The Hottest Pickup On AliExpress 

Ah yes the Oops! All Rails! pickup. Doesn't sound half bad. Definitely an interesting idea.

It warms this old man's heart to see a young buck in an Exhorder t-shirt ripping an At The Gates riff on a video opener.

the pickup doesnt sounds that bad, its would have been fun to put the pickup on the clean channel to see how it distorts. love your vids, extremely underrated

It did the Extreme thing EXTREMELY well!!😮👌 That Pup deserves a forever home!🤣

AliExpress pickups be like: “Good luck Installing this bro!”

I got a matched pair of cheap quad rail buckers from a UK brand called Warman. Believe the set was around 30€ pre-brexit, probably also chinese made, and they are wonderful metal steamrollers too. They came with wiring instructions and I installed them with a split switch. The split sound is relatively singlecoil-ish but with the benefit of still having the humbucking effect. Pretty happy with the tonal versatility tbh.

I was actually ordering these pickups for my guitar build im working on! I literally just ordered them yesterday, all the demos ive found they sound sick on

I've had good experiences with Off-Brand pickups.... they sounded as I would expect for the design, and didn't malfunction.

This is actually the best $6 sound I have ever heard and I am not even a big fan os high output pickups. I may be buying one.

Glad to see the Quadrail is making a comeback.

Good stuff... Do have a suggestion though.... Could you do a video on EXACTLY how to wax pot some pickups? Like, the whole process? Type of wax... all the stuff involved?

The exceptions to this are Lace pickups where the bobbin sits in a grounded steel channel and occasionally Fender will put a shielding ring around a pickup and ground it.

THE TONE IS KILLER!! sounds so close to an evh type

Looks like a copy of the Kent Armstrong Motherbucker, which was also the basis of several BKP models. The calling card for the Kent Armstrong is that you can set it up for a multitude of switching options to get a wide variety of sounds from just one pickup.

Props for showing a Washburn Guitar while mentioning the Bill Lawrence Humbucker. Thats rare ;)

That slaugther of the soul playing was the best ive ever hear

I hung out a few times with Exhorder!! Well just during a rehearsal session. Fantastic band

The different scale lengths might be throwing off the accuracy of the comparison between guitars. Longer scale guitars have a closer relative bridge pickup position which makes them sound brighter

Would have been cool if you also recorded the original PGM pickup for comparison =)

If I close my eyes you almost sound like Guitar MAX lol. Great video!

I mean, a Super D is pretty hot for 1972. They sound great in a Les Paul. DiMarzio (and Duncan, BKP…even Gibson) make plenty of pickups that smoke it. I’d call a Super D a medium output pickup these days. I hate rail pickups. Never found one that didn’t drive me up a wall.

My omen 6 came stock with a 14.6k neck pickup and it’s not any louder than my other neck pickups in the 6-9k range. Also it has squeaky clean tones running it through a Mesa Mark I.

Ayyyyy solid At The Gates riffs

DC resistance tells us how long is the wire used on coils, it usually corresponds to number of turns/windings around core - which is "hotness" of the pickup, but since we have 4 cores instead of usual 2 there should theoretically more turns > bigger output

Love that Exhorder shirt! Bought the same one not too long ago

Nice At The Gates riffing. It sounds killer \m/

It actually kinda rips man. I’d keep it in that guitar for sure. And… why not dip it in wax and see if it makes a difference. Would be kind of a cool experiment!

I have one of those Quadrails in one of my cheaper handman guitars from a friend, and man, it screams so much.

That actually sounded rather good 👍 even with the slight feed back. And luckily for you I am an Electrician ⚡️⚡️

Wait… At the gates? Off the rip? Subscribed!!!

Awesome playing Sir

I was just admiring a 4-color model. I generally hate hot pickups, but I may try a pair just for the look.

Nice He man cover!!!

Kramer did a pickup like that called the Quadrail and it was a very dark muddy pickup, sounded way better when split.

This reminds me of the BKP that's 4 rails, except it's designed more like dual-rail single coils just in a humbucker iirc. Rails are nice for multi-scale guitars with angled pickups so poles not aligning isn't an issue.

add to the hand made custom stainless steel pick guard that I mounted them in which is in itself shielding, I get good full range sound...lol but then I run my signal through a Blackstar ID Core 40 watt stereo amp from it's 3.5 mm earphone output in the tiny amp into the CD input ,of my surround receiver and out through the full system, sub woofer included and the tones are great..lol ...yup yup I like it loud....

I had one of these at one point, lol. If anyone sees a Glarry Burning Fire with one of these and Strat single coils and insane wiring out there, I want it back.

From your buying experience, are the pickups from AliExpress, or DGgate microphonic? Thanks for any insight. 🙂

I was tempted to buy this quadrail pickup for my silver strat but if its microphonic with feedback I don't want it even though it looks awesome and is super cheap its probably built in a mass production factory

Hierauf habe ich lange gewartet

Ah I was expecting some clean/overdriven comparisons - lot easier to tell the difference between pickups when they're clean, even super hot ones. With that much gain for shred they basically sound identical.

Sick riffage bro im 31 and hate the new death core stuff so happy to hear some of stuff

Like the Kramer labeled "quad rails" pickup.

Paul Gilbert seeing you not being an electrician 😶

The K-man buying the cheap stuff on Aliexpress so we dont have to. :)

Slaughter of the soul tuned up!?!??!?!?!??!

Sick riffing dude. Nice picking skills.

Pickups don’t have shielding, just potting to prevent vibration-based feedback.

Glenn showed pickups dont matter, half a pop tart sounded the same as BKPs or Fishmans

do you have an Orange Micro Dark review? :0

I was surprised…the cheap pickup sounded quite good…however, I could tell you really enjoyed playing that N2 way more👍

I purchased the same pickup except I got mine on eBay I use mine at the neck and it actually distorts and doesn't have that muddy sound that usually comes with distorting on the neck pickup

Actually the hottest quad rail humbucker I know of is from Warman Guitars UK. The Drivetrain. Few sound bites to be found but the one I did find sounded great.

Haha nice At the Gates riffing in standard to demo the pup \m/

Feeling the yngwie malmsteen vibe 😊

It sounds great! Problem is, all those people who spent lots on hot pups, ( I recently bought a pair of Hot Rails), are going to be butt hurt.

Since you've played it in so many videos now, THE HE-MAN WOMAN HATER IS NOT PICKED, IT'S LEGATO. It's what gives it that funky time-feel

Kaylen browsing AliExpress? Never! /s

Peavey did a quad rail pickup for The Cropper Classic

Do you guys ever fret the highest fret, then play the string behind the fret finger then slide to the first fret? It sounds pretty cool.

I've got a Wilkinson humbucker and it actually is decent, not amazing but better than the stock ones some cheaper guitars have

Both sounded good.

i took a course on how to assemble and wind pickups. its super simple. you should definitely wax pot that pickup

Sounds good. Now I want 3 in a Les Paul black beauty.

I'll say it too man, they sound pretty good. Not bad certainly. Some people like a hot pickup that feeds back a little. I wonder how it would sound by the neck? Btw if those four wires are actually all connected normally you could wire this several ways. I imagine coil split or putting bridge out of phase with the neck in 'both' position. Whatever. Four rails looks cool.

Pickup height is the trick for these. The rails provide bigger flux field so dont be scared to lower em so your strings are in the most field lines

i got a 90s washburn also lol

Bill Lawrence use to make something similar called the motherbucker. I have a pair of them in my Flying V and they are mad chunky

Your playing is super smooth and clean! Loved this video!

I literally need a pick up like this xD, im forming a grindcore/noisecore band, so feedback=good

Dude...holy shit...your right hand is like a machine.

Sounds pretty good to me!

I don’t hate this pickup either, but I see what you mean about the feedback. I wouldn’t want to sit there wax potting a cheap pickup - you may as well buy a pickup that’s $10-$20 more that is already shielded because the supplies to do the wax potting will cost at least that if not more (plus time is money too!). However, what about it shielding the inside of the electronics cavity? That takes less time/effort, and the investment in the necessary supplies (basically shielding paint and a brush or shielding tape/foil) might make it more cost effective and worth doing. It’s not a sure fix, though, but I would think it’s likely to help in most cases if someone wants to make a habit of buying cheap pickups on the regular.

Thanks!

Sounds great to me !!!

where to buy this pickup

you have such a good taste when it comes to riffs, i love each and every one you Play. 3:18 what song is that?

Please build a guitar fully out of ali express parts 😂

What's the pcb on 3:14 about? on board preamp? If yes were can I buy one?

I've always wondered if maybe I should just get some better pickups for my Ibanez, but I'm not exactly sure which ones I'd go with, and while I've done plenty of work on small electronics and such (I used to make a killing fixing vapes) I've never put in new electronics in a guitar, so naturally I'm a little worried about messing it up beyond repair.

Sounds legit.

whats your signal chain? that amp(sim?) sounds crisp af

Exhorder ? wow they were an obscure 80s band I had their first album slaughter in the vatican. Surprised you younger guys have heard of them

The closest thing I have to that was a might mite tripe humbucker

Sounds decent 🎉

Btw, do you know if it’s possible to get one of those Solar fret thingies (I wouldn’t quite call it a wrap) that is on your Washburn? Do you know of other brands that make a similar design? aim curious if there’s a difference between a traditional FretWrap vs. one of those thingies. FretWrap sells a little block to go under the strings to help with overtones without muting open strings. Then all make a massive thing for bass that looks like a larger version of your Solar thingie, but it goes near the bridge to create a palm muting thump. I never saw a thingie like Solar’s, so I’m curious what the difference is and why you’d choose that over other available products or vice versa. Maybe it’s a good future video topic to compare all these products and show the purposes, differences, and which brands work best depending on the guitar being used (ie: guitar vs bass and acoustic vs electric). I never saw a video showing all the available products and really demonstrating which are best and why you’d want to use each.

Sounded fine to me.

Warman Drivetrain quad rail. 28k ohms. Only found 1 video seems very clean with good tone. Can't find the comparison video any more. The Ali express sux in comparison.

I actually own a few of these. I even a-b'd them against some other pickups I have, including the Railhammer Anvil, the Lace Drop and Gain, the Lace D3 Sabertooth, the Bare Knuckle Painkiller, the Lundgren M6, and the Seymour Duncan Nazgul. This little quad rail sounded better than all of those.

Good at the gates sounding 😁😁

Link?👀👀

song in testing?

Ohms are a perfectly fine way to measure pickup output. /0/ ''It's not like the pickup manufacturers use it as a QC step'' ///

why not wax pot it?. it would be a good video to illustrate whether it improves the pu, or not. cheers.

All Aliexoress pickups i've tried has been total carbage! Allthough those cost nothing better just invest for second hand Duncans or Dimarzios if your'e on a budget!

its got 3 blades its like a marshall that go's to 11

I have three of those which i got on Amazon for $15 ea. mine measure at 18.5 K ohms average and sound good in my 'Strat'.based build..

Dimarzio Super Distortion is not the hottest one. X2N used to be the hottest, but I've even encountered pickups with 20k+ Ohm... Gets so muddy for me

Has anyone experimented to combine two singlecoil size humbuckers in pararel? :D

Sorry, but the true moral from this story is: Dont buy anything ever from ali-express or temu...!!!😅