Members Ryan F Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 I'm planning on replacing the bridge pickup on my standard fender strat with a SD shr-1 hot rails. What wiring modifications do i need to do when introducing a humbucker into a single coil guitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members septopus Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 As a drop in replacement, just follow the SD directions, you can also look on their website for larger diagrams. You'll basically have 4 wires coming out of the pup instead of 2 on the single coil, you'll solder two together, ground one, and run the other to the selector switch. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan F Posted May 19, 2006 Author Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 I'm not really sure what pickup I want. I dont use my strat too much because i dont have a huge use for single coils. What pickup (single coil replacement) would be best to throw in to play stuff like Iron Maiden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bruce Bennett Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hot rails is a great heavy sounding high gain pickup. the Scream'in demon is good for leads too.. the little JB is a hot lead pickup, not as good for rythums as the hot rails IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members septopus Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hot Rails is what I put in the bridge of my American Strat, very happy with it (also used in Maiden). I first got the JB Jr., good, just not exactly what I was looking for. I put it in myself initially (like all my other replacement pups), but decided I wanted it split so I had my guitar tech wire all three pups to the middle pot (master tone), and wired the split to the bottom tone pot, now on 1 it's a single coil, on 10 it's a full humbucker. It's a good pup, great, heavy humbucker, and split it sounds like a nice clean Strat single-coil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strat6866 Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 Originally posted by Bruce Bennett Hot rails is a great heavy sounding high gain pickup. the Scream'in demon is good for leads too.. the little JB is a hot lead pickup, not as good for rythums as the hot rails IMHO i just put a GFS lil' killer which is alot like the screamin demon or hot rails but half the price, in my strat. it sounds awesome in the bridge position for screaming solos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strat6866 Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 Originally posted by septopus As a drop in replacement, just follow the SD directions, you can also look on their website for larger diagrams. You'll basically have 4 wires coming out of the pup instead of 2 on the single coil, you'll solder two together, ground one, and run the other to the selector switch. Good luck. thats exactly how i did mine....very simple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nephilim-777 Posted May 19, 2006 Members Share Posted May 19, 2006 Maiden? Dave uses an SH-11 bridge and Hot Rails through out. On SSS guitars, all Hot Rails. Janick uses JBJr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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