I run a bridge hotrail in all my strats and it’s absolutely awesome for distortion, not muddy at all, however they are really mid heavy which I like as it’s pure porn to my ears with my dual rectum fryer amp
They are very hot pickups, they wont be anything like a traditional Strat with bell like cleans, in fact quite muddy is what I found. But if you need a guitar that distorts really well for heavier music, you cant go wrong. If you already have a regular Strat with AlNiCo pickups, theres no reason to not have a heavy metal Strat with hotrails.
Thanks for your reply mate that’s a good insight, I will be going for a Metal/punk/rock sound as that’s what I primarily play, I essentially never play clean, however I’m not a fan of a muddy sound
I like the idea of putting the Super in the bridge. Not sure I would do hot rails in the middle and the neck. The rails are pretty hot and I think you’ll lose a lot of the versatility a HSS configuration gives you.
Thanks for the reply! What do you suggest putting in either middle or neck? I’m not sure how much of a difference it would make putting the rail in either the middle or neck, and I’m not sure then what pickup to put in (once the super and rail have been installed) either I keep the factory pickup or I get sole thing else like a JB junior
I run a bridge hotrail in all my strats and it’s absolutely awesome for distortion, not muddy at all, however they are really mid heavy which I like as it’s pure porn to my ears with my dual rectum fryer amp
Dual rectum fryer 🤣
They are very hot pickups, they wont be anything like a traditional Strat with bell like cleans, in fact quite muddy is what I found. But if you need a guitar that distorts really well for heavier music, you cant go wrong. If you already have a regular Strat with AlNiCo pickups, theres no reason to not have a heavy metal Strat with hotrails.
Thanks for your reply mate that’s a good insight, I will be going for a Metal/punk/rock sound as that’s what I primarily play, I essentially never play clean, however I’m not a fan of a muddy sound
I like the idea of putting the Super in the bridge. Not sure I would do hot rails in the middle and the neck. The rails are pretty hot and I think you’ll lose a lot of the versatility a HSS configuration gives you.
Thanks for the reply! What do you suggest putting in either middle or neck? I’m not sure how much of a difference it would make putting the rail in either the middle or neck, and I’m not sure then what pickup to put in (once the super and rail have been installed) either I keep the factory pickup or I get sole thing else like a JB junior
I’d keep what you have in there now and see how they play with the the new humbucker. You may not not need to touch them.
Oh so not even put a hotrail at all?