High Output
Dark, Strong, and Aggressive
$175 – $350
The High Output Humbucker: Stronger and bigger sounding humbucker without being too dark. Works great with a coil-split, perfect for single notes with high gain. The High Output Humbucker is stronger, beefier, and thicker than our Modern P.A.F.
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Features
The High Output Humbucker has the thickest, fattest tone of all of our humbuckers. Perfect for high-gain playing, especially with single notes. Our High Output Humbucker is a thick-sounding humbucker that sounds great when split. It’s perfect for anyone looking for the beefiest tone possible. Wound with 43-gauge wire and AlNiCo V magnets, you’ll get a smooth grind, with a ton of output.
- Our Highest Output Humbucker – Strong, Dark, and Beefy
- Perfect for Coil Splitting
- Modified Gibson PAF® specifications with attention to increased output
- Darker and thicker tone. Smooth, Chainsaw grind and a medium attack
- USA-made Alnico 5 Magnets for optimal tonal balance and output
- Compensated Overwound Bridge for even volume across all pickups
- Hand-wound with our “Sectioning” technique for unique, dynamic tone
- Hand-built for unrivaled quality control
- 10-Year Warranty on manufacturing defects
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Our High Output Humbucker is the thickest and loudest Humbucker we make. It has a very aggressive and dark tone. It’s beefier and more aggressive than our Modern P.A.F. Expect a thick-sounding single-string note that’s quick to break up. Chords will sound full and crunchy with a good amount of soft-clip compression. The High Output Humbucker is best with distortion, especially with single-notes. The grind is thick and smooth, and single notes will sustain and sing. Because this humbucker is so strong, it’s ideal for coil-tapping. This will leave the single-coil pickup strong enough to play well with others. Best used in a bridge position, the High Output Humbucker will sound great and have a warm, round pick attack.
Our manufacturing process allows us to achieve unparalleled quality control. High Output Humbuckers consist of USA-Made bobbins, baseplates, magnets, and wire. We wind each pickup by hand, one at a time. Each pickup is wound using our proprietary “Sectioning” technique. This gives the pickup a sweet, clear tone.
We assemble each pickup one at a time, by hand. This allows us to achieve unbeatable attention to detail. Finally, we wax-pot the pickup to preserve the pickup and prevent microphonics.
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Tonal Graph For High Output:
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Tech Specs:
See below for the estimated DCR and Polarity Information for our High Output.
| SPECIFICATION | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Estimated Neck Ohm Reading: | 11.3K 1 |
| Estimated Bridge Ohm Reading: | 13K 1 |
| Neck Polarity: | Reversible with 3-Conductor or 4-Conductor Lead |
| Bridge Polarity: | Reversible with 3-Conductor or 4-Conductor Lead |
| Cover & Baseplate Material: | Nickel Silver |
| Baseplate Leg Depth: | 6mm |
| Magnet: | USA-Made Alnico 5 |
| Wire: | USA-Made 43-Gauge Single Poly Nylon |
| Recommended Pot Value: | 500K |
| Slug / Pole Piece Material: | Steel |
| Bobbin Material: | ABS Plastic |
| Recommended Cap Value: | 0.02mfd 2 |
Additional Technical Info:
1 Ohm Readings can vary due to a multitude of factors, including ambient temperature, multimeter calibration, different wire batches, and other factors. Due to this, ohm readings are approximate. Learn more about Ohm Readings here.
2 We recommend a 0.02mfd Cap Value on most guitar and bass pickups. The exception is a Magic Cap, which Lindy prefers on the Bridge Pickup of Fender® guitars only. Learn More about Caps Here.
Polarity Information:
Here's how we wind and magnetize our pickups:
This is a Hum Cancelling Pickup.
If you're buying a set from us, all pickups will work together seamlessly. If you're buying a single pickup, all you need to worry about is Coil Direction.
To ensure your pickup will work, make sure you select multiple leads (2-Conductor, 3-Conductor, or 4-Conductor if available), or the 3-Wire modification so you can reverse the coil direction, if need be.
Lead Options
See below for our Lead color codes. For help with matching to other manufacturers, check out this resource here.
Gibson Braided Lead
Gibson-Style instruments
Phase Reversible
Coil Splitting
3-Conductor Lead
Phase Reversible
Coil Splitting
4-Conductor Lead
Phase Reversible
Series Parallel Wiring
Coil Splitting
Covered Humbucker
Uncovered Humbucker
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"I've always been on a journey to find a sound that matches what I hear in my head and responds how I want to the way I play. Working together with Lindy to develop a pickup was a joy and what we ended up with hit the nail on the head exactly. When I plug in my guitar and hit that first chord it's magic every time. It's hard to get excited about playing anything else at this point!"
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Customer Reviews
32 Genuine Reviews for High Output
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I got this for my HSS Tele along with Blues Specials for the single coils. Sounds awesome. Lovin em!
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In early 2023, I took delivery of a US ESP Eclipse Floyd Rose I had ordered in February, 2020. Due to the pandemic, it took a little over 3 years to complete the build. The original OEM guitar came with an SD ’59 and a Classic. After noodling with the guitar for a few months, I concluded the SDs were too harsh rolling on and off. The pups just didn’t match the guitar or the tone I was after. Lindy to the rescue …
I wanted a pair of high output pups that would sing but still have a smooth roll on and off. The High Outputs fit that bill to a T. I couldn’t ask for better HO pups. I can play anything from acoustic tones to early metal (think Iron Maiden NOTB, Piece of Mind). Lindy and his team not only wound me a (second) set of unique matched pups, they truly set them off with black chrome PAF style covers.
I cannot thank Lindy and his team enough for winding me a perfect set of pups.
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Excellent pickups. Full of definition and clarity and split incredibly well. Highly recommended.
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T Linneman
I spoke with Lindy & he is willing to help understand exactly what I wanted to build after telling him my plans. He came through with 1st. Set for .y Gibson les paul Traditional & it was the Best sounding LP I’ve ever owned & played . I’ve had some really well made Noiseless p-90s as well & plan on another project. Thank you so much for you dedication to this industry. Your Tops in my Book .KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK Y’ALL AT FRALIN . Being a tone nut & perfectionist has been challenging & I’m Thankfull to have worked with Lindy & His team of experts winders & Pickup builders.. -
These went in a 2012 Les Paul Standard, which the original Burstbuckers were crap. These are plenty strong, which makes the single coil output more usable. The tone was a little too crisp, and maybe the tonewood of the guitar contributed to this. I went to 250K volume pots and now I’m happy with these pickups.
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Fralins are popular because they sound great and these are no exception. I was a little surprised how much darker they are from my original pickups but they’re so versatile and wonderful.
I also have a pair of his noiseless p90s and I was shocked how good they sounded. Fralins are my go to from now on. Dude’s a legend.
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I’ve had Lindy rewind some pickups in the past and that’s why I decided on these are pickups because of the sound and quality that Fralin Pickups delivers and they’re probably some of the best pickups I’ve ever heard. I have them installed in a ‘Gibson ‘67 Flying V Reissue and it sounds incredible!
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These pickups are amazing. I have Custom Shop Gibsons that are Historics and I went with Lindy’s Pure PAFs for those. However, I recently got a Les Paul Axcess Custom that had the stock Gibson pickups and they were not good. I went with the Modern High Output pickups here. These are high output pickups but do not let that fool you. They are still very articulate with great note separation. The neck pickup seems to be dark and full upon first listening to it, but when you get used to how versatile this pickup is, you quickly learn that that fullness is because there is so much definition in these pickups. I have 4 conductor on these and do series/parallel splitting and these pickups handle it so well with basically zero volume drop that it is like have 4 pickups on this guitar. The bridge pickup is clear and articulate. One would think a high output bridge will immediately break up but it does not, it stays clear and articulate just like a PAF, until you start to turn the drive up on the amp, then it pushes like a modern pickup but more like an overwound PAF. It is modern, but not with too much compression like some moderns tend to have. I am very satisfied with these.
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First-class product where you really can have it all: clarity and balance, and extra ooomph for overdrive and distortion tones. I put a set into a H-H superstrat, and the result is a wonderfully versatile guitar.
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These are great. I put them in a Les Paul that I have detuned to baritone tuning, so I’m not sure how much of the dark and beefy sound is coming from the pickups versus the tuning, but the clarity and note separation you can get out of these pickups is exceptional, and definitely helpful for such a low tuning.
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Absolutely the best bridge pickup I have ever played, installed in a Gibson SG. Huge crunch, nice top end that stays clear but isn’t icepicky, and great note separation, especially for a high output pickup.
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I put a set of high output Fralin in a 1998 Les Paul classic. These are a drastic improvement over the 490/498 Gibson pickups. The Fralin are really defined and tight sounding without any of the muddy flub. They break up pretty quickly but backing off the volume knob allows complete clean up without a noticeable loss of volume. The sound is a harmonic crunchy growl that just sounds perfect for anything with gain from mild to high. I was able to get these to sound pretty close to Allman Bros, Skynard, Clutch, Masters of Reality, Opeth (clean & dirty), Tool, & Slayer. They don’t twang, but it’s a humbucker in a Gibson, none of them really twang. They sound perfect for any type of rock, especially the Marshall or Mesa Boogie types.
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