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Jp
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2024
Put these in my MIM Jaguar. Worthy upgrade. I will provide an update in a month or so.
Spideywall
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024
I got these and was very excited to replace my Jackson stock pickups. Took everything apart and I installed them. After plugging them in, I got no sound fron the bridge pickup. Thinking I did something wrong on the install, I took them to The Guitar Center and had their guitar tech check them. The tech stated I did a great job installing them, but the bridge pickup was faulty. I returned them for a replacement for the same pickups. Hopefully these will work this time. I'll update this after I install the replacements. As of 07/10/24, I did the return and got the replacement. I installed it and had the Guitar Center hook up the wires. Bamm! The replacements worked!! The sound of these vs my stock pickups are just amazing!! Clean and crisp distortion. Although it was a nightmare in the beginning, these are worth the wait. Added a Floyd Rose Original Tremlo and this guitar is now Fire!
Great product! Fast delivery.
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2024
Perfect upgrade for stock V7 V8 pickups. Now this particular guitar became favorite. Good metal tone. Fast delivery, nice seller!
M
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2024
JBs are the same price and have much better sound quality. These are good but for the same price ill take the JBs.
Zai
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
Put em in a Kelly/Explorer project I’m working on. First off these are really high gain and really high output. Clean tones sound great, have a sort of pop to them and the distortion channel brings out the real sound. Overall they’re definitely worth the money, pretty easy to install save for that I had to drill out one of the holes to attach it to the mounting hardware.
Al S
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024
I replaced some stock Duncan Designed humbuckers with these because for the high-gain stuff I wanted to play, the Duncan Designed just got too muddy. These give a higher output and really makes for fat distortion but with clarity and edge while still being smooth.I will say that on clean channels I had to lower the gain from my older settings because they get dirty easily.These are 4-wire so I was able to coil split them just like the stock DD pickups were, and they sound good that way, too.I plan on buying a couple more sets for some other guitars, but am waiting for the price to drop because they're just too much at this point in time, I had gotten them for significantly less.
Kelly McMahon
Reviewed in Canada on July 20, 2022
These pick ups are not for jazz, they are not for country, they are for mayhem. Just mean sounding and with so much sustain compared to the stock. Made a 400$ guitar into now one of my faves to play in my collection.
Jason
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2021
I bought these as I've had my Epiphone Les Paul for over 20 years and the pickups were a little old, needed repotting as they were getting microphonic and overall just a little muddy sounding. Thought I'd go all in with some decent pickups and Seymour Duncans are amongst the best there are, certainly at this price range.They are definitely a little more scooped than the originals, but have more attack and clarity too. Probably wouldn't want to play jazz or blues with these, but for rock and metal, they are plenty aggressive.The instructions that came were very clear and it didn't take long to wire them in, maybe half-an-hour per pickup. It definitely helps to have some patience and to know how to solder as you'll need to tin and solder 10 leads in all. Watch some YouTube videos on soldering first!
rajola giuseppe
Reviewed in Italy on July 9, 2020
finalmente quello che cercavo, potenza gain volume ,ho montato questi pick up sulla mia gibson....fantasticiamerete la vostra chitarra ....suono rock metal tagliente....metallica per intenderci ...ma molto rock slash..potete suonare di tutto.spero di essere stato utile.
Kiki
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2020
I bought the pair to upgrade my Dean Hardtail. The difference in my cleans are amazing right away! Distortion required me to add a little more drive and verb to bring out the full tone compared to my previous pickups. The sound is much tighter now and my upgrade will make my guitar my new favorite. One thing to note is the wiring configuration was the opposite from my old pickups. I have coil taps and the existing wiring was done differently than the seymour duncan diagram I got from their support page for my configuration. I did a combination of both following the wiring diagram by matching the colors to their appropriate locations and keeping it similar to my exisiting pickup configuration and the results were perfect.
renoboyd
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2018
All this taken with a grain of salt. These are DISTORTION pickups. With that in mind, they are excellent imho. I find it funny that for my application, I had to go online and get wiring diagram from SD. Having done so I have and NECK, BRIDGE and no combo option so I either didnt have the right diagram or muffed it up. As odd as it sounds, l will leave it this way, and I now have a silent option on the switch. SOOOO much output and distortion, no reason to change it for now. VERY VERY HIGH output. If you want metal hard rock sounds, this will do it. If you want clean this might not be the way to go. Excellent pickups tho.
Fran
Reviewed in Spain on December 2, 2018
Seymour duncan sinónimo de la máxima calidad, un sonido tremendo con una cálida ganancia, yo tengo las típicas jb-jazz en otra guitarra y diré que estas suenan más agresivas, menos vintage y menos cálidas, están pensadas para sonido más metal, por eso las compré para un modelo de guitarra de tilo y mástil arce, las jb-jazz las tengo en una de construcción típica de caoba con tapa arce. Muy recomendables, en especial aprovechando una oferta como me pasó a mi 111€, y además así en pack salen a un precio inmejorable.
spada
Reviewed in France on August 27, 2016
Montés sur une vielle guitare Yamaha RGX 421D, ils ont métamorphosé cette dernière, j'ai même pu garder le micro simple bobinage d'origine (micros de micros HSH).Les micros sont assez faciles à changer, il suffit de savoir souder, les schémas de câblage sont fournis par Seymour Duncan.Seule difficulté : ces micros étant moins épais que ceux d'origine et les systèmes de fixation n'étant pas compatible, j'ai du trouver des vis et des ressorts adaptés à ces nouveaux micros.NB ce sont des micros conçus pour jouer avec des effets de distorsion. Sans cela, le son n'est vraiment pas terrible...
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