Seymour DuncanBlack Winter Humbucker Pickup - Set

Seymour Duncan Black Winter Humbucker Pickup - SetThese pickups turned a little played SG into the go to guitar. For heavy tuned down riffs these are magic. Not only can they get super heavy and distorted they can also be crystal clear. I have a ton of passive and active pickups, these are currently one of my favorites.

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.

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.

Let me preface by saying I was replacing a cheap set of pickups.The difference with these wasn't night and day, but there was a noticeable increase in frequency response.With the old pickups I had my tone knob all the way up, with these I need to dial it back a little. These pickups pick up more of the sound than the old ones did.

Theses are my absolute favorites. I have them in a basswood body Jackson with rosewood fret board. Not exactly an ideal guitar for me. It sounds so good though. I play death metal/core. Also have a Schechter Blackjack in drop A with Nazgul/Sentient. My Jackson in Drop D sounds way more brutal. I absolutely love it. The odd thing is that the cleans sound just as good. I play a lot more cleans now with these in it. If you play heavy music these will do it. If you play non heavy music these will do it. Not sure how they did it. I hope they make a White Winter set in the future so I don't have the exact same looking pickup in every guitar. This is the first time I ever tuned a guitar back up from a lower tuning. They are that good.

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.

This was used on a kit project. I must say, these pups are very dark with distortion. Probably could have used a lower rated cap on the tone pot. But, on clean it has a very warm acoustic tone.

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.

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.

I have always used the Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. So my reference is perhaps against those.These black winters thus do not sound as 'full body' or 'warm' as the Invaders, and have a bit more brightness.These can perhaps come across as a little bit "ice pick" harsh sounding. But at the same time, this is one of the features of a pickup designed for use in Metal genres of music where you want to have the high gain and "chug" sounds.Now, tone is one of those subjective things, and everyone will have an opinion of what sounds good to them.To me, these perform a little bit better for the very high gain sounds for metal, than the invaders do. But your experience will have a lot to do with the amplifier that you are also using, where the EQ and colorization of the sound from your speakers play a more significant role than the pickups do, right.For me, these were just as easy to install as any other humbucker pickup.I would say, if you have a guitar with stock pickups, like Ibanez and their notoriously terrible INF series pickups, definitely get these!.But if you already have good pickups, like some other Seymour Duncan, BareKnuckle, or PRS, that if you are going for a stronger metal sound, that you should perhaps look into what you can upgrade in your amp instead, as these black winters are only incrementally better here.

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!)

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