What is a Sidewinder?
Our new Series 4 “sidewinders” use a unique configuration where both coils in the humbucker are on their side and sense the strings though a single central blade. Because there is no upper harmonic cancellation and midrange emphasis like you get with standard humbuckers, these give a clean bright tone with extended top end, and a more neutral midrange as you would get with a single coil pickup. These are specially wound for fans of very natural sounding bass, such as the old Lane Poor pickups provided. They have slightly lower output than our humbuckers and feature ceramic magnets. These also easily do the vintage/bright single coil tone. We also make a hotter wound version for a more fat-vintage single coil tone.
