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Wide Range Pups with 4 conductors?

Hi Guys,

Looking for some fender style wide range humbuckers that I can coil split. Anyone got any suggestions or recommendations (preferably not at "fender" prices)?

GEAR:
  • Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler
  • TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 Reverb
  • Blank slot

The wide range doesn't have a distinct screw and slug coil sharing a bar magnet at opposite poles. The screws and slugs ARE the magnets.

If you currently own a fender with wide ranges and its not a custom shop, artist signature model or AVRI then the pickups are not actually wide range buckers. They're regular paf type humbuckers with the screws and slugs split between coils which are epoxied into a wide range housing. The coils are not oversized, the single magnet is an alnico or ferrite bar and the screws and slugs are steel. If that applies to you and you like the sound then you can put any 4 conductor humbucker with similar specs in there and get splitting although a new pick guard will probably be required to mount them.

If you need real wide ranges look up Creamery. It's a boutique shop so I'm pretty sure if you ask nicely he can make you a custom set with 4 conductors and 12 cunife screws for a small upcharge. I would definitely want adjustable poles on all my strings when using 1 coil. Or all flat poles, but then why use wimpy cunife magnetsover alnico rods?

Here's some detailed info on the Wide Range:

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GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Cheers dude! For a bit of context, this is all for a custom guitar I'm building myself. I've acquired a taste for the wide range bucker sound from various guitars I've tried and bands I follow. Those creamery ones look pretty promising, so I'll have to have an investigate.

GEAR:
  • Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler
  • TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 Reverb
  • Blank slot

I can't speak from personal experience but they're well regarded pickups.

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp