Description
Some players chase distortion, others chase touch — John Petrucci has spent his career refining both, and the LiquiFire is where that pursuit landed. Built through direct collaboration with Petrucci, this neck humbucker made its studio debut on Dream Theater’s “Black Clouds & Silver Linings” and has anchored his live rig ever since. He’s called it the best tone he’s had in the studio or on stage, which is a heavy claim from a player this particular about his sound.
What makes LiquiFire work is how it behaves at both ends of your amp’s gain range. Push it hard and it sings — sustained, vocal-like lead lines that don’t collapse into mush, with enough definition that fast runs stay articulate instead of blurring together. Back off to a clean or lightly dirty setting and it opens up into clear, well-separated chord voicings, so rhythm work doesn’t get lost in a wash of low end. That dual personality is exactly what Petrucci wanted: a neck pickup that could carry both the shred and the sensitivity.
This version is wound for F-spaced routing and finished in black, ready to drop into guitars built around that bridge spacing.
- Neck position humbucker designed with John Petrucci
- F-Space configuration
- Black finish
- Tuned for singing, sustained lead tone under high gain
- Clear, articulate chord voicing on clean settings
If your neck pickup goes muddy the moment you dig in, this is the fix Petrucci himself needed.
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