Pearly Gates Single Coil Sized Humbucker For Strat

At 11 4k in the bridge and 9 8k in the neck middle these are the perfect pickups for true grit.

Pearly gates single coil sized humbucker for strat.

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. Get the grit with seymour duncan s custom shop pearly gates strat. 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. 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.

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. Seymour duncan custom shop pearly gates strat bridge pickup features. Getting started with seymour duncan pearly gates coil splitting. 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.

It s designed to be wired in parallel to give you a vintage sparkly single coil tone without any hum and its unique split pole pattern with three pole pieces on each coil also contributes to the single coil like bounciness and snappy low end. 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. 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. I really like the pearly gates humbucker in strats.

The jb is cool as well in a strat. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. It sounds great splits well and blends nicely with single coils.

The original influence for its character and name is the bridge humbucker from zz top legend billy gibbons 1959 pearly gates les paul.