Classic Paf & Bluesy Strat
This set combines neck and bridge TRS4 Alnico II Blues strat pickups with our best-selling AC2 bridge humbucker in white, with wider F-spacing.
Perfect for a warm, bluesy strat sound but still with a classic PAF bite in the bridge.
AC2 Alnico II Humbucker:
The Alnico II Classic is a superb humbucker for guitars that need more warmth, fullness and sustain.
The earliest Gibson Patent-Applied-For (or “PAF”) pickups used a range of magnets, but PAFs made with Alnico II have always held a special place in many a guitarist’s heart.
If you have ever heard someone describe a PAF as “flute-like” or “more like a single coil than a humbucker” – that’s the Alnico II working its magic.
At higher gain settings, the Alnico II Classic really nails the fluid distortion sound of players like Slash, who use the tighter, fizzier tones available from the bridge for rock rhythm work.
TRS4 Alnico II Single Coil:
Perfect for Blues and Jazz, thiese pickups offer players touch-sensitive and sweet clean tones, without boomy bass notes or harsh trebles. Adding some overdrive reveals the smooth musicality and sustain that Alnico II offers. Scatterwound with single gauge AWG 42 wire.
The mid pickup is reverse wound for hum-cancelling operation in positions 2 and 4, and the pickups feature a calibrated wind for better volume balance across all 5 positions.
