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changing guitar pickups (newbie question)

  • 28-10-2004 2:42pm
    #1
    Jethrog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    While I have been playing guitar for years, I have very rarely changed or been to interested in the equipment side of things.

    Lately i've been getting tired of the sound from my fender strat and wanted to beef it up a bit.

    I've been looking at this pickup - Seymour Duncan Hot Rails

    http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/products/stratsdescr.shtml#HotRailsforStrat

    and was wondering is there any point in getting just one, and if so what position should I put it in? Also how hard is it to install them if I have no soldering experience?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Eoin Madsen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Eoin Madsen


    Personally, I'd go with the bridge position for a hotrails on strat. Nice choice.

    If you've never soldered, a pickup is not a great place to start, to be honest. It's not hard, but you need a little experience. Things usually fry the first couple of times you do it.


  • #3
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Hotrails in bridge position seconded.


  • #4
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Depending on your strat the output from the hotrails might be substantially louder than your strat and, therefore, you end up with woeful volume changes when you move from pickup to pickup. The general consesus among strat afficionados is to have your pickups pretty much level with the scratchplate for a sweeter, but not louder tone. This obviously won't do with quieter output. What might be an option, even though it'd be a little more expensive, would be to buy a new scratchplate with a H-H configuration, two humbuckers. Get that wired up and just swap it in in pace of your S-S-S config. The hotrails, in my experience, don't sound quite the same as a full sized humbucker.

    Also, if you've never soldered before, a guitar is not the place to start, you can do too much damage way too easily. Better get someone experienced to do it if you're not totally sure of what you're doing.


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