Privateer Metal Pickups and balanced for their positions

and balanced for their positions in the guitar

The Scylla is exactly what you've been looking for

this gap negates any tonal benefit that the base plate would provide

This combination brings together the best of vintage and modern voicings

The A5 magnets give the pickups slightly scooped mids

Privateer Metal Pickups and balanced for their positionsThis humbucker is based off of Adrian Smith's Ibanez Destroyer II pickups, specifically the bridge pickup, which I had the pleasure of rewinding before the Iron Maiden World tour in 2025. These were created after taking careful note of the construction of Adrian's pickups, which many people believed were Super Distortions, but they were not they were actually a combination of components from at least Ibanez and DiMarzio, but appeared to have already