Description
Some of the most iconic tones in blues rock weren’t planned — they were happy accidents. Legend has it that one guitarist’s signature sound came from a humbucker with its magnet installed the wrong way round. The Seymour Duncan Green Magic Neck pickup takes that fluke and turns it into a feature.
Play it on its own and you get exactly what you’d expect from a vintage-flavored Alnico II humbucker: warm, rounded neck tone with plenty of character. But flip to the middle position alongside a Green Magic bridge pickup, and the reversed magnet throws the two units out of phase. The result is that thin, hollow, almost single-coil-like clarity that made late-’60s blues rock guitarists sound like they were playing something otherworldly.
It’s a clever way to get an extra, genuinely distinct voice out of your guitar without touching your wiring philosophy or adding switches — just swap in the set and let the magnet do the strange work it was born to do.
- Type: Humbucker
- Position: Neck
- Active/Passive: Passive
- Magnet Material: Alnico II
- Number of Conductors: 4-wire plus shield
- DC Resistance: 7.7K
- Connectivity: Soldered
- Number of Strings: 6
- Covering: Uncovered
- Color: Black
- Manufacturer Part Number: 11104-15-B
Best paired with the matching Green Magic bridge pickup to unlock the full out-of-phase effect this set was designed around.
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