Description
If PAFs feel too polite and modern high-gain humbuckers feel too squashed, the Saturday Night Special set lands right in the middle. Seymour Duncan built these around Alnico 4 magnets to chase that specific late-70s arena-rock character — bigger and beefier than a 50s-style pickup, but still open enough to breathe under a cranked amp.
The two pickups aren’t voiced identically. The bridge is pushed hotter and fatter for riffs that need to shove air, while the neck stays clearer and tighter so leads don’t turn into mud. That asymmetry is the whole point: you get real gain and grind without the compressed, one-note feel that a lot of hot-output sets fall into.
Seymour Duncan winds these in Santa Barbara on a genuine Leesona machine — the same type used to wind the original PAFs back in Kalamazoo — so the construction lineage is as authentic as the tone. Each pickup in this set ships with four-conductor wiring for coil-split/series-parallel wiring options, plus a maple spacer and short mounting legs for a clean, secure install.
- Alnico 4 magnets for vintage-adjacent, late-70s punch
- Asymmetric voicing: hotter/fatter bridge, clearer/less woolly neck
- Four-conductor wiring for flexible switching setups
- Wound in Santa Barbara, CA on an original-style Leesona machine
- Includes maple spacer and short mounting legs
Available as bridge, neck, or matched set, in black uncovered bobbins, zebra uncovered bobbins, gold cover, or nickel cover.
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