I fitted a set of P-Rails into an Epiphone ES-339. They have transformed the guitar completely. It is now incredably flexible tonally. I installed the pickups in conjunction with a set of Tripple-Shot Mounting Rings. These permit me to select P-90, Single Coil, Humbucker Parallel or Series for each of the pickups seperately from the pickup rings discretely. I have also rewired the guitar so that one volume push/pull permits phase selection while the other volume push/pull permits parallel/series selection. As a result it is a very clean setup without toggle switches all over the guitar or drilling holes etc. The phase selection also helps reduce hum when using single coil type modes.
The pickups have a really great tone and are very resilliant at higher volumes, no microphonic issues. In P-90 mode the pickups are very hot as you would expect from a P-90 type pickup. Lots of attitude with a full tone, definition and a bit of snarl. In single coil mode it has a totally different character to the P-90, light and rounded, interesting in a semi-acoustic guitar. Parallel and series modes work well, I've never had a pickup wired in parallel so very interesting for me at any rate.
In all modes these pickups are outstanding. They have great definition and warmth. These are very much passive pickups done right, they have that classic sort of honk and in a really cool way. The huge variety of tones available are fantastic fun.
Massive improvement and change from the Epi PUs that came as stock. The stock PUs were OK but these are too much fun. The Seymore Duncans are fantastic fun and just give you loads of variety.
Seymore Duncan has wiring diagrams on their site for loads of different configurations too.
I would most definately recomend these pickups. Never mind anything else, they are just so much fun.
