Seymour Duncan APTL-3JD Jerry Donahue / APTR-1 Alnico II Pro Tele set
Seymour Duncan APTL-3JD Jerry Donahue (lead) & APTR-1 (rhythm) Alnico II Pro Tele pickup set Application APTL-3JD: Well-balanced true single-coil pickup with boosted output. Recommended for traditional country, country pop, blues, and classic rock.<
APTR-1: Warm, moderate-output single-coil for Tele®. Great for country, pop, jazz, blues and classic rock.
Description APTL-3JD: When the "Bendmaster of the Telecaster" needed a touring guitar with the exact same sound as his prized '52, he turned to Seymour who accurately duplicated the warm, punchy tone of its lead pickup. Seymour used Alnico 2 rod magnets and a special wind for increased sustain and output. Symmetrically staggered pole pieces mirror the fingerboard radius and assure exceptionally balanced string-to-string response. The result is a traditional, sweet and balanced tone, with high-end detail combined with low-end fatness and punch, and tons o' twang.
APTR-1: The sand cast Alnico 2 magnets and moderate windings yield a warm, sweet tone with more natural string vibration for great sustain. Players who get their distortion from the amp rather than the pickup love the Alnico II Pro. It allows them to back off the crunch and get beautiful clean tones with softer attack. Compared to the Vintage '54, the Alnico II Pro has a rounder sound with a spongier bass response making it well suited to brighter instruments. Comes with waxed cloth hookup cable. Rhythm version comes with a chrome-plated brass cover.
Complete setup APTL-3JD: Available in lead (bridge) position only. The APTR-1 is the closest match in the rhythm (neck) position; however Jerry uses an APS-2 Alnico II Pro™ for Strat® in the neck position.
APTR-1 This is a rhythm pickup and is RW/RP relative to the lead pickup for hum canceling when both pickups are used together.
Guitars For brighter toned instruments. Works especially well with maple fingerboards.
About the Guitars: We used a '60's Classic Les Paul with a fresh set of American Flyer 10-46 gauge strings. We kept the pickup-to-string heights consistent between each change of pickups.
About the Amps: We employed the "highest common denominator" philosophy in our amp selection. For clean tones, we used a silverface Fender Super Reverb with stock 4x10 "blue frame" speakers. We kept the Bright Switch "On" throughout. For crunch tones, we used a well-worn Marshall JCM 800 50 watt master volume head through a new Marshall 1960A Celestion®-loaded 4x12 cabinet. We plugged into the High output. With both amps we close miked straight-on with SM-57s through a Soundcraft Spirit Folio Mixer.
Players Kent Wells / Reba McEntire, Nick Lashley / Alanis Morissette & Mick Jagger, Todd Robinson / Luis Miguel, Marc Ford / Ben Harper & Black Crowes
Returns: Most pickups can't be returned once installed because of the installation process that requires soldering, etc. Seymour Duncan however offers a fantastic 21 Day Return Policy! Here's the details: Seymour Duncan / Basslines offers our 21 Day Real World Exchange Policy on all new pickups purchased in the U.S. and some other participating countries, which states the following: If for any reason you're not satisfied with the pickup's sound or construction, return it and your receipt to your dealer, or direct to the factory within 21 days for exchange with another pickups of equal or lesser value. To do this, please just send us an email and include your invoice number and the new pickup you'd like to exchange towards.
