Seymour Duncan Humbucker SHPR-1B P-Rails Bridge Pickup

application
Ground breaking,patent pending design allows a full-size humbucker to split to either a ”real deal” P-90 or a traditional single coil. Perfect for a wide variety of styles including country,pop,surf,jazz,blues,classic rock,and heavy rock.

description
Until now,if you wanted humbucker,P-90,and vintage Strat® tones,you’d have to haul three guitars to the gig. Enter P-Rails™. It’s a full-size humbucker that splits to either a full-size P-90 or a special Alnico-powered single-coil Rail pickup. The humbucker sound is full and expansive,owing to the mis-matched coil configuration. The P-90 is a super fat. And the Rail coils,when used together,sound like the ”2” and ”4” positions in a great Strat.

complete setup
P-Rails are best used in a matched neck and bridge set. To get both humbucker and P-90 tones,use a two-way switch (push-pull or mini-toggle). To have humbucker and P-90 tones and bring in the added dimension of the single-coil Rail,use a three-way switch (DPDT on-off-on).

guitars
P-Rails can be used in any guitar set up for a traditional humbucker or Trembucker. A single P-Rails will bring added dimension to your guitar. However,to optimize P-Rails’ unique splitting capabilities and get the best single-coil Rails tones,use a neck and bridge set.

available mods
Normally,in humbucking mode,P-Rails are wired in series,for a high-output sound that works great for classic rock and heavier tones. However,when wired in parallel,the coil mismatch produces a very usable P.A.F.-style humbucker tone with less phase cancellation associated with standard parallel wired humbuckers,complete with present upper-mid ”bloom” and pronounced string articulation.

players
Peter Stroud / Sheryl Crow Band,Blues Saraceno,Eric Miker / Decemberadio