BIRMINGHAM AC5 Birmingham, England meet Birmingham, Alabama!
This new humbucker set delivers classic British crunch and huge mids, but also splits to a killer Southern single coil sound.
The Birmingham takes the best of your favourite 70s tones and slams them into one great humbucker set.
Think Angus, Jimmy, Tony and the rest !
The bridge pickup is overwound by 5% to just under 9k, giving plenty of power, a prominent midrange, all while retaining chimey, detailed highs.
When split to a single coil or run in parallel, this pickup excels at single coil tones, without the massive volume drop that plague some humbuckers.
The neck pickup is underwound by 5% to just over 7k, offering great clarity, and ensuring this set has two distinct neck and bridge sounds.
The neck split sound is full, round and sustains well.
OPTIONS & SPACING
Covers: Available in black or zebra open coils, or with highly-polished gold or silver nickel covers.
Neck Polepiece Spacing: 50 mm spacing is standard, as measured from the center of the low E to the centre of the high E pole pieces: .
Bridge Polepiece Spacing: Black, White and Zebra Birmingham Bridge pickups are available in 50 mm and 52.4 mm spacings (F-spaced). Gold and Nickel covered pickups are only available in 50 mm spacing.
Baseplates: All Tonerider humbuckers are built with medium-length 9mm baseplate legs for easy installation in a wide variety of instruments.
Birmingham Neck | Birmingham Bridge | |
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Model | AC5N | AC5B |
Magnet | Alnico 5 Bar | Alnico 5 Bar |
DCR | 7.2k | 8.7k |
Inductance | 4.2H | 5.5H |
Hookup Wire | 4-Conductor | 4-Conductor |
Scatter | Medium | Medium |
Baseplate | Nickel Silver | Nickel Silver |
Year Introduced | 2019 | 2019 |