Take a vintage strat pickup, overwind it for a bigger sound and you have the SSL-5 Custom for Strat. Made using an Alnico V Magnet and with a 12.9k output, this single coil pickup has both the glassiness you'd expect but with much more power…think SRV or Dave Gilmour!
Hear this pickup: Clean Bridge, Bridge/Mid | Clean Neck/Mid, Neck | Dirty Bridge, Bridge/Mid | Dirty Neck/Mid, Neck
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application
High output true single-coil for warm instruments. Perfect for Texas blues rock, classic rock and heavy rock.
description
Though it looks like the SSL-1 and has that distinct vintage tone, the SSL-5's over-wound coil yields higher output, more sustain and great harmonics. The result is a pickup that rocks hard and cuts through the mix, but cleans up nicely when you back off the volume. Includes white cover.
complete setup
Calibrated set available with RW/RP middle pickup. Many players use an SSL-5 in the bridge position with vintage output pickups, like SSL-1's, in the neck and middle for tonal versatility.
guitars
For heavier and brighter-toned instruments with ash or alder bodies. Works well with maple or rosewood fingerboards.
available mods
Reverse wound, reverse polarity (RW/RP) middle pickups for hum canceling in positions "2" and "4" on the five-way switch. Tapped version for dual output levels. Left-hand magnet stagger. Available in 7-string.
players
Nick Lashley / Alanis Morissette & Mick Jagger, Rickey Medlocke & Mike Estes / Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yogi / Wallflowers
