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The Seymour Duncan Hot Rail T-Style is a humbucker in single coil format for the Tele bridge position with adjacent coils. It has more output than most of its competitors. Fat sound and sustain profusion makes it the right choice, if you want the sound to be powerful. Preferably use the Strat bridge position, but of course you can also bring other sounds to roar.
Humbucker in single coil format
Ideal 50's Pickup with more Output and rich Sustain
Colour: Black
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The Seymour Duncan STHR-1B is a single-coil-sized humbucker usable on the bridge position of a Telecaster guitar. As the average Telecaster relies on their twang and single-coil-sound, putting this one in will have a huge impact on what you are used to.
I use this pickup in a Fender Baja Tele. The main intention was to fatten up the rhythm sounds to be more broad and in the mid/bass tonality (imagine some stoner rock sound). For this intention, the pickus is totally fitting. You can make your Tele sound more like a Junior Paula with lots of gain and a fat, kind of muffled sound (compared to the Fender single coils). When active together with the neck PU, the Seymour Duncan tends to dominate the sound and kill the sparkly treble of the neck PU. Also you won't get any noticeable twang feel out of it (at least in higher gain).
The pickups itself are of high quality and seem very well fabricated.
What you can expect is a fat sound you wouldn't have imagend possible out of a Tele.
What you shouldn't expect is the definition you had before (if your tele had decent pickups), in higher gain it tends to be muffled.
The Seymour Duncan STHR-1B is a single-coil-sized humbucker usable on the bridge position of a Telecaster guitar. As the average Telecaster relies on their twang and single-coil-sound, putting this one in will have a huge impact on what you are used to.
I use this pickup in a Fender Baja Tele. The main intention was to fatten up the rhythm sounds to be more broad
The Seymour Duncan STHR-1B is a single-coil-sized humbucker usable on the bridge position of a Telecaster guitar. As the average Telecaster relies on their twang and single-coil-sound, putting this one in will have a huge impact on what you are used to.
I use this pickup in a Fender Baja Tele. The main intention was to fatten up the rhythm sounds to be more broad and in the mid/bass tonality (imagine some stoner rock sound). For this intention, the pickus is totally fitting. You can make your Tele sound more like a Junior Paula with lots of gain and a fat, kind of muffled sound (compared to the Fender single coils). When active together with the neck PU, the Seymour Duncan tends to dominate the sound and kill the sparkly treble of the neck PU. Also you won't get any noticeable twang feel out of it (at least in higher gain).
The pickups itself are of high quality and seem very well fabricated.
What you can expect is a fat sound you wouldn't have imagend possible out of a Tele.
What you shouldn't expect is the definition you had before (if your tele had decent pickups), in higher gain it tends to be muffled.
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Kick Ass Pickup!
Grogser 31.12.2020
If you need a little beef in your life, and let's face it, who doesn't? Then the Hot Rails is the perfect pickup to end your single coil nightmares. i boosted my Tele with this monster and have not regretted it for one day, hefty low-end and crystal clear high's make for a killer tone. Lead tone can be a little harsh but if you use and overdrive or booster at all t shape your lead tone this could help. Highly recommended.
If you need a little beef in your life, and let's face it, who doesn't? Then the Hot Rails is the perfect pickup to end your single coil nightmares. i boosted my Tele with this monster and have not regretted it for one day, hefty low-end and crystal clear high's make for a killer tone. Lead tone can be a little harsh but if you use and overdrive or booster at all t
If you need a little beef in your life, and let's face it, who doesn't? Then the Hot Rails is the perfect pickup to end your single coil nightmares. i boosted my Tele with this monster and have not regretted it for one day, hefty low-end and crystal clear high's make for a killer tone. Lead tone can be a little harsh but if you use and overdrive or booster at all t shape your lead tone this could help. Highly recommended.
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Perfect sound
Zsolesz 28.06.2020
Im using long time seymour-duncans pick ups, the best rock crunch sound.
Noiseless, good dynamic, very nice sound.
Amazing product from SD
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Astreine Verzerrung, Clean aber dumpfPure distortion, clean but dull
Artschi 09.10.2009
Mit dem Hot Rails steht die Telecaster plötzlich in einer Reihe mit den "richtig bösen" schwarzen Kampfäxten. Meinem guten, 25 Jahre alten britischen Röhrenamp habe ich ungeahnte Klänge entlocken können: Verzerrung ohne Ende, Druck, Druck, und noch mehr Verzerrung. Unglaublich.
Klingt nicht nach 80er-Jahre, sondern sehr modern. Dafür sechs von den fünf Sternen - wäre da nicht das Problem mit dem cleanen Sound. Dem fehlt es schlicht und einfach an brillianten Höhen, an Transparenz. Ich meine nicht nur den berühmten "Twang". Es klingt schlicht und einfach muffig. Wieder zum verzerrten Kanal gewechselt und genießen - jetzt mit dem Wissen, dass die Höhen fehlen. Das ist tatsächlich zu hören, stört aber nicht, im Gegenteil, ein wenig Teleklang ist doch noch zu empfinden. Verzerrt klingt das Teil wirklich unglaublich!
Der Klang nur einer Spulen im Split Modus ist dünn, klingt original nach Eierschneider. Ist weder verzerrt noch clean zu gebrauchen. Besser parallel geschaltet: Zwar ist der Output immer noch hoch, bei runter geregelter Vorstufe aber erträglich. Was bleibt ist das Dumpfe, das Muffige, wenn auch nicht so auffällig wie bei normaler Humbucker-Schaltung.
Wie das ganze bei digitaler Klangverarbeitung klingt, kann ich nicht sagen (da klingt für mich ohnehin alles egal). Für die analoge Verstärkung zumindest mein Fazit: Als Aufrüstung, wenn es nur um Distortion geht, nur zu empfehlen. Wenn der Bridge Pickup auch für Clean Sounds eingesetzt werden soll, keine Chance.
Mit dem Hot Rails steht die Telecaster plötzlich in einer Reihe mit den "richtig bösen" schwarzen Kampfäxten. Meinem guten, 25 Jahre alten britischen Röhrenamp habe ich ungeahnte Klänge entlocken können: Verzerrung ohne Ende, Druck, Druck, und noch mehr Verzerrung. Unglaublich.
Klingt nicht nach 80er-Jahre, sondern sehr modern. Dafür sechs von den fünf
Mit dem Hot Rails steht die Telecaster plötzlich in einer Reihe mit den "richtig bösen" schwarzen Kampfäxten. Meinem guten, 25 Jahre alten britischen Röhrenamp habe ich ungeahnte Klänge entlocken können: Verzerrung ohne Ende, Druck, Druck, und noch mehr Verzerrung. Unglaublich.
Klingt nicht nach 80er-Jahre, sondern sehr modern. Dafür sechs von den fünf Sternen - wäre da nicht das Problem mit dem cleanen Sound. Dem fehlt es schlicht und einfach an brillianten Höhen, an Transparenz. Ich meine nicht nur den berühmten "Twang". Es klingt schlicht und einfach muffig. Wieder zum verzerrten Kanal gewechselt und genießen - jetzt mit dem Wissen, dass die Höhen fehlen. Das ist tatsächlich zu hören, stört aber nicht, im Gegenteil, ein wenig Teleklang ist doch noch zu empfinden. Verzerrt klingt das Teil wirklich unglaublich!
Der Klang nur einer Spulen im Split Modus ist dünn, klingt original nach Eierschneider. Ist weder verzerrt noch clean zu gebrauchen. Besser parallel geschaltet: Zwar ist der Output immer noch hoch, bei runter geregelter Vorstufe aber erträglich. Was bleibt ist das Dumpfe, das Muffige, wenn auch nicht so auffällig wie bei normaler Humbucker-Schaltung.
Wie das ganze bei digitaler Klangverarbeitung klingt, kann ich nicht sagen (da klingt für mich ohnehin alles egal). Für die analoge Verstärkung zumindest mein Fazit: Als Aufrüstung, wenn es nur um Distortion geht, nur zu empfehlen. Wenn der Bridge Pickup auch für Clean Sounds eingesetzt werden soll, keine Chance.
With the Hot Rails, the Telecaster suddenly stands in line with the “really bad” black battle axes. I was able to get unexpected sounds out of my good, 25-year-old British tube amp: endless distortion, pressure, pressure, and even more distortion. Incredible. Doesn't sound like the 80s, but very modern. Six out of five stars for that - if it weren't for the problem with the clean sound. It simply lacks brilliant highs and transparency. I don't just mean the famous "twang". It just sounds musty. Switched back to the distorted channel and enjoyed - now knowing that the highs are missing. This can actually be heard, but it doesn't bother you; on the contrary, you can still feel a little telephonic sound. When distorted, the thing sounds really incredible! The sound of just one coil in split mode is thin, originally sounds like an egg slicer. It is neither distorted nor clean to use. Better connected in parallel: The output is still high, but bearable when the preamplifier is turned down. What remains is the dull, the musty, although not as noticeable as with normal humbucker circuitry. I can't say what the whole thing sounds like with digital sound processing (it doesn't sound like anything to me anyway). At least my conclusion for analogue amplification: Highly recommended as an upgrade if it's just about distortion. If the bridge pickup is also intended to be used for clean sounds, no chance.