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Oscar Real
Reviewed in Mexico on March 6, 2025
Muy buen tono y bastante salida, tenía instalada una copia de AliExpress de esta misma pastilla y realmente es mejor la original.
Bhadz
Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2024
Sounds great
David G
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024
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Mark Taylor
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024
This pickup does what it was designed to do, with no apologies made! It’s loud and hot! Very reactive, sensitive to adjustment. I love mixing it with the neck (SH-2 at 90%) pickup to get it some sing and fatness. You have to turn the neck down to taste, let the crunch through:) I’m buying more of these guys so I decided to leave a comment
Mark
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2024
It sounds mean. Really intensifies palm muting crunch. Chug Chug Chug.....That's the main thing I noticed. And it looks mean. But it's bad ass for a decent price. I didn't have any problems installing it because there is a video on their site explaining how.
Wosinddiesaiten
Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2024
Verpackung zerkratzt und mit Tesa verschlossen, Pickup vermackt. Saiten, die zum Lieferumfang gehören, fehlen.Schade.
Matthew Farrell
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022
I'd heard these were good for heavy metal, but unfortunately I didn't actually try them out in a guitar shop before buying them.It didn't matter if it was clean or with distortion, the tone on this is super sharp, harsh, and trebbly -- and not in a good way. Even heavily EQing my amp to boost the bass in compensation didn't help. The result is close to unlistenable... at least for what I'm shooting for sound-wise. I'm getting rid of them and switching to something else first chance I get.
Tommy
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2022
I used this pick-up back when it came out in the 80's. More recently I bought a Jackson JS series guitar and I felt I needed to juice up the tone so I went back to the old faithful Seymour Duncan "Invader" and made my axe come alive with that familiar heavy grind and punchy tone I've been missing in the bridge position. You can play it with high gain and even sounds good on a clean amp setting. Great all around pick-up for heavy rock, metal or fusion.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022
Overall I really love this pickup. This makes it a little easier to dial in that 80’s Metallica tone that you might be looking for.One thing that I do have to mention is pinch harmonics do sound a lot different. My previous Jackson ‘Duncan Designed’ which I replaced with the invader could get that high pitched squeal with ease. I’m using the same exact amp setting as before and it seems to struggle getting that same high pitched sustained squeal. Thankfully I have a boss Katana so I should be able to get it worked out.
Geoffrey Bennett
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022
If you are a fan of 80’s medium-heavy stuff like Megadeth and Metallica, this is the pickup for you. I actually have a set of EMG 81/60 and frankly I’m not impressed. In fact, it is rumored that Master of Puppets (you know, the greatest metal album of all time) was recorded with these very pickups. That guitar tone is one of the greatest ever recorded and people attempt to emulate it all the time. Dave Mustaine uses pickups that are also Seymour Duncan’s, with not quite as much output, but similar I imagine. If you’re into extreme stuff, the death metal band Nile also uses these, so they are versatile. And in my personal opinion, they have plenty of clarity and articulation as well. The neck pickup in the set really takes it back a notch so you can get traditional lead tones. I know these aren’t the most common pickups used by artists but if you are intrigued do not hesitate to give these a shot. Just throw them in a guitar you don’t play much as a change up sound and it will instantly become top of the rotation. Can’t say enough about these. I only would not recommend if you’re playing blues or something with extreme clarity. Even then, the neck pickup can handle those jobs in a pinch.
Marc
Reviewed in Australia on January 10, 2021
Super awesome pick up! Fast shipping and yes it is white regardless of what the description says.
Homero Guerrero
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2017
I own a Fender Stratocaster HSS that has been good to me for a long time now. The sounds quality while playing clean on the single coils is awesome in my opinion. The stock humbucker was a slightly different story. I mean, they still sound good but I wanted a "hot" humbucker pickup that would satisfy my Hard Rock/Metal needs.Here comes the Seymour Duncan SH-8B Invader pickup. I purchased it not really knowing how it was going to sound but the reviews (and look) are what helped me buy this humbucker. It was definitely the right move. After a couple hours of "amateur" installation, along with cleaning of the guitar and parts, this pickup looked awesome on my Olympic White Strat. Paired with my Peavey Scorpion 175w Amp, the pickup was SCORCHIN! I was honestly surprised the difference it made on my guitar. The sounds quality is still great even with the hot fuzz and distortion (I enjoy playing Lamb of God, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, etc). The clarity of the pinch harmonics, finger tapping, and palm mutings on this pickup are much, much better than my stock humbucker.Only bad thing I would have to say is I had to drill another hole for this pickup to fit but that was due to the odd screw placements on the old humbucker (2 holes on the left, 1 on the right?!?)Just reviewing it got me excited. Dang, now I wanna go play guitar....
M. D. Harris
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2013
I got this to put into a Squier Bullet Strat which I was modding into something similar to Tom Delonge's signature Strat. In white with black allen bolts the Invader pickup certainly looks the part (see picture), and the included wiring instructions were nice and clear too. Better still, on the Seymour Duncan website you can input your intended set-up (in my case one humbucker pickup and one pot) and it will give you a clear wiring diagram for that particular set-up. Most impressed.Installation was easy, although I was surprised by how thin the wires were, and as such a delicate hand is needed to strip them prior to soldering.With everything in place and the guitar plugged in the Invader SH-8b certainly does not lack power or aggression, making it ideal for punk, grunge and metal. Given it's high output it's pretty easy to drive my little Blackstar HT1-R amp into a crunchy break-up without the needing to press the overdrive button, and harmonic squeals were all too easy. Unsurprisingly it's not great at clean tones, so if you're after an all rounder you will probably want to look elsewhere in Seymour Duncan product range.The Invader is very much an 'all guns blazing' type of pickup and certainly in my minimalist Strat a bit of a one trick pony - but what a trick!
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