Pickups posted by TallChap

I was lucky enough to attend this year's NAMM show in Anaheim, CA (big thank you to everyone at Seymour Duncan for the pass).

I'm gonna talk about a SD product. It looks like a shameless plug/spammity thing, but bear with me. It will be my next purchase, and I am not affiliated with SD apart from having friends there - basically I gain nothing from this. Just wanted to share as this is a phenomenal recording/gigging tool.

Well, two products:
1.) P-Rails
2.) Triple-shot mounting ring

P-Rails is four pick-ups in one:
One rail type single coil similar to a Strat pickup.
One P90
In the space of a humbucker.

Blend to two and you can have either series or parallel humbucker.

I make that about 30 sounds from one guitar - based on two of these installed....

The P90s are a 'real' P90 (despite size) and have all the balls you'd associate with a P90. The rail single coils will give you the "2" or "4" tone from a Strat, and both together gives you a nice high-gain humbucker.

The Triple-shot mounting ring (they make them to fit both flat and carved top guitars) has two switches mounted to the top of a standard looking humbucker mounting ring. Dependent on how these switches are configured, you can run any humbucker (4-conductor) in split coil (either one), series, and parallel modes. If you add this flexibility to the P-Rails pickup, you have all that coil switching without having to add a bunch of mini-switches and/or push/pull pots to your guitar.

For the studio/gigging guitar player it means that many tones may be had from one guitar - rather than a truckload.

Big thank you to Frank Falbo at Seymour Duncan (the developer/inventor of these marvels) for the personal demonstration. I'm sold.

These are definitely going on my Schecter.