Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded Humbucker - Black Set - High Output Electric Guitar Pickup

I had a Schecter C-1 with EMG X Series active pickups. I decided to put passive pickups and sold the EMGs on Ebay. For $130 you can't go wrong. All I had to do was install a mono jack and I used copper foil tape because the guitar did not have a hole for the ground that goes to the bridge. So I just took the ground wire and soldered it to some copper foil in the battery compartment. I don't have the luxury of turning an amp loud cause I live in an apartment, but I can assure you the sustain is pretty good. These pickups are good for metal and probably heavy blues. But like any high output pickups you can coil tap these or turn down the volume and play some very nice clean tones. Also what I noticed was that pickups that are not covered with a plate have a better sound. I hear more clarity. I simply never buy plated pickups, they cost more and I like the picking sound of my pick when it hits the strings. As I said earlier I have to play at lower volumes in my apartment. Glad I bought these. And remember you cannot judge Seymour Duncan pickups by just one kind, they all have there own outputs. So make sure you really check them out so you don't get disappointed. I had a Schecter Solo 6 with the Seymour Duncan SH-11 and '59. they were alright pickups but they did not have the output and clarity that these pickups have. Also they were plated. So be sure to check out how each pickup works and don't judge one set if you have not heard any of the others, common sense.

I have a late 90's Carvin SC90 W/ humbuckers & 2 coil splitting switches. It's a beautifully made guitar. Solid mahogany body w/ flame maple top. I hated the way it sounded. The pick ups(pups) are C-22's which are Carvin OEM. I decided to give the guitar one more chance before I got rid of it. I was going to install a Seymour Duncan JB & a '59 like I did with my Les Paul. As I was browsing on Amazon I found the Hot Rod Special (Seymour Duncan JB & Jazz). I went to the Seymour Duncan web site & listened to what the Jazz sounded like. Sounded good to me, so I placed the order with Amazon. I received the pups in 3 days. I had never rewired a guitar before, but got through it with no problems. The guitar is now a screamer. It sounds a lot like my Les Paul only a little hotter. The split coil settings give it a Tele type sound. With the Jazz in the neck position I get a very cool single coil sound that is great for chords & a crunch type setting on my amp (Rivera). I don't think I could have made a better choice. Remember, there is only one thing that translates what you play & that the pups. If they suck so does your sound.

If you are looking for a set of pickups to make a cheap guitar into something great, this is it. I installed these on my $500 Epiphone Les Paul Standard. The Jazz is typical classic Les Paul, warm, mellow and classic Slash when distorted. The JB breaks up easily, you can get everything from modern hard rock to classic ZZ-top style blues. I don't use clean tones very often so I can't comment too much but they sound great there as well. I also have both set up to coil-split and when I do it sounds eerily like a Tele. I'd recommend these pickups most to a rock guitarist, they aren't going to get a saturated modern metal tone without effects. These are both fantastic pickups and they made a cheap guitar into one of my favorites. They don't give you great tone "for the money" they just give you great tone.

Nice nice nice sound. I did all my own wiring. In total, this full setup with pickups and tuners and Babicz bridge and a few other tweaks took 16 hours. I lined the pockets with foil tape and installed a frame tuner as well as new pots and bridge. And I made an error that had to be fixed. This was a full setup. If it was just the pickups and wiring it would have been around 4 hours maybe less with standard wiring. I used the Jimmy Page style diagram from the SD website. It is complicated but the results are outstanding. There are so many sound styles available in this setup now! I used a standard soldering iron with silver solder. I used 22AWG stranded 600v teflon insulated wire. I used Bourns split top short 500k push/pull pots, a Musiclily 3 way toggle and a Dimarzio jack. Finally, I used a pair of .047uf 200v orange drop capacitors. All of which I bought here on Amazon. I've done 3 wiring jobs before. Solder is not that difficult and neither is following the diagram. As long as you aren't shorting out a connection (which I did and took 3 hours to find and fix) the result is awesome.

I recently bought a $150 Jackson DK. Everything was great, but it sounded too bright and thin for my liking. After a few months, I really began to dislike the sound. I saw all the YouTube videos of people replacing their cheap pickups with this set, and I really couldn't tell the difference. So I thought the wood (poplar body) was to blame for the ultra bright sound, and I was hesitant to buy these pups which cost as much as the guitar. But I figured if they don't make the Jackson sound good, then I will try them in my more expensive Gibson LP (the sound of which I already liked). I pulled the trigger, and these pups changed the sound quite a lot on the Jackson. It made the mid-range a lot clearer, and the high notes are still bright but not so annoyingly thin anymore. I really like playing it now. I now believe the Jazz/JB combo hype. It was well worth the price.

This came from Sweetwater, but they take way longer to deliver through their own site somehow. At any rate, I have these pickups in another guitar and they’re very different in this one. It’s become my number one thing right now. Great quality. The tone is so variable it’s totally different guitar with my swapping out of capacitors on the tone pots.

Dropped these in to rebuild a free guitar given to me by neighbor, very pleased with the output from these pickups, great warm low tones, and after a little research not very hard to install, if you are comfortable with soldering low voltage wires. These have deffinatley transformed this non working paperweight, into a functioning instrument.

I love these pickups. They can get various sounds and were very easy to install. I think they are worth there price and then some.