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PRS Guitars' Coveted 57/08 Pickups Now Available for Sale

Published 6 years ago on March 24, 2017

By Jonathan Graham

PRS's vintage-inspired 57/08 pickups are now available for purchase for the first time through the PRS accessories store and authorized PRS dealers.

Inspired by 1957 humbuckers and introduced in 2008 (hence the name), these proprietary pickups were designed by Paul Reed Smith and are made with vintage-style wire and wound in-house in PRS's Electronics department. They were designed to capture the iconic tones of 1950's era guitars and have become modern classics in their own right with their warm, even, responsive tone. If you are looking to refine the voice of your guitar, check out these pickups today.

'When we first came out with 57/08's, we had just gotten exclusive rights to the wire made by the same machine that made all the wire in 1950's pickups. Learning from that exclusive wire, we were able to make really great recreations of those early pickups with what we felt were some improvements in consistency, clarity, and tone,'


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