What are my experiences with Seymour Duncan pickups?
Current ownership:
- Lil' '59
- Hot Rhythm
- Classic Stack
- Quarter Pound
- Cool Rails
- Hot Rails
- Phat Cat
- P-Rails
- S P-90
- Distortion
- PATB Distortion
- Custom
- Custom Custom
- Custom 5
- Full Shred
- Screamin' Demon
- '59
- JB
- Jazz
- Alternative 8
- Blackout (active)
- Seymour Duncan IBZ (default in Ibanez SZ2020)
What I used to own:
Why a particular preference for Seymour Duncan? These pickups propel clarity in both clean & overdriven modes, they manifest the guitar's inherent voicings well through the amplifier. This is important for me as I observe a straight through set up most of the time, the pickups in there should provide the allowance to hear my guitars in action & not let the processed output overwhelm the outcome at the amplifier.
11 comments:
planning to acquire invader SH8 somewhere in the near future. pls share some pros/cons about this pickup... or any other recommendations?
Hello!
Just curious how come you didn't like (I assume) the Alnico II pro's?
Also, any feedback on SSL-1's...thinking of ditching stock MIJ Fender pups..
Cheers..and once again a top blog indeed
/salute
Ijau sir: the Invader has a menacing deep voicing you'd love if you chug your notes with lots of distortion. many people think it has a scooped EQ by default but if you refer to Duncan's tone charts, the treble has been truncated with more mids added. the bass is leeser than the mids- that's the Invader offerings for you. also, be informed that the strings won't align directly above the pickup's pole pieces due to its larger caps.
i like all the Duncans i've tried, the Invader & Alnico II included. these were resident in a certain Ibanez guitar, when i put the instrument up for sale, the buyer requested i keep the pickups in tact & he agreed to pay a little more for them to be there.
Fender pickups, Jap or otherwise serve the Fender tone very well. for some of us, we need our Fenders to be more dynamic, especially so if we dial in lots of distortion into our set up, this is where the Fender single coils could sometimes not perform up to expectations.
the SSL-1 gives off that clunky strat tone we love to hear & has a fair performance when it comes to driven tones. any excessive distortion in there & you'd hear some saturated top end without much bass. in this light, i'd recommend the Classic Stack Plus (STK-S4) for an overall balanced performance- assuming you have some drive/ distortion applications, of course. remember, the STK-S4 does not hum in this aspect. the reason i love it!
Hello again!
Thanks for imparting yet again some interesting insight...quite hard to try pickups sometimes as they're not the most easy of things to pick up in a store and try (pun absolutely intended)
when i started, there weren't any sound clips to refer to unlike the situation today... :-)
Duncan Rules!!!
I'm a big fan of Duncan Distortion .
the Distortion is a great pickup, even the neck version is appealing.
necromancing this entry's comment :)
bro, need recommendation(s) to duncanized my HSS mirage, especially the SS part. as usual, i play heavy metal and classic rock stuff
bro- do you need the S for cleans? what do you expect from them?
something like tesla plasma-2 neck version's sound
yup, mostly for clean picking/strumming stuff
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