Sea Smoke - vintage style set (dog ear staple)
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Ā£95.00* Excludes tax charged for international shipments
Product Description
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This is the staple version of our popular Sea Smoke P90 set. This combines theĀ Sea Smoke wind with alnico 2 'staple' magnets. These magnets give the pickups a brighter, cleaner and more delicate tone. Please check the standard Sea Smoke pickup page for soundclips.
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This pickup set was designed from customer demand!
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Having seen the number of requests and the outstanding feedback from this pickup set, it seems silly not to make it an official set.
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We've had many customers approaching us asking for a vintage styled P90 set that could be found all over the 1950s-1970s. It had to be clean, articulate, mellow and have just enough output to kick a valve amp into beautiful overdrive when pushed, but not any more, so that headroom is preserved.
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Starting from the Murky Horizon neck pickup, which was already in the ballpark of what we were aiming to achieve here, we already had a head start. AsĀ clean and low gain work were (presumably) going to be the primary uses for this set, the Murky Horizon neck could be a bit 'spiky' at either end of the EQ spectrum for these styles. This is great for clarity, but when you're playing clean and want a singing sustain reminicent of the good old days, it just won't cut it. We loaded it with alnico 2 magnets to smooth off the rough edges.
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The Murky Horizon bridge is miles away from what this pickup set was made to recreate, so that design was tossed to one side. A new bridge build was in order. A vintage wind was created, a touch hotter than the neck to balance, but no more than was necessary to retain all the vintageĀ goodness. To curb off a little bit of the excessive highs of the vintage wind, and to provide the singing sustain to match the neck, alnico 2 magnets were used once more.
Specs (neck/bridge):
Resistance: 8.2k/8.8k
Magnets: alnico 2 staple magnets
Output wire: Braided single conductor
Spacing: 50mm/52mm
Wax potted
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Supplied with mounting screws