LSL instruments is proud to present our new and long awaited line of custom guitar and bass pickups. Revival Pickups by LSL Instruments is a new line of signature pickups for artists in the CCM & P&W world. Why CCM and praise and worship? Because the industry is so vast and versatile ranging from contemporary gospel, southern rock, alternative, country, bluegrass atmospheric,metal and more.

There is no one set of pickups that will work for everyone. So the challenge is to create signature sets of pickups for prominent artists to use in their touring guitars that needed “reviving” on the pickups. This way they could bring the guitar back into rotation and  use them on tour and in the studio again.

Our goal on each set is to achieve exactly what the player was looking for both sonically and aesthetically by using different combinations of windings, magnets, potting methods and some neat, relic, bobbin and cover options. We look forward to the journey ahead!

WE PROUDLY PRESENT THE MICHAEL WESTBROOK (CROWDER) SSS SET!

60’s style SSS

Hand wound scatter wound

A5 Magnets

Overwound

Light age covers

42 guage wire

Extra thin polyethylene coated wire wound for less airspace between wraps

Neck: 6.55k

Middle: 6.57

Bridge: 6.84

“I wanted a slightly hotter, slightly fatter sounding pickup set. However I didn’t want to lose that classic strat clarity. The original pickups in the guitar were great. I just noticed that the chording sounded full enough, but switching to single note playing, they sounded a bit thin. My new Revival Pickups set is sonically similar to the original but the feel of them is very different. They are very articulate, single notes (to me) sound fatter, have a little more low/mid push that really makes the single note stuff stand up and hold up better. You will notice this most when switching out from chords into single notes and leads. Articulate, clear and dynamic is how I would describe my “Westbrook” SSS custom set from Revival Pickups by LSL Instruments. I am very happy with how these came out, and I hope you love them for your own revival projects”

Michael W. Westbrook

Bio:

Originally from Athens Georgia, Michael W. Westbrook has been a part of the Atlanta music community for over 18 years. While spending the majority of that time as a multi-instrumentalist he has toured nationally and internationally supporting artist including Crowder, Elevation, Corey Smith, Jake Clemons of the “E” Street Band, Nathan Angelo, and Chris Stalcup and the Grange. As well as playing live he has spent a significant time in the studio helping a wide variety of artist achieve their vision. More recently he has used this experience to move into the role of producer/engineer for a variety of different artist and projects. While writing his own material has been a constant thread behind the scenes, it is only more recently that Michael has begun performing solo and as part of a duo, “The Hot Hearts” with his wife Dee Dee Westbrook.