Description
Some pickups chase output numbers; the SSV chases the sound your ears actually crave. Built by John Suhr’s team as the punchier, honkier sibling to the DSV, this humbucker is aimed squarely at players who want the real texture of a great vintage neck pickup without the compression that creeps in on hotter-wound units. Pick attack stays dynamic, chords stay articulate, and single-note lines keep their bite instead of collapsing into mush.
That character comes from decades of obsessive R&D rather than a spec sheet trick. Suhr has spent 30 years reverse-engineering what made the old-school humbuckers special, and the SSV is the neck-position result: open, snarly, and responsive to how hard you actually play.
This nickel-covered version gives you a classic look to match the classic wiring underneath – 4-conductor lead wire, so you’ve got the flexibility to run standard humbucker duty or wire up coil-splitting and phase tricks if your setup calls for it.
- Position: Neck
- DC Resistance: approximately 8K ohms
- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Cover: Nickel
Drop it into a Strat-style, Tele, or any humbucker-ready neck route and let it do what it was designed to do: sound like the pickups that started the whole obsession, minus the compromises.
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