Eric Gales has teamed up with Seymour Duncan for the brand new Eric Gales Signature Pickup Set. The Eric Gales Signature Pickup Set is designed for Strat-style guitars and utilize Alnico IV magnets for a nice, even sound. Which is good, as Gales explains that his sound relies on all the pickups doing an equal amount of lifting.
“Any one of these pickups,” said Gales. “The combination of them all can be turned to on a dime, according to the feel and vibe that I’m going for. It’s so second nature for me to just go back and forth between them all. That well-roundedness just aids in me being able to get my message across.”
He elaborated: “For me it’s all a feel thing, man. And the neck pickup, I generally call it the Albert King pickup and it has a mid-range-y, meaty tone. The combination of the first and middle pickup, I call that the Stevie Ray tone. It gives this Hendrix-y, Little Wing… sort of sound as it’s a very, very, very beautiful tone.
“The middle pickup I go to for nice strong rhythm stuff. The combination of the middle and the back pickup I use for funk, R&B, you know, chicken-pickin’ and it has this crystal-y, ‘Castles Made of Sand’ sound. I call it the glassy tone. And then the bridge pickup I’m making a statement in a solo or something like that. I want to the gas and go wide open.”
Get the full set here for $375.
