Description
The Twang King neck pickup wasn’t built to be a museum-piece copy of an old Broadcaster or Telecaster unit. DiMarzio studied what made those vintage tones great, then engineered something that responds even more dramatically to how you actually play. Back off and it stays soft and quiet; lean into your pick attack and it opens up into a louder, punchier voice with more headroom than a typical vintage-style single-coil offers.
That dynamic range comes from controlled-tension coil winding paired with specialized wire and magnets that are hand-calibrated rather than mass-installed. An Alnico 5 magnet delivers the warmth and clarity Tele players chase, while double wax-potting keeps things dead quiet under stage lights and hot amp gain u2013 no microphonic squeal creeping into your signal.
This particular listing is the neck-position model, finished with a black metal cover, and it’s designed specifically to live in the standard Tele neck slot.
- Position: Neck (standard Telecaster placement)
- Magnet: Alnico 5
- DC Resistance: 6.22 kOhm
- Wiring: 2-conductor
- Quick Connect: No
- Cover: Black metal
- Introduced: 1995
Drop it into a Tele that needs more expressive range, and let your pick hand do the talking.
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