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Your cart is empty.Inject Your Strat with Sweet PAF-like Tone Guitarists have been chasing Billy Gibbons' sweet-but-slightly-rude tone for what seems like eons. And now you can inject that very same tone into your Stratocaster, thanks to Seymour Duncan's Red Devil pickups. These single-coil-sized humbuckers give you a sweet PAF-like tone that, in Seymour Duncan's words, sound like they've been dipped in hot sauce. Experience airy highs, sizzling mids, and a growl that's guaranteed to bring new life to any instrument. Beyond that, your pinch harmonics will squeal and sing like never before. Each pickup in the Red Devil pickup set features its own unique wind. If you want a sound that's the size of Texas, drop a set of Red Devil pickups into your Strat. These pickups are proof that big things can come in small packages.3 unique pickups winds Each pickup in the Red Devil pickup set receives its own custom
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024
These pickups are amazing. Just the right amount of dirt and the harmonics blow me away. I wish I had them in all my guitars.
Glen Peasley
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2024
I put them in my partscaster to give it one last mod and am very satisfied with these pickups
Reader Rabbit
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019
I was skeptical of claims that these were voiced to approximate the tone of Billy Gibbons' Les Paul on his Strat. But now I'm a believer. These really do take a Strat into fat, juicy, sweet Gibson territory – very suitable for jazz, Chicago blues, etc.I'm now playing my Red Deviled Strat far more than my cherished, upgraded PRS set-neck guitars and LP copies. It has a magical combination of Strat aesthetics, Gibson punch, and added snap and aliveness from the bolt-on maple neck.Just don't put these on your only Strat: They sound Gibsonish by thoroughly negating the silky, chimey tone you normally get from a Strat's tremolo springs. This is true even when split – they have a hard attack nothing like vintage Strat pickupsThe 3 pups are wound for distinct tones – that's not marketing hype. The neck pup is dark and round. The bridge pup actually has better tonal balance than any full-size Duncan bridge humbucker that I've tried on my (shallow-depth) PRS guitars: It has enough mids for body, balanced by enough highs to not honk. The result is a sweet, oboe-like tone, close to what you hear on Neil Young's first few albums.The middle pup is surprisingly loud. To balance volumes, I had to mount it much lower than the other two. I'm guessing this loudness is deliberate, to facilitate recessed mounting to promote quack in positions 2 and 4. But there's minimal quack there. Still, this pup sounds thinner than the outside two, so it's the closest to single-coil sounds.Strat-sized humbuckers with alnico magnets are a recent option. These don't have the sag or squash of traditional alnico Strat pups (because that would undercut the not-a-Strat illusion). But they also avoid the harshness of ceramic pups.I love 'em, and now have the bridge version on a 2nd Strat.
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