Black Dog humbucker
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The Black Dog is an aggressive, throaty humbucker with deep bottom-end, muscular mids, smooth highs and more output than a vintage PAF.
The Black Dog humbucker is designed for players that need a vintage-voiced pickup with extra weight in the mid-range. Because we hand-wind with a modern polysol wire, the Black Dog is able to match the asymmetrical coils of The Mule while gaining additional output and grind. A stronger, richer mid and extended bass response lends itself to hot blues and hard rock tones without compromising clarity. Single note playing has plenty of weight behind each note with a solid high-end that sings when used with added preamp gain. Clean tones have depth and a full bodied ring to each string with excellent note separation in chords.
The Black Dog humbuckers are also particularly good at providing extra definition and punch to extended scale guitars. Seven string and baritone guitars benefit from better control of the highs and increased definition in the bass.
Available in all our open coil and covered custom finishes.
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APPLICATIONS
Blues, Garage, Punk, Grunge, Alternative, Classic Rock, Heavy Rock and Metal.SUITABILITY
Equally at home on any solid-body guitar and especially well suited to extended range guitars or any guitar lacking in mid range body.Specification
Position: Bridge DC Resistance: 9.4 kΩ Magnet: Alnico 5
Position: Neck DC Resistance: 7.7 kΩ Magnet: Alnico 5
FREQUENCY RESPONSE
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Bridge - Clean
Bridge - Lead
Bridge - Rhythm
Middle - Clean
Middle - Crunch
Middle - Classic Rock
Middle - Modern Metal
Middle - Out of Phase
Neck - Clean
Neck - Lead
Neck - Rhythm
DON'T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT!
Ultimate Guitar reviewed the Black Dog, and said:
Published on 1 Aug 2016
“There's a real throaty grunt from these things..."
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Bare Knuckle PickupsCustomer Reviews
It’s been a little while since I bought a Black Dog from you to replace the BB2 in my Les Paul. It’s now been installed for close to two months and I just wanted to let you know it’s been a really worthwhile swap. I’m getting the slightly thicker clean sound I wanted, and still really clear too. Even better than that though are the driven sounds - both from the hotter channel of my amp and/or with pedals. It’s driven but tight and still articulate if that makes sense. Needless to say I’m really enjoying the change, and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to replace their BB2 with something a little warmer.
