Description
The Saturday Night Special set splits the difference between the polite chime of vintage 50s humbuckers and the compressed punch of modern high-output pickups. Alnico 4 magnets give it a push toward that unmistakable late-70s arena rock character — think big, driving riffs with just enough grit to bite back.
Seymour Duncan didn’t just chase a vintage spec sheet here; they voiced each position on purpose. The bridge pickup runs hotter and fatter than a traditional P.A.F., trading some of that vintage sparkle for extra push into your amp. The neck pickup goes the other direction, staying clearer and tighter instead of drifting into that woolly, undefined low end some vintage-style neck pickups suffer from. Run them together and you get an aggressive but articulate voice — hot enough to snarl, but never so compressed that pick dynamics disappear.
These are wound in Santa Barbara, California on an original Leesona winding machine — the same type used to build the first P.A.F.s back in Kalamazoo. Each pickup ships with four-conductor wiring for coil-split flexibility, a maple spacer, and short mounting legs, so you’re set up for splits, phase tricks, or straightforward series wiring depending on your build.
This particular listing is the black bobbin humbucker set, and it comes bundled with a free set of Ernie Ball EB2627 Beefy Slinky strings — a solid excuse to string up fresh the same day you drop these in.
- Alnico 4 magnets for late-70s-style output and grit
- Bridge voiced hotter/fatter, neck voiced clearer/tighter than vintage P.A.F.s
- Wound in Santa Barbara on an original Leesona machine
- Four-conductor wiring, maple spacer, short legs
- Includes free Ernie Ball EB2627 Beefy Slinky strings
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