Full Description
Birmingham, England meet Birmingham, Alabama! This humbucker set delivers classic British crunch and huge mids, but also splits to a killer Southern single coil sound.
The Birmingham takes the best of your favourite 70s tones and slams them into one great humbucker set. Think Angus, Jimmy, Tony and the rest!
All Birmingham pickups are fully wax potted to avoid microphonic feedback, and come supplied with #3/48 screws, springs and an installation guide.
Available individually or as a set. Four conductor wiring as standard.
Neck 7.2k / Bridge 8.7k / F-spaced Bridge 8.9k, Alnico V
Tech Specs
| Birmingham Neck | Birmingham Bridge | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | AC5N | AC5B |
| Magnet | Alnico V Bar | Alnico V Bar |
| DCR | 7.2k | 8.7k (F-spaced 8.9k) |
| Inductance | 4.2H | 5.5H |
| Hookup Wire | 4-Conductor | 4-Conductor |
| Baseplate | Nickel Silver | Nickel Silver |
Dimensions
Wiring Diagrams
- 1 Humbucker / 1 Vol
- 1 Humbucker / 1 Vol / 1 Tone
- 1 Humbucker / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / Push-Pull Coil Split (Volume)
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle
- 2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split (Vol)
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split (Tone)
- 2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split
- 2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle (50’s Wiring)
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 5-Way Lever
Full Description
Birmingham, England meet Birmingham, Alabama! This humbucker set delivers classic British crunch and huge mids, but also splits to a killer Southern single coil sound.
The Birmingham takes the best of your favourite 70s tones and slams them into one great humbucker set. Think Angus, Jimmy, Tony and the rest!
All Birmingham pickups are fully wax potted to avoid microphonic feedback, and come supplied with #3/48 screws, springs and an installation guide.
Available individually or as a set. Four conductor wiring as standard.
Neck 7.2k / Bridge 8.7k / F-spaced Bridge 8.9k, Alnico V
Tech Specs
| Birmingham Neck | Birmingham Bridge | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | AC5N | AC5B |
| Magnet | Alnico V Bar | Alnico V Bar |
| DCR | 7.2k | 8.7k (F-spaced 8.9k) |
| Inductance | 4.2H | 5.5H |
| Hookup Wire | 4-Conductor | 4-Conductor |
| Baseplate | Nickel Silver | Nickel Silver |
Dimensions
Installation & Wiring Diagrams
- 1 Humbucker / 1 Vol
- 1 Humbucker / 1 Vol / 1 Tone
- 1 Humbucker / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / Push-Pull Coil Split (Volume)
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle
- 2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split (Vol)
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split (Tone)
- 2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split
- 2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle (50’s Wiring)
- 2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 5-Way Lever
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Customer Reviews
I recently bought a Japanese Tokai Love Rock. It's an incredible instrument for the price, but the pickups weren't to my tastes. Quite hot, wooly and with a nasal honk. The Birmingham set has made a huge improvement. It's super articulate and bell like. You can really hear the acoustic tome of the strings coming through. I've had a few sets of Toneriders in the pasr. These ones might be my favourites.
Amazing value!
I bought a Birmingham F-spaced Humbucker to accompany two Classic Blues single coils that I'd already installed in an Ibanez sa strat style guitar. They definitely work well as a team - as is suggested by Tonerider for HSS configurations. They all use an Alnico 5 magnet and all have a very similar tonal quality. More aggressive sounding than their Alnico 2 counterparts. The Tonerider A2 Blues Humbuckers and single coils have a velvety warmth whereas the Birmingham and classic blues do not.
The Birmingham Humbucker is a typically well made pickup from Tonerider. It doesn't lose volume when split or used in 2nd position on a strat configuration.
I bought them for my Mustang and they really improved a lot. The shipping was great and in perfect condition.
The Birmingham sounds very good in my Les Paul and can compete with far more expensive pickups.
Simply amazing. Great split coil tones without loosing too much volume. I will order another set for an SG. Cannot recommend it enough.
