Seymour Duncan

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I have a custom custom in the bridge of a Celtic fender its so so sounding through my dual rec what is this a good pickup or should I try something else?
 
That pickup sounds best in a bright guitar. It can sound muddy in darker guitars. Nice in a Charvel but not a good fit for an LP.
 
Duncan Distortion is my favorite Seymour Duncan pickup. It's thick in the mids and tight in the lows with just the right amount of top end.
 
-DIMARZIO-drop sonic or air Norton,....call them,..tell them what sound your looking for,..they will ask you a million questions,..then suggest a pick up...

-I did the whole pup chase,..tried everything and anything,..made the mistake of listening to people on guitar forums,...ended up putting the stock pup back in the bridge position of my SG,...in a last ditch effort,..i called DIMARZIO,...told them the sound I was chasing,..and was shoked when he suggested the D-SONIC,...I said,.."i use standard tuning with super light 9's',..he said "if ya don't like it send it back".....it's the best bridge pick up for a SG I have ever had,...
 
See I made the mistake of buying all these modded guitars from my tech but his sound is not necessarily my sound so I am kind of at a drawing board situation on all my guitars and I sold my explorer like a dumb ass it was the only guitar he modded that I really liked
 
You have to pare the guitar pickups with the wood of your guitar. If the wood tone is on the bright side then maybe you have to choose something like a moderate output pickup to balance out the tone. If your guitar wood tone is on the low end then you should choose a higher output pickup. I have put in a Seymour Duncan TB5 into my Charvel Socal and the tone on this guitar has a lot of mids and no top end. The TB5 is a moderate output like the Custom Custom. I have also installed a Slash Alnico II pickup into another guitar and that sounded thin too. Both of these Charvel guitars has Alder as body wood. I'm assuming that your double cut guitar has a mahogany body so I would try a higher output pickup such as a Suhr Doug Aldrich. One of the forum member has posted a comparison of a Duncan Distortion vs a Suhr Doug Aldrich pickup below.

 
Duncan Distortion gets my vote. I have one in my Charvel So-Cal, love it. Girthy and meaty sounding. It gets pretty aggressive and stays tight. I'm thinking of ripping the EMG's out of my KH2 and putting a distortion and jazz combo in it.
 
Avi8r2005":jj7obgu1 said:
Duncan Distortion gets my vote. I have one in my Charvel So-Cal, love it. Girthy and meaty sounding. It gets pretty aggressive and stays tight. I'm thinking of ripping the EMG's out of my KH2 and putting a distortion and jazz combo in it.
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What don't you like about the EMG pickups? I'm thinking about ordering a 7 string guitar with EMG pickups. I like that low thumping sound on the 7 string and the EMG pickups doesn't seem to sound muddy when tuning down to D or C.
 
They're good pick-ups but my tastes have changed. I guess the only thing I can think of to describe them is being one dimensional. They seem to lack the character of passives. I used to really like them but as my tastes have evolved and ear has changed, I've grown to like the reaction and sounds of passives much better. Just rolling off the volume knob on a passive gives it a different sound and character. Seems like EMG's you roll the volume back and its the same sound, just less output, if that makes sense. If I do take them out of my KH2, i'll keep them as it is a very first run of the guitar from the 90's so I still want to be able to put it back to stock if I ever want to again. Its a neck thru body so may take some experimenting to find the pickups I like in it. I'm leaning to a Duncan distortion but not sure if it will sound as good in that guitar as it does other guitars.
 
Don't forget pup height has a lot to do with the sound. Small adjustments will make a big difference. Even the same model pup in different guitars requires a little tweaking.
 
anomaly":178an8vw said:
Duncan Distortion is my favorite Seymour Duncan pickup. It's thick in the mids and tight in the lows with just the right amount of top end.
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I second this! I just put one in my strat and it has just the right amount of everything :yes: Love it!
 
I had an x2n in my explorer favorite pickup I've messed with since my departure from EMGs however I think it's because it's a bit emg like it's self. So the Duncan distortion intrigues me how's it compare to those 2 pickups?
 
BigBellyRocker":1obo3475 said:
You have to pare the guitar pickups with the wood of your guitar. If the wood tone is on the bright side then maybe you have to choose something like a moderate output pickup to balance out the tone. If your guitar wood tone is on the low end then you should choose a higher output pickup. I have put in a Seymour Duncan TB5 into my Charvel Socal and the tone on this guitar has a lot of mids and no top end. The TB5 is a moderate output like the Custom Custom. I have also installed a Slash Alnico II pickup into another guitar and that sounded thin too. Both of these Charvel guitars has Alder as body wood. I'm assuming that your double cut guitar has a mahogany body so I would try a higher output pickup such as a Suhr Doug Aldrich. One of the forum member has posted a comparison of a Duncan Distortion vs a Suhr Doug Aldrich pickup below.

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Cool vid - what is the second song he uses in these example? I know the first one is "Armed and Ready" by MSG.
 
^when your using that much gain I don't know how you guys tell a single coil from a humbucker? I couldn't make out a difference in that video. Maybe my ears are shot.. lol
 
BigBellyRocker":3semjhnw said:
You have to pare the guitar pickups with the wood of your guitar. If the wood tone is on the bright side then maybe you have to choose something like a moderate output pickup to balance out the tone. If your guitar wood tone is on the low end then you should choose a higher output pickup.
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What? :salute:
 
Another thing to consider is the amp that you're going into; the Recto is a thick amp, and a thicker pickup like a C2 might end up being muddy.
 
If you guys like the Distortion, you'll probably like the Black Winter even better. I'm a huge Distortion lover and after getting my first BW, I think I'm done buying Distortions from now on. That and the Nazgul, I really like that one too.
 
The CC is great at taming a bright guitar or a bright amp. It can be way dark in the wrong guitar/amp combo. If you're playing through an overly bright Marshall, the CC can bitch slap that bad boy into submission. With a Mark IV they sound great. With a recto, you may be in for mud city. Guitar/pickup/amp. They all have to work together.
 
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