Seymour Duncan SH-5 Duncan Custom Guitar Pickup Zebra

I love this pickup so much I bought a second one so I could have one in both of my guitars. This pickup has a great distorted tone. It contributes the right amount of breakup to the gain on your amp or pedal. With this pickup, I can get a great distorted tone plugging directly into my amp (Marshall TSL100 running KT77 power tubes) with no pedals. Expect tight, well-defined, chunky lows, articulate highs and be able to pull artificial harmonics with almost no effort. I play a lot of modern rock, punk and metal influenced music - this pu is just right for my playing style.The pickup also sounds really good with the coils split. I love playing clean and was pleasantly surprised by this pu's clean character if the coils are split. Running on a single coil gives a darn good country sound. The open, airy, chimey quality of the split coil on my clean channel comes close to the quality of my $140 TV Jones neck pickup.Another great feature of this pickup is that it sounds great with other magnets. So if the ceramic magnet is too high output for you then you can swap it for another magnet to get a completely different sound out of this pickup. SD sells them with A5 and A2 magnets under different names. The A5 magnet sounds absolutely beautiful when clean, but doesn't contribute enough breakup to the distorted tone. I also tried an A8 magnet for a while and it sounded ok too, but not as great as with the ceramic magnet that it comes with.Overall, you can't go wrong with this pu. If you don't like the voicing simply buy a new magnet and swap for a completely different sound.

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