Using this in the neck slot of a Warmoth Soloist 2-pickup parts guitar. I have a super 5 way wired for neck series, neck parallel, both series, bridge parallel, bridge series. The neck series/parallel switching is VERY useful wih an SVR-1, as you get a 'hifi' parallel mode that is the closest to a real single coil I've heard from any rail-type humbucking strat-sized pickup. And, this pickup in series produces a fat, screaming lead tone or fat, smooth cleans. For reference, it's hotter with more mids and highs than a Cool Rails neck in series. Pay no mind to the reviewer who claims to use this pickup 'split' because one coil senses the three low strings, and one coil senses the 3 high strings. Its impossible to use split (and I tried it) unless you only want three strings amplified...

Duncan used to offer this and the Duckbucker wired permanently in parallel, but the 4 wire option offers users that hot fat series mode, and adds greatly to this pickup's versatility.

A very unique and effective design. If you like Dimarzio rails, this one has the top end extension to compete and offers yet another tonal flavor. Enjoy!

This thing sounds great. I have it in the middle position of a Squier VM HSS Telecaster, in-between a Lindy Fralin minihumbucker and a Duncan Vintage Lead Stack, and it sounds awesome, alone and combined with the other two. More quack than a Strat, and a great throaty blues tone all by itself. If I were building a new Strat, I would totally put three of these in it.

Awesome sound in my TexMex Tele. I will get the recommended PU pairing stated in the SD website for an awesome setup with my hotrails! I have a S2 switch for parallel or series between PUs and a 3way toggle for all three pickups to single, parallel and series them individually. This works well with my hotrails and sounds great clean and overdriven. I can get a warm clean full pickup or a tele twang single rail. And when I push/pull my acoustic filter in, it still sounds awesome between full and single rail. Like I have more than one kind of acoustic guitar at my fingertips.

Love this pickup. Exactly the sound I was looking for. I recently decided to update my old Squier HSS strat (wanted to try my hand at building a partscaster) I never spent much time on the neck pickup before I got this. I was putting together a partscaster out of an old Squier HSS Strat I had and put this in the neck postion (mid was a SVR-1n Vintage Rails and bridge a Pearly Gates - 500k pots on vol and both tones). Wow, the sound this puts out - cool and mellow on clean and bluesy with a bite through my Wampler Sovereign. Since this was a project guitar I did all kinds of fun stuff including coil splitting and series/parallel switching with this pup. I am extremely happy with all of the tones I get. As I noted this pup has me using the neck position more than in the past, and it works really well in combo with the SVR-1n in the mid position - both as a humbucker and I really, really like the single (split) coil on clean.using all humbuckers, but still wanted to keep that strat quack at the 2 and 4 positions. I also use the middle pickup by itself every once in a while. The SVR-1n fits the bill perfectly. Great tone by itself and keeps that vintage strat sound in combo with the bridge and neck pups. I ended up pairing this with a Cool Rails single coil size humbucker in the neck and a Pearly Gates in the bridge. Really liking all of the tone combinations.

I tried 250k pots with this pickup since it was "sort-of" a single coil and I like single coils with 250k's, but I felt the tone was a little too muddy for my taste so went back to the 500k. Of course this is a personal preference and ymmv.

Since this was a project guitar I went all out - coil splitting, series/parallel switching, switch for turning on the bridge pickup at any position. One thing to note with this pickup if you are thinking of coil splitting - you can but you probably won't want to. The SVR-1n is wired so that the top three strings are on one coil, and the bottom three on the other. I believe this is how they get that great strat single coil sound out of a hunbucking pickup. So if you split the coils you're only going to have three strings coming through. Although I did read an interesting post by someone thinking of putting three SVR-1s in a strat and combining the coils in different combinations (top 3 strings through the bridge pup, bottom 3 through the neck, etc.). I split the coils on the bridge and neck pups but left this one alone. It sounds great used in combo with either humbucker with both coils on, but really sounds awesome once I drop one of the coils.

As I said, everything I was looking for in my middle pup.

The sound of these vintage rails is definetely stellar and I highly recommend them the only bad thing about them is the thickness of the wiring. That is one of the reasons i gave 4 stars instead of 5. As much as the thickness of the wire does not affect tone all that much its frustrating to work with such tiny wire it is so easy to break the leads accidentally while stripping even with strippers that are designed for 28+ wire sizes.

As for the actual sound they produce it is amazing and i am in love with the rails. It's hard to describe these because they are somewhere inbetween a neck and a bridge sound and they have an odd quirk to them even in comparison to other mid rails.