Four sounds in one pickup

Seymour Duncan’s P-Rail pickup combines the hum-cancelling effect of a humbucker with the appeal of two signature single coil sounds: a P-90 and a Rail Blade.

Using a four position rotary switch, you can get four distinct sounds out of the P-Rail:

• Humbucker in series for high output
• Humbucker parallel
• Single Coil P-90
• Single Rail Blade

You can see the simplified wiring as well as the detailed version for the actual soldering of the rotary switch above.

If you use two P-Rail pickups in a Les Paul style wiring, you would (theoretically) get 24 different sounds:

• The Les Paul toggle offers three options:
  • Neck only (4 options)
  • Bridge only (4 options)
  • Both pickups (additional 4x4 = 16 options)