The Imperial® Humbucker captures the airy top end, balanced mid-range, tight lows, and complex overtones of the classic original PAF pickups. We then improved on the design to give you a more balanced frequency response. Its medium output is in the vintage range with a hotter wound bridge pickup compared with a typical vintage set. Our unbalanced coils produce a tight bottom end that complements the pickup's fullness and causes overtones to build after each note is played. Overall, it has a fuller bridge tone and a cleaner and brighter middle position. The neck is hot enough to play on the edge of amp distortion, or you can adjust your picking pressure to achieve a cleaner or dirtier sound as desired. Made with Alnico 2 magnets in the neck and Alnico 5 magnets in the bridge that are degaussed to specific levels unique to the neck and bridge positions. SCROLL DOWN FOR CLIPS
Lollar Imperial Pickups
Soundfiles above played by Greg Timmons with a Fender Brown Vibrolux and a Gibson 335.
All Low Wind Imperial sound files with clean and dirty tone were played by Greg Timmons using an LP Copy and a brown Fender Vibrolux amp.
Clean sound files played by Greg Timmons with a Fender Super Reverb and an LP copy.
Dirty sound files played by Greg Timmons with a 65Amps London and an LP copy
