Pearly Gates Single Coil Sized Humbucker For Strat

It has an alnico ii bar magnet and is just that bit brighter a little hotter and will help you tease a few more harmonics from it.

Pearly gates single coil sized humbucker for strat. If you want to go with a hotter humbucker like anything in the custom series you re going to need a pretty potent single coil to keep up like a quarter pound staggered or hot for strat. I really like the pearly gates humbucker in strats. Seymour duncan custom shop pearly gates strat bridge pickup features. The original influence for its character and name is the bridge humbucker from zz top legend billy gibbons 1959 pearly gates les paul.

Getting started with seymour duncan pearly gates coil splitting. At 11 4k in the bridge and 9 8k in the neck middle these are the perfect pickups for true grit. It sounds great splits well and blends nicely with single coils. The duckbucker strat is a vintage output single coil sized humbucker that is specifically voiced for total strat quack hence the name.

You might want to even consider going with a single sized humbucker to make your neck and middle positions just as fat and powerful as your bridge. Those legendary early gibson lps featured paf humbuckers that are regarded by tonehounds to be the cream of pickups but the seymour duncan spin on the design offers more output to boost your overdrive. In general a vintage output humbucker like the 59 or the pearly gates will match pretty well with a moderate output single coil like the custom staggered. I recently realised that a high output humbucker isn t the best match for typical low output single coils so i have put a seymour duncan p g in this strat.

Modeled after the bridge humbucker in billy gibbons 1959 les paul the pearly gates puts a bit of extra treble on the vintage p a f. Humbucker pickups such as the pearly gates are usually wired so that they use both coils at the same time. At 17 4k dc resistance with an alnico ii the pickup still retains the guitar s natural tele attributes but gives enough power to play everything from country to hard rock. Single coil sized humbucker direct replacement for stratocaster bridge position pickup slightly overwound coils alnico ii magnet 4 conductor hookup cable white pickup cover with seymour duncan logo wax potted 11 4k dc resistance.

I have a highway 1 strat with a 59 in the neck duckbucker in the middle and a pg trembucker in the bridge and it really gets some killer rock tones. The jb is cool as well in a strat. Devised to deliver alnico tone in a small package the pearly gates for strat has two slightly overwound coils hugging an alnico ii magnet for raunchy hard rock and blues. When you coil split the pickup you use a switch to shut off one of the coils making it perform like a single coil pickup.

Product description for esquire players or those looking for a versatile alnico magnet single coil sized humbucker there s nothing better than the pearly gates for tele.