All user reviews for the Seymour Duncan SHR-1B Hot Rails Strat Bridge

I got this baby from music scene mansfield through mail order for around £70.

where do we begin. well it beats the crap out of the original single coil pickups fitted to my strat. i thought maybe because it is much smaller than a regular humbucker that it might not be as good, but it has really good levels of output and gives you all the crunch and reythem needed for hammering out those barre chords.

it makes the other pickups sound crap.

well its very well sturdy and fits into a normal single coil slot on a strat body. as long as you dont hit it with a hammer or anything i think it'll be fine.

If you are looking for a pickup to give your single coil equiped guitar more crunch and a more solid sound , you cant go wrong with one of these.

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It is a micro particularly comfortable in the clear as in distortion. Personally I uitlise in a somewhat unusual. I mounted my Strat us a Floyd Classic hotrails prvu for the bridge in the neck position which he Confre a palette of his more strait but is extraordinary because increases in the trs low frequencies.

The big advantage is that it is also possible to split. He then offers opportunities supplmentaire and somewhat surprising based on the micro enventuel mdium.

Mount in the neck position was a hot and trs ct nanmoins versatile granules but with a tendency to clear if its All Aboard for a deep draft of rope. Lovers slamming clear sound will be a little over due microphones wiser SL59 style and promoting musical mdiums. Its dynamics and its output level makes it a great microphone that restitution Fidler expression of the game

Mount in the bridge position is the power without dvastatrice be, he prfrera SH6 or in a Dimarzio DP100 Super (with less precision) for use purely disto East . The sound is generally more equilibrated than the version prvue for mounting in the neck position and lends itself well to the legalization crasis mdiums.

DEFINITIONS In is one of the most versatile mics I jou while having a nice warm color. It respects the legalization and the personality of the instrument and it retains the largest relief of the game

I did mount a Start Us (like everyone else I feel ^ ^), a highway in the bridge position.
I do not want a router on my beautiful blonde, but I wanted to make it more punchy distortion, because the initial micro was a little weak, I got good sound to play Nirvana or Chuck Berry .... But good for days of thing a little more "acrobatic" like Satriani, Halen or (of course) to Start Heavy Ambassador: Mr Malmsteen, these ben mics did not take the road is clear ...
The sound is gnial is another world disto ... well I do not really test it because I use to clean it the pickups and neck intermdiaire origins.
Anyway a Hot Rails is more saturated sound destiny and he does very well.
It enlve TOC Gentillet the Start, because it is often the fate plutt Start is doing stuff blues, funk, rock 'n' roll stuff .... finally PrEP ... And that's what I take exception! J'intervient! (Hh What I rebel) and I said NO, the darling of Fender LITTLE trs well take the road with good microphones ...
What do you ... I love this guitar ^ ^

I've had two months, a Cort Sterling Mount MSM config:

DiMarzio Virtual PAF neck
SD Hot rails SHR1-B
Bill Lawrence L-500XL

I play rock / mtal / thrash.

I was looking for a simple micro middle format to assist in the Bill Lawrence bridge and broaden the range in heavy distortion.

I find that using micro trs:
+ + Trs high output. Unless the L-500XL, but here must serious.

- Severe lack of acute L-500XL with more levels is more balance.
- Clean sounds too dull. This is the point consquence Previous by its clear I do not use it, too muffled, inaudible, Lo-Fi.
- I do not mix with the microphone neck. As its a fairly dull and flat, the neck compltement complexion that is bright, balanced. I connected the slcteur for the L-500XL bridge on the middle position and mixable with the other two.
- Suffers from the comparison with the L-500XL. On my guitar I have the choice between the two and Hot Rail is of no intrt. Level less than, less bright tone with the 500XL a decrease of at least two rounds.

I am wanting to put the DiMarzio Red Velvet I had before, which is a simple but easy to surbobin SERIES and the cable with the other two.

PS. The microphone is a bit wide and I had to enlarge the dfonce in the body of the guitar in order to make it fit.

Seymour Duncan is probably the most popular pickup maker in the world. They are known for their humbuckers and vintage style single coils. This Hot Rails is a more modern style single coil sized pickup more in the style of what Dimarzio does. Dimarzio is more known for their single coil sized humbuckers than Seymour Duncan is. Duncan is known for their vintage hot rodded single coils that everyone loves and their vintage Humbuckers. This is a single coil sized humbucker. It does not sound much like a single coil because of this. It sounds more like a humbucker than a single coil. It has a very big and fat sound. It is not thin and twangy like a single coil In the neck is has a smooth tone like a vintage paf or something. In the bridge it can give a nice fat tone for hard rock playing. It can be split which is something you dont think about much when you are playing with single coils. The split tones sound more like single coils but it kind of defeats the purpose of this pickup. If you are going to split it why not just get single coils to begin with. Some of the older models have a different kind of case with a little lip on the top. If you are working the tremolo hard your strings can get caught on the lip of the pickup. This is the reason you see some 80s players putting tape on the bottom portion of their pickups to prevent the strings form getting caught under heavy tremolo use. If you are looking a fat humbucker sound in your strat and do not want to get a new pickguard or carve out your body this is probably one of your best bets from Dimarzio.

The Seymour Duncan Hot Rails is a single coil sized humbucker that features two blade rails, a ceramic magnet and four conductor wiring.

This is my favorite single coil sized humbucker in the Seymour Duncan lineup. It’s very fat, has tons of output and works awesome in the neck and bridge positions. When it’s in the neck, it’s a very warm, fairly focused sounding hotrodded PAF-esque pickup. It’s great for lead tones, especially in guitars like the Caparison Horus where the neck pickup is moved back a bit due to there being 27 frets. In a 22 fret guitar, it can sometimes get a bit too fat, but it all depends on what tone you’re going for. In the bridge, it’s tight, focused, yet still retains that fat and powerful sound. It works awesome in the bridge of strats.

Split coil tones are all right on this, and parallel is all right as well. It’s nothing I use too often with this pickup as I feel it sounds best in series. The Hot Rails has actually gone through a change in terms of looks. However, there has been no difference in terms of tone. It sounds the same, and Seymour Duncan has links on their website A/Bing both pickups. I have both versions, and they sound the exact same to me as well. I prefer the newer housing as it prevents the high e string from snagging the coils during crazy vibratos.

If you’re looking for a very fat sounding single coil sized humbucking pickup in the Seymour Duncan line, I highly recommend you check this out. It works in most any wood, but it sounds especially awesome in alder where the neutrality of the wood helps make the pickup sing a bit more. If it’s too hot for you, try lowering the pickup height. I don’t really recommend trying out the Cool Rails if you’re looking for a lower output version of this.