It sounds great splits well and blends nicely with single coils.
Pearly gates single coil sized humbucker for strat.
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.
The jb is cool as well in a strat.
Humbucker pickups such as the pearly gates are usually wired so that they use both coils at the same time.
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.
Get the grit with seymour duncan s custom shop pearly gates strat.
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.
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.
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.
1 on the 250k pots.
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.
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.
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.
Getting started with seymour duncan pearly gates coil splitting.
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.
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 duckbucker strat is a vintage output single coil sized humbucker that is specifically voiced for total strat quack hence the name.
Seymour duncan custom shop pearly gates strat bridge pickup features.
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.
At 11 4k in the bridge and 9 8k in the neck middle these are the perfect pickups for true grit.
