Your cart is empty.
Your cart is empty.The Black Winter is as dark and vicious as the winters in Scandinavia with excessive grime and aggression; the right balance of midst, treble and bass to instantly take you from annihilating riffs to solos with cutting articulation. The Black Winter fills the needs of extreme metal guitarists with a tone that provides crushing distortion, punishing midst and lots of aggressive saturation and string sensitivity. Neck and bridge pickups are calibrated for a balanced assault. Hand built in Santa Barbara, CA, we offer the Black Winter in standard 6-string size, as well as 7 & 8 string passive mount with naked coils (or in Active 'Soap bar' Mount with exposed pole pieces). Comes with 4-conductor lead wire for multiple wiring options, and is vacuum wax potted for squeal free operation.
EmorionMarc
Reviewed in Germany on September 13, 2024
Von aktiven Pickups kommend wollte ich diese Pickups mal ausprobieren, da ich vorab viel Positives gehört und gelesen habe.Der Einbau war schnell erledigt (vorausgesetzt man ist fit mit dem Lötkolben).Optik ist wirklich eine 12/10, der abgeänderte Schriftzug sieht wirklich Mega aus.Qualitativ auch wirklich super, sehr hochwertige Verarbeitung.Jetzt zum eigentlich spannendem, den Klang:Verzerrt an der Bridge der Hammer, wie ein aufgebohrter SH6. Sehr tight und präsent, untypisch für passive PUs. Da ich von aktiven Pickups komme, finde ich das super. Clean, naja. Dafür aber wohl auch eher nicht gedacht.Am Hals, wow, was ein Traum. Dicker, sustainreicher leadsound, mastodon-vibes ohne Ende. Damit hätte ich wahrlich nicht gerechnet. Clean auch echt schön, sogar ungesplittet.Ich werde diese PUs definitiv wieder kaufen und auch in weiteren Gitarren verbauen. Echt super!
Tascam Portastudio
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2024
I play a lot of Extreme Metal subgenres and these things are perfect for all things Extreme Metal. The coil split tone is very unique and different from a lot of the traditional medium & high output pickups. I can get a very strange clean guitar similar to something like the clean tone like Pantera's Floods, or even Death's Lack of Comprehension. If you're into the Animals as Leaders overdriven "thumping" tone, you can achieve a great unique version of those type of tones. Seymour Duncan initially made these pickups for more Black Metal sounds than anything else and it shows, there's a lot of clarity despite high gain tones. I actually played a friend's 8 string guitar with the Black Winter installed and I could hear each of the individual 8 string's note, you can play wide open chords and hear it vividly even with a scooped mid tone. The neck is surprisingly very versatile, I'm not entirely sure where it lies on the output range but it seems to be more of medium output from what I can audibly tell. My only complaint is the bridge pickup is not versatile but then again, what do you expect from an Extreme Metal pickup geared towards Black Metal tones. You're not gonna get any Jazz or Blues tones from the bridge although the neck will be able to. If you play Extreme Metal, get this pickup, you will not regret it. If you play anything outside of Extreme Metal, I would recommend doing a lot of research or even playing a guitar with it installed. If you're looking for something versatile for an all-around guitar, you'll be happy with the neck, you will not be happy with the bridge.
Giuliano
Reviewed in Italy on February 23, 2024
Presi per fare un upgrade ad una chitarra EKO S-350V DAPHNE BLUE. Il suono è completamente cambiato è molto più cattivo nel distorto, ma bello anche nel pulito. Sono molto soddisfatto, ho trovato ilsuono che cercavo.
Ken Moore
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024
The bridge worked great. the neck pickup ohmed out correctly at 12+ ohms but was low volume and noisy.Too late to return the set and no response from seller. sad
BBCbipolar
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2024
Pickups came as described with no issues.
thomas vaught
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022
As you'd expect, when the packaging looks menacing and these are called "Black Winters" you know you're in for a treat.I had these put in an Ibanez RG that has a HSH pick-up config, for the nerds out there I put a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder in the middle, although I may change it for a hot rail, I digress.With these being very high output, you can get some pretty gnarly tones at mid gain, and some brutal sounds with even higher gain. Very cold sounding bridge pickup but a thick and sludgey neck pickup, can very easily cut well through a mix.Pick-ups specifically for black metal, what would you expect? Very good, just hard to control the tone.
redx
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021
Clear rich warm fat and powerful as hell. And you know what else? Coil split it. It has an amazing spanky single coil sound as well. Put them in an all-mahogany Gibson V with CTS push-pull pots for the coil split and it is an amazing and versatile machine. Clean with the tone rolled back a little is very sweet. I tend to overuse the bridge pickup but with these every combination sounds good, and some very different sounds are possible.
Ehsan
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2021
As a person on a cheapo guitar, the pickups eventually were becoming annoying with the amount of hum coming out of them and knew they were pretty cheaply made. When I found out about guitar upgrades, these were already up my street. I decided to pick these up mainly because it was marketed to Black Metal but personally I do play other genres too, and very happy with these sets.Comes with instructions and extra screws/nuts for you to either install them yourself or get a professional to do so. As soon as I got them adjusted and booted it up on my cheapo amp, I instantly could tell a difference, most of the hum was gone (I suppose now I need to get a better amp!) and the tone of my guitar just sounded way better.Even if you don't play Black Metal or whatever, these are a very good upgrades for any cheap pickups for guitars that do allow Humbuckers to be fitted into it (Sorry Fender users!)
Stef stef
Reviewed in France on April 30, 2021
Super micros !!acheté pour remplacer de vieux mic ibanez quel changement impressionnant du médium en veux tu en voila super précis dans la disto et supporte très bien un haut rendement de saturation parfait pour du métal bien enervé
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2020
The Seymour Duncan black winter is one of the best pickups you can buy. I personally put it on my Jackson Dinky js22 DKA, and the sound differences from the Jackson to the black winter is amazing. The pickups sound amazing in anyway you play them. Strangely enough they sound even better in clean tone. Installing them isn’t hard, and even I who am a novice in soldering was able to solder them onto my guitar. I would recommend check Seymour website for specifications for wiring.
CWD
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019
I threw these in a Gibson SG and they sound great. I like to shred a bit and play heavy but I also like to play Rock N Roll. These pickups covered both arenas. They can even do some Blues. They are hot, thick, and have plenty of clarity. But what was so surprising was how rich they are. They actually have monstrous tone. Yet they retain all the clarity and bite you need for metal. When you roll these off they clean up reasonably well too. New they could do the heavy stuff but was shocked at everything else they could do. Oh, 1 last thing, amazing lead tones in the neck and bridge. Good stuff.
Fernando G. P
Reviewed in Spain on January 11, 2018
Pastillas de ultra alta ganancia...graves presentes y contundentes...para tirar muros...con un palm mute aplastante...Màs salida y potencia q las SD Distortion, me han sorprendido gratamente
Matt Johnson
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016
These are some of my favorite pickups of all time. I have a variety of guitars, each with non-stock pickups. Everything from custom MJ-wound '59's to multiple Bare Knuckle offerings, to Lundgrens. The Black Winters, while designed specifically for the Black Metal crowd, do everything really well. I can go from brutal doomy chugs to beautiful post-rock ambience, to driven bluesy warmth, and to pristine cleans with an OD pedal and my volume knob. I've never put the same set of pups in multiple guitars until these and I had to force myself to not put them in a third guitar purely for variety's sake. My guitarist played my 7-string with BW's in it and immediately ordered himself a pair.In other words, yes, you want these. Yes, you will be happy with your choice. These are possibly the best pickups out there right now.
Recommended Products
$109.00
$ 53 .99 $53.99
$109.00
$ 52 .99 $52.99