Soapbar pickups are single coil units, a version of the P-90 that was the standard Gibson pickup in the post war period until the advent of the humbucker in 1957. For this reason the McCarty Soapbar evokes the vintage period of the 1950s, featuring a pair of soapbar single coil pickups specially designed and voiced by Seymour Duncan. The McCarty Soapbar pickups evoke the definition, robustness and thick punch of the original soapbar single coils that defined the sound of vintage Gibson guitars you hear on rock and roll and jazz recordings from the 50's and 60's.