Firebird
Item #: 10-404
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Product Details
Our Firebird® pickup may look like a mini-humbucker without poles, but it’s truly its own thing! The unique Firebird® is designed to sound closer to a fat single-coil than a full-size humbucker. Compared with a mini-humbucker, it features a brighter overall sound and a bass response that remains tight and defined noticeably longer. It also gives you less snarl and more spank. And, if you're looking for our Firebird pickup in a standard PAF-size humbucker, be sure to check out The Bird—same pickup, different size.
Avg. DC: Neck 6.1k, Middle 6.7k, Bridge 7.4k (Read about DC resistance)
Recommended Potentiometers: 500k
Recommended Capacitor: 0.022μF
Using one of our Soapbar/LP Deluxe mounting rings, our Firebird pickups can also be installed as direct drop-in replacements for guitars with standard P-90 soapbar routs.
Regarding the bridge position Firebird pickup.Despite our Firebird pickup being a humbucker, the bridge position pickup uses an inductance plate to raise the output and treble, which introduces a small amount of 60-cycle hum back into the signal. This is true of the original Firebird pickups as well. However, we have left the inductance plate off the neck position to provide a set of pickups with a better volume balance between positions. The neck position will have a lower noise floor like other, more common humbucker designs, where the bridge will have a small amount of 60-cycle hum introduced like a single coil pickup.
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Pickup Dimensions
Lollar Firebird Style Pickups
Demos of Lollar Firebird Style Pickups
Covers
Chrome
Nickel
Gold
Black Chrome
Lightly-aged Chrome
Lightly-aged Nickel
Lightly-aged Gold
Colors shown here may vary slightly from actual colors due to differences in computer monitors.
Mounting Options
Firebird/ Pickguard, Chrome
Firebird/ Pickguard, Black
Soapbar/LP Deluxe Ring, Black
Soapbar/LP Deluxe Ring, Cream
Soapbar/LP Deluxe Ring, White
Colors shown here may vary slightly from actual colors due to differences in computer monitors.
What They Are Saying
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8 Total Reviews
What a firebird is meant to be
Funky
Location: Sydney Australia
Date: July 7, 2025
I’ve had Lollars in my 2009 Gibson Firebird V for around a decade now(been lazy with the review).The older I get the more I love these pickups and seem to get more out of them everyday.If you have a firebird these are a must!
Recommended
Awesome Tele Neck P/U
Axe Doctor
Location: Spruce Pine, NC
Date: December 6, 2024
This pickup pairs extremely well with the Lollar Special T bridge. The Firebird pickup is clean, bright and has a single coil quality to it but with a fuller sound. I used 250K volume and tone pots with a .022uF tone cap. The Firebird pickup is bright enough to work with a 250K volume pot. SOunds so good. Sweet
Recommended
The imperfect, perfect pickup
Logan Payne
Location: Mn
Date: July 16, 2022
I’ve had this pickup for around a year in an hss Warmoth strat build (this pairs wonderfully with the 64’s). This pickup has changed my playing for the better all while having some incredible issues. Upon receiving the pickup, I thought it was broken. It hummed almost like a single coil, I could hear every time I moved the pickup switch, if the pick touched it it would make a loud pop through the speakers. I even had a sound guy one time tell me he could hear me speaking through my guitar channel, he thought it was cool anyways. When I confronted lollar about the issues they told me, that’s how it’s supposed to be. I was a little angry and wanted to send the pickup back, then I spent some time with it. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a touch sensitivity like this pickup has. It has all the midrange grit I could ever want while also being incredibly clear and blending perfectly with the other pickups. I found myself playing on the bridge even in the quietest parts of songs because I could control exactly what I wanted so well. Whatever I breathed into this pickup is exactly what it produced. The imperfection of this pickup is what makes it amazing. I don’t think you can get the perfect touch response, clarity, and grit without having the issues this pickup has. It’s a marvelous design and I am so happy lollar produces such a wonderful product, thank you!
Recommended
a beautiful pup
marcus
Location: VA
Date: May 31, 2020
a wonderful neck pickup with just the right balance for what I was looking for. VERY responsive to your touch and attack. You can pull out bright biteiness or nice full round notes just the same. I have it in the neck of a tele parts guitar with a Special T from 2017 in the bridge. Ash body, rw fb, middle of the road not too bright or dark sounding guitar. I tried a couple of different wiring options but after the first two, I quickly realized that 250k pots and regular ole wiring would probably be just fine. And it most definitely is. I'd even hesitate to throw it in a brighter guitar, but that's just my taste. Bottom line, it's fantastic.
Recommended
Believe the Hype
PDX Guitar Freak
Location: OR
Date: July 9, 2019
I recently purchased a new Firebird from Gibson's Original Collection. While the original pickups had a nice cut to them, as a prior reviewer stated, the pickups (in particular the bridge) had an unpleasant upper mid-range bump to it. After reading many people praise the Lollar pickups, I decided to give them a shot. The guitar was seriously transformed, and it is much sweeter and pleasant sounding now. No ugly upper mid bump anymore. The tone is also much tighter and cleaner (both with clean and overdriven tones). Clean tones have a nice jangle to them, but crank the gain and these pickups sing (very smooth lead tone!). I own over 20 guitars and this is now one of the best sounding of the bunch.
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The Most Articulate Pickups I Have Ever Played
MonTheKaine
Location: England
Date: May 28, 2019
Amazing pickups I bought to replace the stock pickups in my 2016 Gibson Firebird. Lightyears better than that original pups and the neck pickup in particular is one of the best tones I have ever heard. Real open and big sounding pickups. Cannot recommend enough!
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The BEST sound you can get for your Firebird
AR
Location: West Virginia
Date: May 4, 2019
I replaced the stock bridge (and will eventually do the neck) on my 2014 Firebird. If anyone out there plays modern Gibson 'birds, you'll know the stock pickups are ceramic, and have this really strange low-mid bump like you'd get from a 500T, but nowhere near the output to match the tone. This pickup (as well as replacement tuners for the stock gearless ones) took my Firebird from a studio-only guitar to my main axe. The bridge has all that great single-coily tone you want from a Firebird with that smoothness from the sudo-mini design. If I had a Peavey amp, I could do a perfect Allen Collins.
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FIREBIRD PICKUP FOR JAZZ
GV
Location: NorCal
Date: December 17, 2017
I have this pickup in the neck positionI’d have to describe as a clean, somewhat traditional jazz tone. Tight and focused sound, full of nuance, WARM! This is an incredible pickup !
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8 Total Reviews
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