Description
The Imperium™ Neck (DP271F) was born from Revocation guitarist Dave Davidson’s demand for a pickup that doesn’t need distortion to sound convincing. Dave’s playing jumps between blistering lead runs and glassy clean passages, so this neck humbucker was voiced to handle both without compromise — full, rounded lows and top end that stays articulate instead of turning to mush.
Dave also wanted his six-string and seven-string rigs to sound identical live, so the Imperium Neck was tuned to match its seven-string sibling as closely as possible. That means no jarring tonal shift when he switches guitars mid-set.
Under the hood it’s a ceramic-magnet design with output roughly in PAF® territory — Dave leans on his amp for saturation, not the pickup itself. That moderate output is exactly what lets this thing move fluidly from shredded solos to clean jazz voicings without sounding one-dimensional. There’s a smooth, almost liquid quality to the tone that still holds enough definition to contrast nicely against a hotter bridge pickup.
This F-spaced version is built for guitars with wider string spacing at the bridge, finished in black, and wired with 4-conductor leads for coil-splitting or phase experiments.
- Wiring: 4-conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 250 mV
- DC Resistance: 8.41 kOhm
- Year introduced: 2016
- Patent: 5,908,998
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