seymour duncan hot-rodded pickup replacement

Oops, I did it again! No, I didn’t do a Britney. I have re-installed the Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded pickups. After months of missing that tone, I replaced my old pickups with these pups on my Onyx Les Paul copy. And the results, pure tonal bliss. The bridge is really sharp and crisp while the neck pickup is warm and ‘Jazzy’. Incidentally, I found out that I actually had DiMarzio pickups. Interesting. I have attached a video I made during the pickup ’surgery’. Enjoy!

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Guitar World Reviews DiMarzio’s new True Velvet Pickups

Stratocaster single coils have a tone of their own. They are bright and clear. However, the clarity and volume are not even along the fretboard. The DiMarzio True Velvet pickups solve that to make your single coil sound sweet and clear. Guitarworld’s Paul Riario visited Dimarzio to check these pickups up.

NAMM ‘09-Seymour Duncan New Product Offerings

Check out Brett hanging out with Frank Falbo on the New Seymour Duncan products. The triple shot pickup mounting rings, shiny blackouts pickup, P-rails and Tele Hot Rails

 

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Installing P-rails pickups experience

Continuing on the post of from my Youtube Video on installing the pickup, I’m going to share the experience of installing these pickups. Before anything, you will need to look at the wiring diagram of the type of connection you want to do. Plenty of options can be done from here.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/

I’m using

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/support/schematics/2_prails_2v_2t_tspp.jpg

From the diagram in the above link you will need 2x 500k push/pull pots, connector cables and some solder wire. Also you will need to have a soldering iron and basic tools (screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches….) and some experience in soldering. If you haven’t done much soldering, don’t worry because it is as easy as using a glue gun, only you’re sticking metal with metal and its hotter.

You should check the pickups if there are any defects or loose cables. Once you are satisfied,you will need to first remove the strings, then open the pickup and control cavity covers. Next comes the part where you will need to dismantle the connector cables of the pots. Heat up your solder iron and once it is hot enough, touch the tip of the solder to the cable and the pin until the solder becomes loose and you will just need to pull the cable free. When all the connectors are free, you can pull the pickup out from there respective cavities. Repeat for the second pickup. Replace the volume (or tone) knobs with the push/pull knobs.

The next step is to install the P-rails pickups. This is the most difficult part in the process as you will need to thread the cables through a hole the width of a pen and the length is the same as a pen (very long relatively). The default pickups comes with only two conductor cables whereas most new pickups comes with four. I still haven’t found the best way of doing this except pushing the cables with your pliers very, very slowly. This took me a couple of hours.

Once you get those cables through, just solder them as illustrated in the wiring diagram. It is recommended to have a multimeter to check for conductivity but if you don’t, you can install one string, pick it and hope that it sounds on all the coils and humbucker configurations. This may take some time but once it is completed, string up your guitar, pat yourself on the back and jam. This is the most flexible pickup there is and you will only need this guitar for any style of music. Cheers.

For people who would like to have a ready made P-rails guitar, check out the LTD PB-500. Be sure it’s the one with the P-rails as they have others without.

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Replacing to Seymour Duncan P-rails pickups

I’ve finally done it. After replacing my stock pickups to the Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded set, I’ve changed them to P-rails and it was definitely worth it. The humbucker sounds tough but not as sharp as the JB, the P-90 sounds original, like a rowdy kind of tone but the star is the rail tone. It sounds crystal clear and really stratty. Below is an excerpt of how I changed the pickups. Takes quite a bit of work but worth it. I highly recommend it, if you’re not comfortable with soldering, you can always send it to a guitar tech to do it. Now, to shield my guitar.

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Seymour Duncan Factory Tour by Premier Guitar

Hey guys,

I’ve been away for a bit but I did manage to check out some cool guitar videos. This is a factory tour and a lesson on how guitar pickups are made which is just mind blowing. You can make an OK guitar sound awesome with some great pickups. This cheaper than buying new ones, of course and make your guitar, YOURS. Seymour Duncan makes some fine pickups, with some technology added. Check out the red pickups in the video. As always, you can check them out Musicians’Friend , Music123, ZZsounds or Woodwind and Brass . .

How do i get rid of the humbucking noise hum?

For you, electic guitars junkies. As you know I have just replaced my pickups with the Seymour Duncan hot rodded pickups. After bringing it to the studio, there was this big hum noise after I plugged my Les Paul to the Marshall amp. I took the guitar home and after scouring the net, I finally the found the Seymour duncan site and a couple of hits recommended me to solder the ground to the tremolo. This happened to be a loose wire which I did not connect (cos I did not know what was it for ). Now, the noise is far less but since I use the push-pull pot, when it is pressed, there is some noise but pulled the noise disappears. Would appreciate any advice on this.

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Cya