Seymour Duncan Saturday Night Special Humbucker - Neck Gold

Neck: The Saturday Night Special is a vintage humbucker inspired pickup with plenty of bite for overdriven late 70s tones, but without the ‘wooliness’ of traditional vintage neck pickups. Bridge: Meet the Saturday Night Special bridge humbucker. This pickup is made with Alnico 4 magnets to give a balanced, vintage tonality. Think late 70s arena rock tones with full-bodied cleans and bold, vocal-like overdriven leads. Set: The Saturday Night Special humbucker set uses Alnico 4 magnets to deliver that authentic 70s sound. Now available with 3 new covers: Black Powdercoat, Raw Nickel Tortoiseshell & Raw Nickel Radiator.

Details Neck: The Saturday Night Special neck pickup bridges the output level gap between vintage 50s and modern humbuckers. It is a classic-voiced pickup that uses Alnico 4 magnets to create that legendary 70s arena rock sound. The cleans are warm and musical while the overdriven tones cut through without being harsh in the highs or cloudy in the lows. The Saturday Night Special is made in Santa Barbara, California. It comes standard with four-conductor wiring, maple spacer and short mounting legs. Available with nickel covers, gold covers, black uncovered bobbins and zebra uncovered bobbins. This pairs perfectly with the Saturday Night Special bridge humbucker. It is also available as a matched set. Bridge: This classic-voiced bridge pickup uses an Alnico 4 magnet for classic fat tones straight out of the late 70s. These pickups bridge the output level gap between the vintage 50s and modern humbuckers. They deliver a clarity that is more aggressive and versatile than a vintage humbucker, and bring plenty of bite without the compression of a high gain pickup. The Saturday Night Special is made in Santa Barbara, California. It comes standard with four-conductor wiring, maple spacer and short mounting legs. Available with nickel covers, gold covers, black uncovered bobbins and zebra uncovered bobbins. This pairs perfectly with the Saturday Night Special neck humbucker. It is also available in a matched set. Set: Unlike traditional humbuckers, the Saturday Night Special humbuckers are voiced to be a little hotter and fatter in the bridge position, and a little clearer and less “woolly” in the neck. They’re more aggressive than 50s-style models but without the compression of most high gain pickups. These bridge the output level gap between vintage 50s and modern humbuckers, making this pickup set perfect for replicating those legendary late-70s arena rock tones. The Saturday Night Special Set is made in Santa Barbara, California. They come standard with four-conductor wiring, maple spacer and short mounting legs. Available with nickel covers, gold covers, black uncovered bobbins and Zebra uncovered bobbins.

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