Gibson 490R CC Humbucker Pickup

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The 490R and 490T pickups are the modern equivalents to the '57 Classic pickups. The 490s have a 4-wire connector cable with which different switching variants are possible (coil-split, serial, parallel).

The 490R and 490T have different spacings between the pins to provide better balance to the increasing string spacing towards the bridge. Both pickups feature vintage Alnico magnets. The 490R is installed in most Gibson guitars as the neck pickup, and is often combined with the 490T or 498T.

Humbucker
Characteristics: Singing lead sounds, strong rhythm sounds
Colour: Chrome

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Active No

Wiring 4-Conductor

Output Medium

Cap Yes

Colour Chrome

Position Neck

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Cool and versatile

Jonwbd 05.03.2022

I bought this pickup to replace a single-coil pickup in the neck position of a guitar for a thicker sound.

The pickup did the job brilliantly, but I was also able to utilise the four-conductor cable to install a coil split, enabling me to get more sounds out of the guitar.

The pickup is top quality and manufactured well. As it has the dimensions of a standard humbucker pickup, it could potentially be fitted to a variety of guitars.

Sound-wise, it’s excellent. The pickup sounds great with my guitar’s original 250k pots, but is also used to brilliant effect with 500k pots when fitted as standard in many Gibson guitars.

This pickup could work in many different guitars and suit guitarists from a wide range of styles and genres.

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Beautiful sounding neck pickup

Ray97 24.12.2020

I replaced the neck pickup in my HB Fusion-II with this and it gave the guitar a whole new spirit. It sounds clear and dynamic while getting a nice warm jazzy tone when you roll back the tone a little bit. Installation required a bit of woodwork because the guitar was routed for short-leg direct-mount pickups while the Gibson pickup has long legs for mounting with a pickup ring but that is no fault of the pickup.
I love the combination of clarity and smoothness that this pickup delivers and I recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade the stock pickups in their guitar and I imagine it would work especially well on Epiphones.

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Great Gibson sound

James3810 11.01.2015

This pickup has gone into my Epiphone Les Paul and it has transformed the instrument for me. I enjoyed playing the Epiphone, great feel on the neck, stays in tune, beautiful finish. But now the sound of the instrument has come alive, having much more 'presence' than before, and clarity. I recommend this pickup highly!

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Tone and price

Ces Mc 07.05.2020

It might seem muddy at the beginning but it's not really that. It's just big and warm. I chose this one because of the possibility to wire it in parallel, single-coil and series. It does the job. It has balls to push your amp. nice

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