Description
When we decided to go for the vintage Tele® sound, we knew we had to do more than just copy a forty-year-old design. We wanted pickups that captured the best elements of our favorite Broadcaster® and Telecaster® sounds — and then some. The Twang King™ pickups have unequalled response to pick attack: light playing produces a soft, quiet tone and hard picking creates a harder, louder, and more dynamic sound than any comparable single-coil. We accomplished this with a combination of controlled-tension coil-winding, special wire, and hand-calibrated magnets. The neck pickup comes with a chrome cover, and the bridge model has a ferrous base plate. Both pickups are wax-potted twice for squeal-free performance.
We didn’t model the Twang Kingâ„¢ bridge after a specific original. Instead, we combined the best tonal qualities of several Broadcaster® and Telecaster® pickups from the 50s and early 60s. We were aiming for a balance between big, clean lows and fatter-sounding highs, and we wanted the pickup to be able to handle a very wide dynamic range, so the sound would clean up with soft picking and really open up with a harder attack.
Recommended for bridge position
Features
- Combination of controlled-tension coil-winding, special wire, and hand-calibrated magnets.
- Big, clean lows and highs
- 2 Conductor
- Alnico 5 magnet
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8.07 Kohm resistance
- Output: 198
- Bass: 4.0
- Middle: 4.0
- Treble: 8.0
Item shown: DiMarzio DP173BK Twang King Bridge Pickup
Model #: DP173BK
UPC: 663334010154
shawn.bragg (verified owner) –
Pretty good sounding Broadcaster style telecaster pickup at a reasonable price. I used it to replace a Chopper T pickup in the bridge of a 69′ Thinline I bought second-hand. Gives me the traditional sound I like!