KEY FEATURES

• P-90, humbucker, and single-coil tones from a single pickup
• Set of two (neck and bridge pickups included)
• Color: Black
• Requires push-pull pots or mini toggle switches to access all three sounds

DESCRIPTION

The P-Rails is one of Seymour Duncan’s most versatile pickups. It’s a humbucker, a P-90 and a single-coil rail pickup in one. However, to access all these sounds it’s necessary to do some more complicated wiring then you might do if you’re just putting a normal humbucker in your guitar – even if you’ve already wired a coil split before. The fact that some players go for a fourth sound – both coils wired in parallel – only adds to the potential for wiring confusion.
One way to sidestep any confusion completely is to use Triple Shot mounting rings. They give you immediate access to all four sounds from each pickup without needing to use push/pull pots or mini switches, or even to understand four-conductor wiring. If you’re not interested in learning the ins and outs of the P-Rails but you want to take full advantage of them, using Triple Shots is the way to go.
But many players want to gain full control of their P-Rails in other ways. This might be because they’re using a 5-way switch, or they’d rather have mini toggles on their guitar, for example. And this means that the P-Rails is one pickup that accounts for a huge amount of the pickup wiring questions that we get.
The purpose of this short series is to give any player who already understands guitar wiring reasonably well, enough insight into the functionality of the P-Rails pickups that they feel confident in designing and implementing a wiring scheme that works for them.

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