The pickup market is pretty crowded these days but I think the new Steve Lukather Transition Humbucking pickups by Dimarzio are quite interesting. Known for using active electronics for years, Steve Lukather has decided to go back to good old passive pickups for is new LIII Musicman model. The Transition pickups come in a bridge and a neck model.

What I like in those pickups is the clarity, they are punchy humbuckers with some single coil DNA.

Here is Steve Lukather himself demonstrating the Transition pickups in a video (and announcing his next solo album entitled… “Transition” to be released on Jan 21):