Application

18-volt active humbucker with extremely high output. Recommended for punk, garage, thrash, old school metal, nu-metal, black metal and other heavy rock and aggressive music styles.

Description

Perhaps the world’s highest output pickup. Designed and voiced for the most brutally extreme tone. It has a screaming voice with amazing mid-range punch that produces thick, dark chords and hard-hitting leads. Incredibly aggressive output. Will overdrive most amps. These humbuckers do not have a split coil mode.

Complete setup

Recommended for bridge. Though some players use a Metal in both neck and bridge, the LW-HMETs Metal set includes a Classic version for the neck in case clean tones are needed. The Metal humbucker does not produce true clean tones. Includes mounting ring, pots, battery clips, stereo jack and wire.

Guitars

Any humbucker guitar with vibrato or hard-tail bridge.

Available mods

Black or white.

Players

Alex Auburn / Cryptopsy, Lord Ahriman / Dark Funeral, Andreas Kisser & Derrick Green / Sepultura, Mark Morton / Lamb of God, Johnny Stoj / Pegazus

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