Though he has dozens of amazing guitars, since 1986 Slash has used pretty much one very special Les Paul ® for all recording. The Alnico II Pro Slash was designed to give Slash's other Les Paul guitars-what he calls his "live guitars"-the exact tone of this legendary instrument.Like the standard APH-1 Alnico II Pro, this pickup uses an Alnico 2 magnet. However, the Slash model is wound with just enough boosted output to push a stock Les Paul toward the sweet sustain and rude crunch that characterizes Slash's sound as heard on hundreds of tracks. In addition, it comes with some of the same appointments found on the Seymour Duncan pickups in Slash's '86 recording axe, including single-conductor cable, long-legged bottom plate, and wooden spacer. For the true fan, or the player who wants to capture Slash's recorded tone, this pickup is a critical part of the tone chain. This is same pickup found in the newest Gibson® Slash model Les Paul.

Product Features

• While designed for use in a Les Paul, this pickup works well in any well-balanced humbucker-equipped guitar. Also works great with hollow and semi-hollow body guitars.
• Warm, moderate output humbucker. Recommended for jazz, blues, and classic rock.
• The Slash aficionado will use a pair of these pickups to capture that unmistakable tone. This pickup matches well with the SFX-11 Twin Tube Blue all-tube overdrive-distortion stompbox for singing leads and authoritative chording.

Attributes

• Color (X): Multi-Color
• Pickup Type (X): Humbucker
• Strings (X): 6-String
• Active/Passive (X): Passive

Included Items

When Slash was given the honor of having a Gibson Les Paul Signature model built, Seymour Duncan sent over the same Alnico 2 Pro humbuckers that he has used for decades. Turns out, the new guitars sounded noticeably different than the original. So, they accepted the challenge to make him a new pickup that would make all of his new signature guitars sound just like the original AFD Les Paul. The result is the Slash Signature Model humbucker. They used a different mag wire and winding spec that, when combined with the alnico 2 bar magnet, provided exactly what was needed to push a stock Les Paul toward that familiar sustain, crunch, and midrange that was so characteristic of the tone of Slash’s original Derrig Les Paul copy. The Slash humbuckers are hand built in Santa Barbara the same way we built his originals in the 80s, with a nickel silver bottom plate with long mounting legs, single conductor braided lead wire, maple spacer, paper tape, and wax potting. P.S. In case you were wondering, yes, the set that you buy is exactly the same as what Slash’s mighty tech, Ace Bergman, installs in Slash’s guitars. When the boss needs some new APH-2s, they pull them right out of production stock.

Attributes

• Color: Zebra

Technical Specifications

• # of Strings: 6
• Features: Signature Model
• Pickup Type: Humbucker
• Active/Passive: Passive
• # of Conductors: 1
• Quantity: Set
• Magnet Material: Alnico
• DC Resistance: Neck: 8.30K, Bridge: 8.9K
• Format: Traditional Humbucker
• Humbucker String Spacing: Standard

Dunlop electric guitar strings are made with great pride in Benicia, California and offer a unique recipe of smooth highs, focused mids and defined lows. Utilizing only the finest materials in combination with our propriety core to wrap ratio, Dunlop Strings offer players a quick break-in period, long life and a balanced string-to-string response that allow you to move across the fingerboard with incredible precision and tone. Whether your style is Blues, Country, Jazz, Metal, Rock or R&B, playing Dunlop will change the way you FEEL about strings. Every set of Dunlop Strings come packaged utilizing three levels of moisture protection and sealed in a VCI Fresh Technology (Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor) bag to guarantee that your strings arrive as fresh as the day they were made.

Attributes

• Gauge: Custom/Hybrid

Technical Specifications

• # of Strings: 6
• String Material: Nickel
• Unit Count: Single
• String Gauge: 10-52
• Instrument Type: Electric Guitar

Struktrure selected the top-selling cables in the industry and eliminated as much packaging cost as possible without sacrificing quality. The PVC outer covering is reinforced by a state-of-the-art shrink-wrap sleeve to resist separation at the termination points. Finally, they use the highest quality solder connections, which are protected by a thick ABS inner sleeve, to create a cable you can count on.

Attributes

• Color: Black

Technical Specifications

• Type: Instrument
• Unit Count: Single
• From Connector: 1/4"
• To Connector: 1/4"
• Connector Angle: Straight to Straight
• Balanced: No
• Cable Length: 10'