Rehearsal wil my Tele and P-Rails

[infrared72]

I got together with my brother (the drummer) and a new bass player this evening to see how we play together, and it went great. I played my HH Tele with P-Rails into my Fender Cyber twin, and man does it sound good. I couldn't be happier with my sound at the moment. And p-90 pickups just rule - can I say that right now? These pickups are really versatile. This was really the first time I got to turn up louder than I normally do at home, and hear the setup with two other musicians. Everyone needs at least one guitar with p-rails. I find that my tele seems to be the most versatile of all my guitars currently.

-Peter

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

wil my Tele?

[infrared72]

I meant with -- fixing that now.

[Laughing Kookaburra]

How do you have the HB mode? Series or parallel? How does that sound?

[infrared72]

In series - it has a really nice bite, and with proper eq and distortion it cuts through perfectly with a drummer and bass player. Single coil mode is just the p90 coil - I've got another push/pull pot that I intended to solder in to select either p90 coil or the rail coil, I just haven't gotten to that yet. The p-rails are a different kind of sound - and the note clarity seems to be there whether the pickup is in single coil or humbucking mode.

The tone was bitey enough that I had to back off on the presence and treble on my amp, but it is nice to know that I can go there if need to. It seems like my eq is a little over-compensated when I'm fiddling around with my guitars at home - probably because I can't get that loud here. I do find that I'm using less distortion now than I have in the past. I like chords to rip and roar as much as the next guitar player, but I have been trying to use the volume control on my guitar more rather than just cranking the gain on my amp to 11.

-PT