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7-String Imperial Humbucker
Item #: 10-411
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$200.00
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Product Details
Our 7-string Imperial® humbucker ohm readings are higher than the 6-string versions due to longer coils, but overall performance will be the same. Pole spacing center-to-center of the two outside poles is 2.412", height adjustment location is 3.5" center-to-center, and overall size is 3.05" by 1.425". The short leg base plate is approximately .25" deep and foot shape may vary from to square to rectangular. Sold as singles or as sets and available in double-black exposed bobbins only. Single conductor braided shield lead wire and 4-conductor lead wire is available.
Avg. DC: Neck 8.5K, Bridge 9.4K (Read about DC resistance)
Recommended Potentiometers: 500k
Recommended Capacitor: 0.022μF
Pickup Dimensions
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2 Total Reviews
Axe is gone, but the pickup is here to stay...
bdeluxe
Location: Ann Arbor, MI U.S.A.
Date: Apr44l 10, 2024
Without a doubt the best sounding 7String pickup for my application. Although the guitar was sold, I held onto the Low-wind Imperial and installed it in my new Unger custom 7, in tandem with a Carlos soundboard transducer. 1+1+4. Beyond belief how great the sound is. It's a total treat when you can just focus on the music because the sound is right there for you. Kudos!
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Imperial Low-Wind in a Laminated Jazz Box
Brian Delaney
Location: Ann Arbor, MI USA
Date: January 5, 2021
I have a 1997 Ibanez AF207 16" 7 String Jazz Box, which build-wise is an excellent instrument. But the stock pickup/harness left a lot to be desired. I felt the electronics were short-changing the instrument-- too many low mids- unfocused sounding and just not very musical. Remembering back a few years, I had encountered a guitar with Imperials and was really kind of shocked(in a good way) by the sound-- not the usual "Mud Fest" that some HBs impart. So I remembered that and when it came time to gut the electronics in the Ibanez. I chose a Low-Wind 7 String Imperial. Once installed-- with CTS and Alpha 500Kpots, new real jack, treble bleed, and .022 cap, I could not be happier. Why? Some pickups are wound in a way where they telegraph the actual sound of the guitar through the coils. This pickups is just such a creature. If I put the Volume on 3 and the Tone on 6 and play fingerstyle Jazz, not only does it sound very "acoustic", but I can also hear both hands on the guitar AND the sound of the top. Which to me, is pretty amazing for a laminated-top, mass-production axe. If I turn it up, it gets that very Trad Kenny Burrell-esque timbre-- fat, but not just 'pickup-fat"-- there are a lot of other artifacts in the signal. For me, this is a preferable thing-- more information in the signal means more nuance . So I'm really very pleased with the choice I made-- it transformed an electronically "hobbled" instrument into a fully-realized very useable tool for me. I couldn't be happier, frankly. The only downside of this purchase is that 7 String pickups are apparently only available in one string spacing width, which doesn't at all match the Ibanez, yet also doesn't affect the string-to-string balance in any tangible way. How is that?? Kudos for nailing the timbre for my desired musical goal.
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