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Seymour Duncan HOT RAILS Tele - Single coil sized humbuckers for your telecaster!
John and Zach install Seymour Duncan Hot Rails for Tele and compare the before and after sounds with a Dr. Z Rx and a Marshall JCM 800 sound.
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Fender Player Series Telecaster
Seymour Duncan Hot Rails for Tele
1:40 Stock Pickup Demo
Kemper Dr. Z Rx (M. Britt)
2:30 On the Bench Montage
3:38 Demo with Hot Rails - Clean
Bridge, Bridge Coil Split
Neck, Neck Coil Split
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6:15 Hot Rails Demo with JCM 800
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Neck
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10:30 Cycling Sounds
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[@danpandaa]

Sounds beautiful! I’ve had my eye on these pickups for quite some time and my tele is such a great piece of wood. I really want to beef it up and you’ve certainly helped influence my decision. Thank you for this video!

[@DrJeebles]

I love the shot of you looking at your notepad. I just revived an old strat style Tanara; paint, headstock repair and some modifications on the electronics, etc. and there was a lot of referring back to my notes.

[@beefdrippings]

Tbh I was not expecting to like the “upgrade” so much but I really did. It still sounds like a Tele, just beefier. Even the coil tap tones sounded good, and I typically don’t care for coil tapping. Nice video!

[@snakedriver]

Awesome, thanks, you convinced me to keep the stock pickups because they sound like a Tele should.

[@txulallen]

Stock ones all the way

[@kevindye2166]

Thank you for doing this video. Im a Tele and Strat guy who plays in a jam band. I tire of the fender pickups. To quiet, not enough signal to really work with for what I do. Ive been thinking about switching over to hot rails for a while now. This video pushed me over the edge and pick ups are inbound. Great tone! Thanks again for a video with some jamming rather than the typical bridge on full gain metal clips that fill you tube..

[@Yttikymmug]

getting all technical! love it, great job!

[@MrRoundwound]

I bought a tele with this mod. I prefer the stock pickup. It’s a tele,after all

[@rikkousa]

I love modding guitars to achieve either a much broader array of tones not found to to acreage something not normally found in the range. A buddy nodded my 2003 MIM Strat with a couple of hot rails and one cool rail..add in an S-1 Switch and I was left with a very cool strat like none other in my collection. Thanks for doing this video, it makes me want to play my modded guitars///I have been looking at making my own Townshend Deluxe which comes with a Dimarzio HB between two Gibson Minis--add two stitches and two knobs (one to blend just the Dimarzio super distortion) and you will know why PT had 9 of these guitars!

[@s.ri.1020]

Love the color of this guitar.

[@jasongreeley]

Awesome! Super helpful. The orange got my attention but i stayed for the info. May just tackle my own next time. Favorite colour too. Pumpkincaster. 🤟 🎃

[@TheLocalFuzz]

Thanks very much for making this video. I was trying with the idea of hotrails and a coil split, but I was very unimpressed with the split sound.

[@claudehopper9813]

Been thinking about the same change up to "Rails" , but your high end sounds very thin at least on this demo ? Ramping down the shrill high end of a Tele is my eternal quest . thanks great vid .

[@Silas_Olveda]

Definitely looking to try these out!

[@jacksonhild2917]

That sounds really good. Maybe I’ll do that with my tele neck pickup

[@jimdowns1135]

Sounds great!

[@gergemall]

Love the bold mod sounds .

[@RByrne]

That sounds great!

[@juffurey]

wow thanks I think I'm going to use this in my tele. in the bridge I put a billy gibbons red devil pickup

[@solocam1962]

I put SD Hot Rodders in my Epi SG mod ... it turned out fantastic sound. I have several SD products, good stuff.

[@aristidesvillegas7167]

Hi bro what Sound it brought yo your SG?

[@favoriteblueshirt]

RE: Coil Split, the Pickups on a PRS DGT have quite the split if you fancy trying a good set of splitters.

[@mikehumphrey5]

I could definitely use that Gibson It would go awesome with my Marshall plexi amp.

[@marvelherman419]

Good tone.

[@johngregory7329]

Hello John & Zack, I really think this was a big improvement. She really came to life & that black pickguard was a big improvement, makes it look even cooler. Besides I am a big fan of Halloween & Home Depot's colors. Love to meet you guys someday. Stay safe and well and keep Rocking. Signed John Gregory Zepbass from Munster Indiana.

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

Just found you while checking out pickups for a strat.. Very cool.. Sounds great man! If I had a tele that would be a great pickup to use because I like Humbuckers and I don't like tele pickups from the factory. Too weak..

[@rockstaradventures1]

did you just follow the old wiring from the stock pickup? like its hot connection and ground and put the hot rail on same connections?

[@LeFingal]

i love the bridge! For the Neck I'm curious what DiMarzio chopper pro would sound like with that SD on the bridge. Or if possible DiMarzio Time Zone!

[@Ryan-Hall]

Love the Rails and 4 Sure 2 have the push/pull on board to keep the Single Coils is the way to Roll!! Great Upgrade!!! As far as Fav Mod I like the Nashville 3 Pick-up Mod or Factory Set up! The B-Bender is a Kool Mod, but wood I Do that To A Great Sounding Fender Tele?? NO Way!! Keep My Fender Just Straight! Only Mod What Doesn't Chop up A Classy Guitar!! And the Black Gard looks great John if ONLY Rosewood or Ebony Fretboard!! Then She Would Have More of the Harley Davidson Looks, which is a very Classy Tele!!

[@footguy7]

killer sound!

[@gillesthibodeau7078]

You're right. The split pickup sounds to thin. I like the split rail humbucker sound! ;)

[@matibrandrock]

Personally I like the coil split sound, i guess it's up to preference

[@JK-gm6kk]

I swear you were gonna break into Tweezer with the section after clean. Really wanna route my partscaster for full sized humbuckers someday, or have someone else, so i dont mess it up. I believe lace has a tele set as well. Pretty curious about those as well

[@arturonava699]

Great, thanks a lot

[@ftfkenny]

Great Video Guys!

[@88boostedbetty]

Awesome vid, great tone! Gonna be ordering one of these for the bridge in a tele build im doing right now! Do you know what size pots you are running on these? Ik seymour duncan says the 250k but have heard mixed things. Thanks!

[@DrJeebles]

Btw, It sounds great. I love that color as well.

[@darkestfugue]

im thinking of doing this to my tele but instead of the single coil wiring im thinking of going series and parallel instead, less noise less volume drop and nearly the same as a single coil sound

[@jamesnelson1443]

I agree straight humbucker sounds better! Only split I ever heard that worked was on a PRS

[@asdaven1]

I wouldve wired those pickups to go parallel vs coil split. Parallel is a fuller sound.

[@eliasbutcher859]

It definitely now sounds like a Les Paul but still has the funkiness of a tele

[@paolo-1283]

Very cool! I plan to do the same on my tele, can you share where to buy that black pickguard? I have a spare mini-humbucker pickup, but won't fit on the neck pickup cavity of the stock telecaster pickguard.

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

Thanks for watching, good plan! I found a cheap one on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZR24VJC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

[@artytoney2057]

I just grabbed a new fender tele player edition , do you know if the S D hot rails will fit in this model easily and what control.plate and wire harness do you recomend

[@TheSupart91]

Thanks now u made my decision harder between this or quarter pounders 😅😅😅😅🎸

[@cpamiseso]

What pot value you use for the volume and tone knob when using the Hotrails?

[@TheBarnaway]

Hello: Once the pick-up is installed, how is the configuration? I guess: 1-Pick up bridge. 2-pick up bridge + neck 3- pick up neck. Is it like that? thank you so much. All the best.

[@Stretchwreckedem469]

Is it just me, or does the guitar actually still sound like a telecaster even with humbucker pickups? This kind of makes me want to get a telecaster even more

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

Teles are my favorite, and actually you bring up an important point - even when swapping pickups yes it’s still a Tele and imo should still sound like a Tele with the extra body from these hbs - there’s a difference for sure but it’s enhancing or reshaping, not replacing, traditional tone

[@SkeeterDigs]

Great video👍

[@toneydavis9802]

Hey John and Zack. I have the JBE in my MIM Tele. They can get a bit spikey and brittle on the bridge. I was told it was common with rails. Did you experience that with the rails or is it because they are humbuckers you didnt experience it?

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

Thanks for watching. With the hot rails, I did not experience any brittle highs. It was really well rounded and articulate. In a weird way it reminded me of a 335, sort of.

[@tagadabrothersband]

Hello, could you tell me which is the exact reference of this guitar with this orange colour? Is it a Player Series Tele MN Capri?

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

Yes Capri orange, thanks for watching!

[@tagadabrothersband]

​@@PlayandTradeGuitars I just ordered one, plus a black pickgard. It'll match much better the name of my band which is Black Mandarine (= Tangerine 🍊 in French, sorry for the 🎃😁). I don't know yet if I'll change the pickups, I'll see. Maybe a Hot Rails in the bridge position like on my Strat for good disto sounds, but probably not in the neck position because I also want to keep softer sounds. And I don't find this black pickup goes so well with a glossy black pickguard, because it's not the same black. So I'll keep a classic chrome tele pickup. Anyway, thank you for your video because it showed me, before I bought the guitar, what the result of the modifications I had in mind could be, which is very appreciable and not so common!

[@derrickharmon7980]

Spanky to Cranky 🎸

[@mayito714]

Better lower end frequencies but not so much on the upper end frequencies.

[@roqueeeeeeeee]

doing the same to my 88 tele mij that currently has a nocaster set. 1 question, are you using 250k pots as in the schematics? for Humbuckers should be 500k.

[@fuzzbe642]

Wow way better than stock .

[@venomjoe]

what pots need that type of pickups? 250k or 500k?

[@mikaelflodstrom6370]

In the spirit of Albert Collins

[@timbuk1126]

These sound even better with 500k pots.

[@CLA82529]

Wait, the twang is still there when you installed the Hot Rails?

[@diegolatorre6793]

I think Hot Rails are proper for Strats, its a distinct sound because of that middle pickup magnets, this just sounds like any 2 humbucker guitar :(

[@Roundbeadadvocate]

Normally not a fan of relicing guitars, but anything would look better than pumpkin orange, hah. It might look pretty good a little beat up or worn.

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Try a Seymour Duncan BG1400 Billy Gibbons tele bridge pickup. Change your life.

[@darkestfugue]

did you change to 500k pots?

[@tres311]

He has a plausible deniability mullet. Nice!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I put Hot Rails bridge and Hot Rhythm neck in my Tele. The magnetic pull on the strings from 16 and 10 ohms is so great it chokes out bends on a 9.5" radius--even with pickups mashed down.

[@nowheretorun98]

Got any 80s/90s MIJs you're trying to get rid of?

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

I have a few, not sure if I could part with them! Are you looking for a strat or tele?

[@nowheretorun98]

@@PlayandTradeGuitars A bound TL62 or an ST62 (JV / Extrad type preferably). If you come across one that you want to sell off, remember me!

[@efx245precor3]

Did you go with 500s or just stay with stock 250s?

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

The push pull is 500k, thanks for watching!

[@danielmolina5178]

500k pots?

[@ANSM210]

Can I still win that guitar…………..

[@johnalex3023]

I don’t think you mentioned, but you did swap both pots to 500k, right?

[@Sargoneees]

yes, those pots he is using are 500k

[@Thegreatone-tx1yl]

Dude play a damn chord!!!!!!

[@jamesfrederick99]

Please gift me that guitar in intro. Love tha look of tha Custom Les Paul. I want it. I need it. I gots to have it. Gots to have it mister.

[@obelysk4209]

Coil split not tap

[@chrischu9551]

Still 250k pots?

[@PlayandTradeGuitars]

Push Pull is 500k, thanks for watching

[@briandietrich1373]

Sounded better with stock Tele pickups..

[@sandlmv8301]

Wow, i much prefer tye stock pickups. Hotrails are a Go d mod for a bit dge on a strat. Sounds dark and lifeless and lost dynamics compared to the stock demo on this s video.

[@carlmiller4793]

What is a tye stock pickup?

[@GiancarloCininni]

Whats ths point? its kills the tele character. Sounded way more interesting stock. I think if you want those humbucker tones get a humbucker guitar

[@briandietrich1373]

I agree!

[@LuizRock]

Drum machine sucks

[@MobileDecay]

These pickups are so overpriced man. You can get basically the same sound from $17. pickups on Amazon. 🙄

[@timbuk1126]

Bullshit

[@robe.739]

Coil tapping is the biggest marketing gimmick in the history of pickups... If you want a singke coil sound then you need a single coil guitar. Its that simple. Different guitars have different applications. There is no substitute.

[@tagadabrothersband]

As if Fender themselves had never put humbucker on their own "single coil guitars". Do you think single coils grow on alders and humbuckers on mahogany? The pick up change the sound only, not the shape, the confort or the sensations. One guitar can have different applications. Its that simple.

[@paulytone]

Pretty good riffs but your timing is terrible! Respectfully

[@Chrono205]

Before is much more better.

[@JK-gm6kk]

The stock pickups can play just fine with high gain/distortion, but im not huge on the twangy tones that seem to come most naturally from tele pickups. If I could afford a Jim root tele or just get my tele routed for full sized invaders or whatever other humbuckers, then that's what I would do. But in the meantime, getting some of these for playing with overdrive and distortion. I think they even sound fine clean, too, imo. but you know what they say about opinions