Strat rails
Just recently I hot rodded a free Squire affinity strat after talking to the tech man at Seymour Duncan about my goals. With his input I decided on a SD hot rail in the neck, a SD 'lil 59 in the middle, and a SD JB Jr. in the bridge. According to the SD tech this is a favorite pup configuration of a lot of players. He also suggested some other configurations.
You can call them at their corporate number and ask the tech what he thinks.
I chose to mix up the pups instead of getting a rail set because I wanted to get different tones from the different positions and the selection I put in delivers some awesome diversity of tone. These are hum cancelling pups but sound awesome.
I am thinking of getting a set of GFS hot rails for another guitar and I think they will sound really good. I had a hot rail GFS 'lil killer in the bridge of a guitar I sold and it was awesome.
I don't want all of my guitars to sound the same so I like to consider ones with different tones. That's why I got a couple P90 guitars, awesome tone, and some Peavey Generation EX tele type guitars that have distinctly different tele tones from a typical tele, really nice tones and high quality guitars that are being sold inexpensively and the Generation EX line is being discontinued.
Another thing you could do is go to a place that sells Squires and play that version that they have out with hot rails in it. It looks super nice but I didn't play it. I bet it sounds great. That would probably give you an idea of how the GFS pups would sound in a strat.
I really like that hot rail in the neck position on my affinity. It sounds really, really nice. Really drives the amp into a smooth distortion.
Duffy
Duffy
South Williamsport, Pa.
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