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Stratocaster pickups Gemini stratocaster pickups offer a range of familiar and not so familiar sounds. The Chimera and Nymph are classic strat pickups in warm and bright variations. The Spirit and Valkyrie offer tones that are modifications of normal strat tones. The Minotaur and Kraken take strat tone and mix it with darker fatter, P90 or humbucker style sounds to provide the performance needed to take the strat into a wider range of musical application. Spirit The
Spirits are wound with a heavier guage wire and low impedance which
produces a completely different harmonic structure. While the Spirits
are instantly recognisable as Strat pickups, closer listening reveals
a fat top end, no harshness and a lot more lower mid grunt than
typical Strat pickups.
Despite the low impedance, output is more than adequate. They have a clear and uncluttered sound played clean. Together with a valve amp, they produce overdrives that are smooth, clear and natural sounding. Taken to extremes, they retain their Strat like sound even at very high gain levels. Wire AWG 41, Flat Alnico 5 rod magnets, Bridge 4.7k, Middle (rw/rp) 4.3k, Neck 4.3k Nymph
Wire AWG 42, Flat Alnico 5 rod magnets, Bridge 6.2k, Middle (rw/rp) 5.9k, Neck 5.7k Chimera The
Chimera is a classic overwound Strat pickup. More warmth and drive than a Nymph but still wholly vintage in character. These are
amongst the most versatile strat pickups around. Wire AWG 42, Flat Alnico 5 rod magnets, Bridge 7.3k, Middle (rw/rp) 6.7k, Neck 6.5k Zephyr The
Zephyr provides warm, smooth 50's style Strat sounds. Light and airy top end, with a softer attack. Firmer mids and a wrm bottom end. Overall a great combination of Wire SWG 46, Flat Alnico III rod magnets, Bridge 8.4k, Middle (rw/rp) 7.6k, Neck 7.5k
Minotaur Give your Strat a major boost with an alternative approach to strat pickups, the Minotaur offers a blend of traditional Strat and P-90 sounds. Minotaurs work with any level of gain, from pristine clean to the dirtiest filth but they really excel in the middle range from just starting to break up to heavy crunch tones.  The bridge pickup is slightly more P-90 than strat, the middle is about 50-50 and the neck is slightly more strat than P-90. Wire SWG 46, Flat Alnico 5 rod magnets, Bridge 9.5k, Middle (rw/rp) 8.6k, Neck 8.3k Kraken Maximum firepower for Strats. Humbucker levels of output and predominantly humbucker tone, with just enough bite for clarity, plus traditional Strat focus and attack. Warm but clear clean tones and rock solid overdrives. Krakens love gain and volume. Wire AWG 43, Flat oversized (6mm) Alnico 5DG rod magnets, Bridge 13.5k, Middle (rw/rp) 12.4k, Neck 12.1k Valkyrie The Valkyries are undoubtedly for professionals with their unrivalled tonal depth, controlled attack and smooth decay. Use of ultra-fine wire gives them a flatter eq curve with subtly enhanced mids. This allows them to retain all of the desirable characteristics of traditional strat sounds combined with stage and studio performance to satisfy the most demanding of guitarists. At bedroom volumes, especially played clean, they can sound a little too polite, but at stage volumes they are truly magnificent.  The Valkyries are warmer and darker than average, with a relaxed feel and just a touch more power. Wire AWG 46, Flat Alnico 5 rod magnets, Bridge 19.5k, Middle (rw/rp) 17.0k, Neck 16.35k |
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Nymph offers a brighter sound than the Chimera. Open, airy and light,
with lots of highs for maximum quack in the in between positions.
These are not just for country fans, they’re great for funk and
soul as well. Of course, if you have a Strat that is just a little
bit too dark, these will fix that as well.
clarity and warmth. Extremely responsive to playing dynamics. probablt the most expressive strat pickup you'll ever have played
Stratocaster, Strat, Telecaster, Tele are trademarks of Fender Musical instruments corporation.
Les Paul, LP, P-90, Burstbucker, "modern classic", Firebird are trademarks of Gibson inc.
Epiphone, Wildkat, Casino and Sorrento are trademarks of the Epiphone Company.
Gemini Pickups is not affiliated with any of these companies and the above terms are used for descriptive purposes only.
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