SD Twang Banger pup...

owwdatune · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject: SD Twang Banger pup...

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Seymour Duncan® Marries Strat Tone with Tele Tone
Twang Banger™ is a “Best-of-Both-Worlds” Pickup

Santa Barbara, California -- So you want both the twangy, muscular punch of a gutsy Telecaster®; and the chimey, bell-tone “quack” of a Stratocaster®? Up till now, that meant hauling both a Strat® and a Tele® to your gig or into the studio. That is, until Seymour Duncan introduced the APST-1 Twang Banger™, a pickup designed to administer a big-time twang injection into your Strat.

The Twang Banger takes an old Seymour Duncan design and updates it. Seymour’s design was first used in the late ‘80s by Music Man® on their Albert Lee signature model guitar and, in later years he modified it for Fender’s Hellecaster Strat. One of the twang secrets is the copper-coated steel plate attached to the underside of the pickup. It disperses the magnetic field in the same way as the metal plate on the underside of a Tele lead pickup.

The Twang Banger improves on the earlier designs by using plain enamel magnet wire – the same type that Leo Fender used on his early Telecaster pickups – and a symmetrical magnet stagger that mirrors the fingerboard radius and achieves excellent string-to-string balance. Combine that with the aggressive coil windings, the Alnico II magnets wrapped in plain enamel wire, and the result is a high-output, single coil, twang-beast.

Recommended for the bridge position, the Twang Banger is a direct retrofit for Strat guitars. Seymour Duncan suggests combining a Twang Banger with a pair of APS-2 Alnico II Pro single coil pickups in the neck and middle positions for the best-of-both-worlds Tele-plus-Strat tone. The Twang Banger includes mounting hardware and a wiring diagram. The Twang Banger is hand built in Seymour Duncan’s Santa Barbara, California factory.

Specs: D.C Resistance: 8.27K Ohms, Resonant Peak: 5.6 KHz

Fender, Stratocaster, Strat, Telecaster, and Tele are registered trademarks of FMIC. Music Man is a registered trademark of Ernie Ball. Seymour Duncan is not affiliated with these companies.
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weelie · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:56 am Post subject:

Yes, I've been thinking of these a long time. But bought a tele (again) instead. Still waiting on the shipment of it, though. A cheapo copy, bought a 52RI pickup set for it too.

owwdatune · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:03 am Post subject:

yo weelie....its been 2 months since ya got that new Tele clone.. Smile

...how do you like it ??....hows it sound with those new 52 ri pups versus the ones that it came with ?? Cool

weelie · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:10 am Post subject:

It's great. Got a set of Gotoh kluson tuners (and comensated brass saddles) for it too. Great guitar for little dough! I love small and inexpensive things. Very Happy

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/kotiaho/ and the richwood-folder will show the tele before the mods.