entwistle hdn pickups

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anyone tried or heard of these? i was given one today at work and dont wanna go through the trouble of installing if its not worth it, cant really find much info about this particular model on the net so I'm reaching out here...
 
Do you have a link to the pickups? Not many bass players on the forum, there are a few like me. John Entwistle was awesome, kind of curious about pickups with his name on them....
 
Im interested too. I just bought a mexican P bass on ebay yesterday. Im told they play good but the electronics suck. Ill soon find out for myself
 
You can type in entwistle pickups in Google and its the first link, the one I have has a neodenyum magnet and is very high output apparently
 
nobody has ever heard of these? well, i tried it in the bridge of a schecter and an ibanez rg guitar and all i can say is.......wow..........imagine a sledgehammer hitting a window......thats how the highs are, but not in an annoying way, it actually sounds GOOD, weird? i know....and the lows punch you in the gut harder and harder the more you increase volume, i cant believe my friend gave this to me!! and i looked on their site and they are only 60 bucks!!! i think these neodenyum magnets are gonna start making appearances in many popular pickup companies....i need to make some clips of the sound, unfortunately i havent installed them in any of my guitars, i have only been dropping them in some used guitars at guitar center :D
 
very much a ghost post but it's one of the top google hits for these and i bought them blind with hardly any reviews.
my styles are mostly, metal, rock, jazz, fingerstyle, and progressive anything. i have 12 years of playing experience and as much a gear nerd as i am an audiophile.

I purchased the entwistle HDN pickups from eyguitarmusic (they are going to discontinue them so buy them while they're on sale).
first run, i bought 2 sets thinking they were each... 30$/set struck me as impossibly cheap. i replaced the active EMG 81/60 set from my LTD EC-1000 and wired these puppies in with series/parallel phase taps. when they were all wired up i tried them out through my Digitech GSP1101> yamaha h50m monitors and was instantly pleased with definition clarity and articulation that i had never achieved with any active pickups or even alnico/ceramic for that matter. using them through my hughes and kettner tubemiester 18> 2x12 loaded with jensen jetts electric lightning was just as revitalizing of an experience, and my peavey triumph PAG60 (loaded with celestion g12-75) sounded at its best as well.

i had seen some talk on sevenstring.org where people had wished they were available in 7 and 8 string models, and after playing these for a month i was itching to get a pair of neos in my schecter c7! i contacted alan entwistle and he replied that they had no plans in the near future of making a 7 string model :( so i contacted Aaron at blackwater guitars for a set of custom handwound 7 string neos (available in 6,7, and 8 string). the blackwater pickups are 150$/set and an additional 10 dollars per pair per string and are voiced slightly different but i love them just as much, if not a little more, 160 ain't bad for a set of custom 7 string pickups but 30/pair for 6 string pickups is a STEAL

I went on to order another 3 sets and had friends begging me to buy them/install them and my friend's band is now endorsed by entwistle pickups which i wired in (i'll update when their new album is actually recorded with them.. previous recordings are iffy)

i just ordered 10 sets in the US due to the coming price increase and might sell them off in the US as well as use them in project builds.

feel free to ask specific questions, but here's a quick and dirty recording i had done with these (it kinda gets patchy near the end just going through random presets)
https://soundcloud.com/steven-chamberla ... e-hdn-test
 
everything i read about neodymium pickups for guitar tends to make mention of this, but its really nothing that you can't EQ the difference, which oddly enough tends to be closer to noon than most pickups i've used. my typical settings for clean is usually L-4 M-3 H-6 and drive channel L-4 M-3 H-6. for drive i find it's equivalent to running an overdrive pedal with full volume full tone and no drive. they don't distort much at all and they are silent in operation, but the tone character is pretty different, it's more full range, i find myself using more mids and bass in the EQ and less high which comes out as a smoother sounding balance, also i find the neck and middle positions of the switch more usable in different applications. also each humbucker has 12 adjustable pole pieces so you can easily adjust the screws to perfectly fit your needs.. i haven't much played with that but when i get my 7 sets in (previously stated as 10, they only had 7 left, i also got 3 sets of the dark star neos which i will update with a review when they come in ~2 weeks) i will toy around with that more in my other 6 and maybe do some soundclip updates
 
Amazing how all of the folks with relatively no post-count come out of the woodwork to endorse these awesome pickups that no one has heard of...
 
I mostly browse reddit r/guitar because its easier for mobile
 
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