Duncan P-rails

[shortfuse]

Anyone else ever try these?  Just installed a set in one of my guitars that had P-90's in it.  I used the triple shot rings so I could switch from humbucking in or out of phase to single rail or P-90 setting on the fly or very easily.
Overall I am kinda disappointing.  I find them to be very thin sounding which is surprising as all the duncan pickups I have tried usually sound good overall.  The humbucking setting and single coil rail setting are ok but the P-90 setting is far from a real P-90 sound.  As I just replaced a fralin and a lollar P-90 with these.  This guitar sounds great with humbuckers I will probably just go back to that with coil split capabilities, sounded good with the P-90's but was a 1 trick pony.  I do like the Triple shots but don't know the longevity of using them live where they will get sweat on them, seem kinda delicate with the little switches exposed.  I will post some pic's later tonight.

[G._Hoffman]

Don't like em.  They don't catch the best parts of anything.  Boring sounding.



Gabriel

[pullshocks]

I tried a set for a while, but will be putting them up for sale.  I would not say they suck, but I found another pickup I enjoy  more (DiMarzio Bluesbucker).

I wired them up with a 4 position rotary switch for each pickup

The P90 coil I really liked.  Whether it is a "real" P90 sound or not, I can't say, as I have not had a real P90 guitar for a long time.

So you've got that sound, and a fairly hot humbucker sound, and the rail sound that gets you in the ballpark of a telecaster or stratocaster sound.   You are probably going to want to bring up the amp volume and tweak the amp tone controls when changing to the fender type sound
 
I can see where somebody in a band covering a range of styles would find it a good way to get 3 distinct sounds without changing guitars.