78 Model Bridge
The Seymour Duncan ‘78 Model humbucker delivers warm crunch with biting leads and overtone laden tapped runs.
In the late 70s, Seymour Duncan was well known
as the go-to guy for players that wanted something custom. Sometime in
‘78, Eddie Van Halen gave him a P.A.F. to experiment with, along with
instructions to rewind it with the intent to enhance the reproduction of
artificial harmonics and “hot wind” a little for some extra “juice”.
The Seymour Duncan ‘78 Model humbucker is the
result of that experiment. Loaded with an Alnico 2 magnet and wound to
the exact same hot specs as that original P.A.F. rewind, the ‘78’s
magnet and output combination lends itself to a warm crunch with biting
leads and overtone laden tapped runs. While the ‘78 Model was not the
final destination for Eddie, it offers players the opportunity to
revisit a waypoint in the early days of his legendary pursuit of the
ultimate tone.
If you’re a player who demands a
high-performance tone and wants the classic hard rockin’ rhythm crunch,
articulate picked harmonics for your tapped solos and whammy bar
acrobatics, the ‘78 Model just may be your ticket.
DCR: Bridge 9k
Magnet: Alnico 2
Cable: 4c Shielded
Type: Passive
59 Model Neck
Summary
A vintage-voiced, extremely versatile neck pickup that pairs well with most bridge humbuckers.
Description
The ’59 Model neck pickup is one of our most popular pickups
because it’s so versatile. It’s designed in the spirit of the original
P.A.F. humbuckers of the 1950s, with sweet sustain, full-sounding
chords, clear and bright attack, but we’ve made a few refinements to
slightly modernize the design and make it more adaptable to different
styles.
The ’59 has a full low end
which is great for adding character to your clean sounds and sustain to
your leads. The high end is slightly boosted for improved pick-attack
clarity and the mids are a little scooped for an open, smooth sound
that’s great for preserving the clarity of the individual notes in a
chord. Play softly and the mids and highs seem to fade back, but pick
hard and the note will be confident and clear. There isn’t a genre that
the ’59 can’t work within. It pairs nicely with a high output bridge
humbucker like the JB or Custom but is equally at home with more
moderate pickups like the ’59 bridge. And it’s a popular choice for
those with humbucker-routed Telecasters as well. And if you order a
four-conductor version for coil splitting, its single coil mode is
crystal clear.
The ’59
Model neck pickup is wound on Seymour’s Leesona 102 pickup winding
machine, the very one that was used in the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo,
MI in the 1950s. It comes standard with a long-legged nickel silver
bottom plate, vintage single conductor braided push back lead wire and
no logo.
Output
- DCR:7.6
- Magnet:Alnico 5
- Cable:4c Braided Shield
