Seymour Duncan Heavy Metal Pickups

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Seymour duncan heavy metal pickups. Built around an alnico v magnet the jb kicks out fat lows crisp highs and a crunch inducing hump in the upper midrange. With its infamous brain melting output level and headroom this pickup is so hot that we added a feature that gives you access to a second moderate output level. It is one of the best guitar pickups for 80s metal and paul gilbert dave murray adrian smith and phil collen are a few players who have made great use of this. Ah the stuff dreams are made of.
The invader s power comes from the combination of specially overwound coils three large ceramic magnets and its striking oversized metal oxide pole pieces. A pickup for blues for hard rock for jazz. Get it right and you can easily transform an average. No matter how dangerous your stock pickup claims to sound the invader will transform your guitar into the mean heavy sounding beast you always knew it could be.
It was seymour duncan s first offering and it remains a best selling favorite to this very day. Along with the seymour duncan jb the dimarzio super distortion is also one of the o g. But perhaps the most specific genre pickup in the seymour duncan catalog is the black winter. Swapping pickups is non permanent and one of the most affordable ways to upgrade your guitar.
Helping musicians find their signature sound since 1976. Imagine a bridge pickup with bright moderate output with a tight low end and scooped mids. Over on the seymour duncan facebook page recently we asked our fans what they consider to be the ultimate guitar for playing heavy metal we expected a wide variety of answers just secretly we knew there d probably be a few it doesn t matter it s the attitude that counts responses as well as a few specific models mentioned but some of the replies were so great that they. Hand crafted electric guitar pickups acoustic guitar pickups bass pickups and pedals.
Scott ian of. Metal pickups and it has seen considerable playtime on many records in the last few decades. Seymour duncan offers many different pickups for many different kinds of players and a lot of the time those pickups are built with a particular tonal mission in mind. Designed to push amps over the edge this musical sounding monster was set free in 1976.
While there s no arguing vintage style components can still add up to some glorious heavy tones pickups designed for metal come packing a more modern high output tone straight out of the box.