Product Description
The Seymour Duncan APTL-1 Alnico II Pro Lead (bridge) Tele Pickup. FREE shipping in the USA!Application
Warm, moderate-output single-coil for Tele®. Great for country, pop, jazz, blues and classic rock.
Description
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
Available for both rhythm (neck) and lead (bridge) positions. Often used in the rhythm position and matched with a higher output lead pickup like the STL-2 Hot. Rhythm pickup 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 all brand new Fender American made '52 with a light-weight ash body and a maple fingerboard and 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. These are the amp settings:
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Specifications:
- Cable: Single Conductor cloth
- DC Resistance: Lead: 6.2 k, Rhythm: 8.1 k
- Resonant Peak: Lead: 8.5 KHz, Rhythm: 8 KHz
- Magnet: Alnico II Rods
- EQ (B/M/T): Lead: 5 / 2 / 5, Rhythm: 6 / 3 / 4
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.