EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker Pickup - Chrome

Humbucking Guitar Pickup for Bridge Position - Chrome

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EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker Pickup - Chrome

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Q: What kind of tone can I expect from the EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker?

The EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker delivers a powerful, articulate tone perfect for rock and high-gain styles. It provides a warm, balanced sound with excellent sustain and clarity, while its higher output ensures your solos cut through. It's designed to capture Eddie Van Halen's iconic sound, offering both aggressive crunch and singing lead tones.

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Q: Who is the EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker designed for?

This pickup is ideal for guitarists seeking the signature EVH sound, excelling in hard rock, metal, and blues-rock genres. Its versatile output suits players who need both powerful rhythm tones and expressive, sustain-rich leads. Whether you're a seasoned pro or an aspiring shredder, it offers the dynamic range to elevate your playing.

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Q: What wiring options are available with this pickup?

The product details do not specify the exact wiring configuration (e.g., 2-conductor, 4-conductor) for the EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker, nor do they detail options like coil-splitting or parallel wiring. It is designed as a direct replacement for standard humbucking pickups, ensuring straightforward installation.

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Q: How does the Alnico II magnet contribute to the pickup's sound?

The product details do not specify the type of magnet used in the Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker. Therefore, we cannot detail how a specific magnet type contributes to its sound. However, the pickup is engineered to deliver a warm, balanced sound with excellent sustain and clarity, producing rich harmonics and a full, expressive tone.

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Q: Is this pickup suitable for guitars beyond EVH models?

Yes, the EVH Wolfgang Bridge Humbucker is a standard-sized humbucker designed to fit most electric guitars with a bridge humbucker route. While it's known for the EVH sound, its versatile tone and high output make it an excellent upgrade for any 6-string guitar where you want a powerful, articulate, and harmonically rich bridge tone.

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Nail Eddie's Tone

The EVH Wolfgang Bridge Pickup gives you classic Eddie Van Halen guitar tone, instantly. Superhuman chops aside, Eddie forged his unmistakable sound through incessant tinkering with guitar parts and pickups. To achieve his signature tone, Eddie paid particular attention to different pickup windings. EVH now gives you a direct replacement for all standard humbucking pickups, the Wolfgang Bridge humbucker, that lets you nail Eddie's classic lead tone: stinging, singing highs, snarling mids, fat brown sound and all. Equip your axe with legendary Eddie Van Halen tone, with the EVH Wolfgang Bridge Pickup.

EVH Wolfgang Bridge Pickup Features:

Nail Eddie's lead tone!
Direct replacement for all standard humbucking pickups
A hip alternative to "usual suspect" replacement humbuckers
DC resistance: 14.0-14.6 K ohms

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Tech Specs

Type: Humbucker
Position: Bridge
Active/Passive: Passive
Magnet Material: Alnico II
Number of Conductors: 4 wire plus shield
DC Resistance: 14.0-14.6K
Connectivity: Soldered
Number of Strings: 6
Covering: Covered
Color: Chrome
Manufacturer Part Number: 0222139002

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I have wanted to upgrade my Fender American Pro II Stratocaster from an SSS configuration to an HSS since August 2025. I wanted to make it more versatile instead of just buying another guitar. After searching and considering a fender quadratap prewired pickguard and tons of research, I came across this EVH Wolfgang covered bridge humbucker. It is normally meant for Wolfgang or EVH guitars, which makes the install a bit tricky for a regualr Strat; luckily, my guitar is routed as an HSH. Attaching it to the pickgaurd worked really well and surprisingly there is a good amount of sustain. I can play anything now from Chuck Berry, The Beatles to EVH now. Its a very clean bright puckup so with that in mind I wired it to the 250 push Pot so that the tone could be rolled down and added it to be split so that the neck and the bridge pickup are together. It sounds absolutley beautiful I highly recommend this one.

I bought two of theses cause they are cheaper than the uncovereds. I removed the metal tops, there is an adhesive on the plastic bobbins of the pickup holding to the metal cover. Some heat applied loosens it up then cleaning up the residue left all over the pickup. They both read 13.7k and they are both zebras.

This set of pickups (I bought the bridge and neck ones) has taken my Les Paul from being a guitar I don't want to play, to being the one I prefer over my others, when it comes to playing with a hard rock sound. I am just letting my ears be my guide, and these are punchy, clear, articulate, and lively, almost to the extent that it's like a perfect EQ is suddenly applied when they're heard for the first time. Of course, this is just my experience, and your tone preferences may differ from my own. I suppose it's all about what you're going after, but I'm glad to have found something that works so well for me.

As way of background, I've been playing rock guitar for over 40 years. During that time, I've mostly played Les Pauls though I've played a Strat HSS, SG, and BC Rich Warlock two. During this 40 plus years, I've swapped out many pickups. So, I've played all the standard Gibson humbuckers, 490R, 490L, 498, Burstbucker, Burstbucker Pro etc. etc. I've also played many of the DiMarzio rock style humbuckers i.e. Super Distortion, Super II, Super III, PAF Pro, Mo Jo PAF, 36th Anniversary PAF etc. etc. I've tried Fralin pickups and Bill Lawrence pickups. Overall, I've swapped out a lot of pickups in search of a creamy high distortion with a clarity for some clean brightness.

EVH was an amazing guitar player and he put his name on these pickups. I have no idea if he really played these, or designed these, or even heard them. I've read that these pickups are made by Fender, which could be good or bad. Fender makes great and average guitars in my opinion depending on the model you buy. Fender is not known for their humbucker experience and prowess. EVH is knowns for his tone and his passion for tinkering his designs to get them where he wanted his tone to be. If EVH did that with these pickups, that explains why they are so great.

This review is for the EVH Wolfgang bridge pickup, but I own both the bridge and the neck pickups. Of course I noticed them because of the EVH brand and the traditional Les Paul chrome covers. These also come in black, but I like my Les Pauls fully dressed. Also, although I'm a huge fan of DiMarzio's Super Distortion I and II, I don't like how they look. Although the other pickups listed above are all good, I haven't found them to be up to the task of being a solid rock bridge pickup. Maybe the Bill Lawrence, but you have to like the styling.

For the EVH Wolfgang bridge pickup, I found it to have a great output level without being muddy. It was as loud and distorts as well as my DiMarzio's with better styling. It also has a punchier clean sound with a little less distortion than the Super Distortion in my opinion. If you are looking for rock and roll leads with a classic Les Paul look, this is the best pick up for the job in my opinion. It's a great sounding pickup. I've been playing it for several months through several amps and cabs and I have several Les Pauls to compare it too. It's the best. EVH seems to have designed the right magnet with the right number of windings to nail it. To me, this is his unknown legacy. Believe it or not, I've bought an extra one so I have it for a future guitar. It's that good.

The wiring is color coded differently than Gibson. So, if you are installing this yourself and splitting the coils you should do some research. It wasn't hard to figure out, but you need to understand that the colors are different. If you take it too a shop for installation, I would mention this to them, but they shouldn't have any problem.

In summary: It was a surprise, but I love this pickup!

See also: Guitar Pickups, EVH, EVH Electric Guitar Pickups