to learn it.
The bridge having a lot more output sure is annoying in front of a clean amp but it can be quite useful when you're playing into something like a JCM 800
a frankie in a tele !! thats what i want
Weird. You tune to the same frequency as my window fan. See, I've got this fan running to filter air, and it hums 60 cycle AC power. It's Impossible for me to keep the guitar tuned to 440, cause the fan keeps telling my ear I'm out of tune, so little by little I find myself tuning to the fan again. So now I just tune to the fan. Turns out it sounds more natural anyhow.
I'm guessing you have a window fan.
I put a set of the tele hot rails in a build that I did with a series parallel pot in the bridge. I didn’t really want the twangy tele sound so much but I was pleasantly surprised how it sounds in single coil mode. I would agree that you should really do the set rather than just swapping the bridge.
I’ve been wanting to put one in a tele for years. I love the one I put in my strat
Thanks for this video, Adam. Another thing comes to my mind when installing a Humbucker type in a Tele is with the stock pots (most likely 250K) it will sound a little dull, with the RAT and Tumnus engaged I don't think that's a big problem, but for cleaner parts it's losing too much clarity, if you change the pot to a 500K the neck pickup will lose its sound. I found out that if you still want to use the stock pots, the Dimarzio Chopper T (like Richie Kotzen uses) works very well with the 250K pots.