Description
Built for Mr. Big’s Paul Gilbert, the PG-13 Bridge (DP243) splits the difference between single-coil sparkle and full-humbucker beef. Because a mini humbucker reads a shorter length of string, you lose some of the muddy low-order harmonics that thicken up standard-size humbuckers, leaving a tone that’s brighter and more articulate without going thin.
Gilbert’s whole career runs on tonal versatility — acoustic-leaning ballads one minute, shredded arpeggios the next — so this pickup was voiced to keep up. The bridge version is wound hotter than its neck-position counterpart, adding bite and a bit more push when you dig in, while staying warm enough that it never turns brittle or ice-picky on the top end. Push your amp and it holds together with real harmonic content instead of collapsing into noise; power chords land with crunch and impact but stay musical rather than mean.
Pair it with the PG-13 Neck and you get that classic spread-out, slightly quacky in-between voice that works surprisingly well across blues, classic rock, and even modern metal rhythm tones. Roll off your distortion and kick in a flanger for Gilbert’s own sparkly, compressed lead sound — the ceramic magnet and 4-conductor wiring give you the headroom and flexibility to shape it your way.
- Wiring: 4-Conductor
- Magnet: Ceramic
- Output: 145 mV
- DC Resistance: 12.62 Kohm
- Year Introduced: 2017
- Patent: 4,501,185
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