The Super Distortion® S offers the performance of the famous Super Distortion® in a humbucking Strat® bridge direct replacement-size pickup. We've built in the same blend of power and tone that made the original Super Distortion® the worldwide standard for high-output humbuckers.    We also tweaked the sound to take into account the fact that the Super Distortion® S will be installed in the classic slanted bridge position. The new model has 4-conductor wiring for parallel humbucking and split-coil modes, and makes a great bridge position combination with the Pro Track™, The Chopper™, and Fast Track 1™.   SPECIFICATIONS Recommended For : Bridge position in solid body guitars, can also be used in neck and middle. Quick Connect : No Wiring : 4 Conductor Magnet : Ceramic Resistance : 13.18 Kohm Year of Introduction : 2005

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If you’re a serious traditional Strat® player, you probably won’t want to know about pickups with side-by-side coils. But if you’re the player who’s up for something more modern with no 60-cycle hum, string drop-outs or sustain-killing magnet pull, we designed The Cruiser® for you.    Harmonic overtones are right where you expect them to be from a “true” single-coil, and the mid-range is open and vocal-sounding. It’s hotter than the traditional single-coil, and the bass strings have a bit more chunk; this is an excellent pickup to combine with medium-output humbuckers, and it maintains its tonal identity with high-gain amps and multiple effects.   FEATURES Recommended For : Neck position with DP187, or neck and middle with higher output bridge pickup or full-size humbucker. Quick Connect : No Wiring : 4 Conductor Magnet : Ceramic Resistance : 3.13 Kohm Year of Introduction : 1994

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The DiMarzio Evolution humbucking pickup gives you plenty of output and rich tone, and now Live Music offers it to you! Originally developed for legendary guitarist Steve Vai, the Evolution features 4-conductor wiring, ceramic magnets, and DiMarzio's patented dual-resonance configuration, which produces more harmonic overtones than conventional humbuckers.    A great pickup for pushing your amp to its full tonal potential, this pickup is ideal for high-octane live performance applications - while giving you plenty of definition for the studio, too. Take your axe's performance to the next level with the Evolution!   FEATURES Color: Black F spacing,  Type: Neck position humbucker Wiring: 4-conductor Magnet: Ceramic Output: 294 DC resistance: 13.04 Tone guide: Treble - 6.5; Mid - 6; Bass - 6   SPECIFICATIONS Type:Humbucker Active/Passive:Passive Magnet Material:Ceramic Position:Neck Number of Conductors:4 Number of Strings:6

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The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 was a watershed event in American music. When it was over, the world had heard and felt the sound of a Strat® in the hands of a master. Single-coils in 1967 were bright and very clean. And, of course, they hummed.    We've captured the classic bright and clean sound but totally eliminated the hum with our patented Area™ technology. We've also reduced magnet pull by 40% for improved sustain and clarity. The Area 67™ has the chime of 60s pickups, and the 2 and 4 positions are light, bright and quack-happy.   Strat® pickups in the late 1960s used full-strength Alnico 5 magnets. The patented magnetic field of the Area™ models is more efficient and focused than it is on “true” single-coils, which allows us to use Alnico 2 instead. There's much less magnet pull, but no loss of output.   This is a major advantage in the neck and middle positions, where sustain and intonation can both suffer if the strings are exposed to strong magnetic fields. In the bridge position, the patented technology of the Area 67™ produces a sound that's very bright but not brittle.     SPECIFICATIONS Recommended For: All positions, especially neck and middle Quick Connect: No Wiring: 4 Conductor Magnet: Alnico 2 Resistance: 5.86 Kohm Year of Introduction: 2008

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We believe the Area 58™ and Area 61™ are a major step forward in the performance of hum-canceling Strat® replacement pickups. The new technology that went into these models has allowed us to make a similar advance with Telecaster® replacement pickups.    The Area T™ Neck has the combination of clarity and warmth that Telecaster® players have always sought, and the new technology allows us to include a vintage Tele® cover with no sacrifice in sound quality or power.   The contrast between a warm neck pickup tone and a biting bridge pickup sound is a Tele® hallmark, but it's hard to achieve if the neck pickup is muddy. The Area T™ Neck Model has a very smooth tone, but its ability to remain clear even with heavy overdrive is an essential quality of Area design.    The Area T™ was designed to work with 250K controls, but treble response and output can be increased by using 500K volume and tone controls or tweaked further with a 250K volume and the EP1202 1 Megohm tone control.   SPECIFICATIONS Recommended For: Neck position Quick Connect: No Wiring: 4 Conductor Magnet: Alnico 2 Resistance: 7.83 Kohm Year of Introduction: 2007  

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Designed to match the sound and aesthetics of the UtoPIA Neck and Bridge for a modern-looking single coil, the satin gold-plated UtoPIA Middle pickup features the same etched pattern as the laser-cut Neck and Bridge pickups.   The UtoPIA Middle can add some chime to any guitar with a lifeless single coil. Having a healthy amount of treble, the UtoPIA Middle can provide the “quack” in the 2nd and 4th position when placed between the UtoPIA Neck and Bridge humbuckers.   Available in F-spacing only.   SPECIFICATIONS Recommended For : Middle position Quick Connect : No Wiring : 2 Conductor Magnet : Alnico 5 Resistance : 13.32 kOhm Year of Introduction : 2020

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  The DiMarzio PAF 36th Anniversary humbucking electric guitar pickup is all about nailing that vintage humbucker tone. With a design based off of the tone of Larry DiMarizo's own 1959 Les Paul's pickups, the PAF 36th Anniversary is engineered to be smooth but never muddy.    And Live Music players love how it performs equally as well in the neck or bridge position. Get that vintage PAF pickup tone with the modern reliability of updated manufacturing processes with the DiMarzio PAF 36th Anniversary electric guitar humbucking pickup.   FEATURES Humbucking pickup offers true PAF tone Color: Cream Standard spacing,  Wiring: 4 Conductor Magnet: Alnico 5 Output mV: 250 DC Resistance: 7.31 Kohm   SPECIFICATIONS Type:Humbucker Active/Passive:Passive Magnet Material:Alnico 5 Position:Bridge, Neck Number of Conductors:4 Number of Strings:6

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This pickup started a sound revolution. Replacement pickups simply didn’t exist before the invention of the Super Distortion in the early Seventies. The Super Distortion (and its original 3-conductor version, the Dual Sound) was the first pickup specifically designed to kick a tube amp into total overdrive, and is still the standard by which all other high-output pickups are measured.    The Super Distortion has a perfect blend of power and tone: both single-notes and chords jump out of the amp and fill the room (or the track) with a wall of sound. The balance of tones is classic — thick, boosted mids, big lows and fat highs.    This is the sound you’ve heard for over three decades on platinum records, from players as varied as Ace Frehley, Al Di Meola, and Paul Gilbert. It’s also versatile: 4-conductor wiring allows instant access to Strat-like split and series-parallel modes. Discover what thousands of great players know: the Super Distortion is the best all ’round high-power pickup ever made.   FEATURES Humbucker Standard-spacing  High-output pickup Best for solidbody guitars Generally used in the bridge position Great as a neck pickup with lower-gain amplifiers 4-conductor wiring Ceramic magnets Output: 425 DC resistance: 13.68   SPECIFICATIONS Type:Humbucker Active/Passive:Passive Magnet Material:Ceramic Position:Bridge, Neck Number of Conductors:4 Number of Strings:6

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The Gravity Storm™ Neck & Bridge Model pickups were designed for Steve Vai, and are the next step in his pickup evolution. The pickups are named after a song on his album, Steve Vai:    The Story of Light. Steve used to describe pickup sounds in terms of specific frequency responses. Now he describes them as flavor and texture.    The flavor of The Gravity Storm™ Neck model is sweet and warm, but the texture has an edge to it. It has the depth of a humbucker with some of the bite of a single-coil.   SPECIFICATIONS Recommended For    Neck; can be used in bridge. Quick Connect    No Wiring    4 Conductor Magnet    Ceramic Resistance    12.56 Kohm

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It's not difficult to make a vintage single-coil pickup that's clean and bright, but not so easy if you also want the high strings to sound sweet above the 12th fret. The True Velvet™ was designed to make this happen by tuning the coil to a frequency range that’s bright but not thin.    We combined this with a magnet stagger specifically designed to enhance string balance, which produces great clarity, even with full chords. The True Velvet™ Neck and Middle models have the same specs except for reverse polarity on the middle pickup for hum cancellation in the 2 and 4 positions.    The True Velvet™ Middle comes standard with hand-ground magnets and vintage cloth-covered wire.   SPECIFICATIONS Recommended For : Middle Position Quick Connect : No Wiring : 2 Conductor Magnet : Alnico 5 Resistance : 6.21 Kohm Year of Introduction : 2008

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Gojira guitarist and lead vocalist Joe Duplantier favors the tonality and nuances of a vintage PAF®. Joe had specific requirements based on adjustments made in his Silver Cord Recording Studio.   First and foremost, he wanted a passive pickup that was vintage-sounding. For Joe, it’s all about the dynamic; he wants people to hear what he’s doing on the strings with his hands and the pick. He feels that’s the part of the chain that adds the spirit, soul, and life to the sound and prevents it from being flat.   Most of Joe’s riffs are on the bridge pickup, and he says it needs to sound “killer.” The Fortitude™ Bridge is very precise, very sharp, and Joe can get all sorts of percussive sounds with it.   The Fortitude™ Bridge is based on the PAF® 36th Anniversary Bridge with a few modifications. The clarity of a low output humbucker allows it to cut through with different tunings and high gain. Joe wanted the pickup to have a boost at 160Hz of about 1.5db, a touch more low-end, and a notch down around 500/600Hz. The Fortitude™ Bridge features vintage tone with a twist.   Joe suggested calling the pickup Fortitude because “it’s simple, it’s honest, it’s straight to the point, and it’s strong.”   Recommended for Bridge position for all solid body, hollow, and semi-hollow body guitars.   FEATURES Maintains the vintage PAF® quality, yet produces some low-end muscle as you hit the strings harder Vintage-style humbucker that can step out of the box 4 Conductor Alnico 5 magnet 9.54 Kohm resistance Output: 145 Bass: 6.0 Middle: 5.5 Treble: 4.5   SPECIFICATIONS Pickup Position:    Bridge Pickup Type:    Humbucker Magnet Material:    Alnico Active/Passive:    Passive Weight:    2 lbs

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