foxyloxy said:
WOW i LOVE that jag whats the deal with cool rail, is it just what the name suggests (like hot rails but not as hot).
as for your pedals, Nice!! i want the PS-5 and the WH-4 soooo bad what do you think is better out of the 2?
Cool Rails are, from what I understand, Seymour Duncan's low-noise answer to a weak humbucker or a hot single coil. They tend to have an output and EQ similar to the Fender Jaguar hot pickups according to SD's tone chart. The reason they are in there is they came with the guitar, and sounded like a Jaguar, so I saw no point in spending $100+ to put a new set of pickups in there. However, I did not like the original look of the cool rails as much, and I saw some guy here on Jag-Stang.com had cut a Jaguar pickup cover to go around the hot rail pickup in the bridge position of his Jaguar, so I decided to copy the idea, but add the claw into the mix too. It seems after all my tampering, most of the Jaguar's sound is the bridge and tailpiece and the 24" scale.
Here's a before pic of the guitar before I put the covers and claws on, actually, it's the image from Guitar Hangar, where I bought it.
As for the pedals, I don't prefer one over the other since they are a little different. The BOSS has more ocillator noise, especially when using the "intelligent harmonizer" function, but the Digitech lacks that function.
I use the Whammy more for drop tuning my guitar down a whole step for some songs (and sometimes I use the experession pedal to tune it just right), I also use it to get harmonized effects without the intelligent harmonizer effect. Sometimes I use DeTune for chorus, or whammy to bend full chords up and down.
The PS-5 I tend to use more like one of those Bugbrand or Zvex pedals, as well as to tune my guitar down like a bass guitar, which I use sometimes on some songs. I use the trem bar effect to add a funny warbling noise to my sound, use the whammy to dive down a full octave without having to worry about pedal calibration, and use the intelligent harmonizer sometimes (albeit sparingly).
