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Are wide range pickups humbuckers?
The Fender Wide Range Humbucker is a humbucker guitar pickup, designed by Seth Lover for Fender in the early 1970s. This pickup was intended to break Fender’s image as a “single coil guitar company”, and to gain a foothold in the humbucker guitar market dominated by Gibson.
Are Fender humbuckers the same size as Gibson?
In other words, if you measure from the center of the high E pole piece to the center of the Low E pole piece, a Gibson spaced pickup will measure right around 50 millimeters. A pickup with Fender spacing will measure between 52 and 53 millimeters, depending on the pickup.
Can you split a Fender Wide Range Humbucker?
Wide Range Humbucker – 4-Way Wiring This allows you to split the coils for a true single coil tone or alternatively, have them wired up in series or parallel for a variety of unique tones, each with their own set of characteristics.
Can you put Gibson pickups in a Fender?
Today many builders are using a combination of Fender and Gibson style pickups in the same instrument for a variety of tonal variations. When using a Gibson style humbucker in a Fender type instrument, remember the string and pole spacing will be different.
How do I make my Fender sound like a Gibson?
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- Use an EQ pedal to take the emphasis off the treble and place it on the bass and mids.
- Use your neck pickup to produce a warmer and more mellow.
- Roll back the tone and volume controls to take away some of the Strat’s sharpness.
When did the Fender Wide Range pickup come out?
Original Wide Range pickups were available from 1971 and subsequently installed in the Deluxe, Custom and Thinline Telecasters as well as the Starcaster, ceasing production successively in 1979 when these models were discontinued. Fender Japan were the first to introduce a reissue in 1983, followed by the Made in Mexico version around 1998.
Is the Fender wide range a humbucker?
The Fender Wide Range is more of a combination between a Fender single coil and a Gibson humbucker than anything else. While similar in construction to the Gibson humbucker, the Wide Range features individual magnets as polepieces, like vintage Strat or Telecaster pickups.
What is a wide range pickup?
The Wide Range pickup was conceived to be sonically closer to Fender’s single coil pickups than Gibson humbuckers. Fender’s single coils use six magnetised pole pieces sitting vertically, while Gibson’s humbuckers use a long bar magnet at the pickup’s base with six metal slug pole pieces screwed vertically into a base plate.
When did the wide range humbucker stop being made?
The original Wide Range humbucker is truly a child of the 70s and will remain so, as its production ceased in 1979.