Seymour Duncan Black Winter Humbucker Pickup - Set

As you'd expect, when the packaging looks menacing and these are called "Black Winters" you know you're in for a treat. I had these put in an Ibanez RG that has a HSH pick-up config, for the nerds out there I put a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder in the middle, although I may change it for a hot rail, I digress. With these being very high output, you can get some pretty gnarly tones at mid gain, and some brutal sounds with even higher gain. Very cold sounding bridge pickup but a thick and sludgey neck pickup, can very easily cut well through a mix. Pick-ups specifically for black metal, what would you expect? Very good, just hard to control the tone.

I'd take these over actives any day. I love EMGs but these sound almost as clean, and I enjoy them better.

I play a lot of Extreme Metal subgenres and these things are perfect for all things Extreme Metal. The coil split tone is very unique and different from a lot of the traditional medium & high output pickups. I can get a very strange clean guitar similar to something like the clean tone like Pantera's Floods, or even Death's Lack of Comprehension. If you're into the Animals as Leaders overdriven "thumping" tone, you can achieve a great unique version of those type of tones. Seymour Duncan initially made these pickups for more Black Metal sounds than anything else and it shows, there's a lot of clarity despite high gain tones. I actually played a friend's 8 string guitar with the Black Winter installed and I could hear each of the individual 8 string's note, you can play wide open chords and hear it vividly even with a scooped mid tone. The neck is surprisingly very versatile, I'm not entirely sure where it lies on the output range but it seems to be more of medium output from what I can audibly tell. My only complaint is the bridge pickup is not versatile but then again, what do you expect from an Extreme Metal pickup geared towards Black Metal tones. You're not gonna get any Jazz or Blues tones from the bridge although the neck will be able to. If you play Extreme Metal, get this pickup, you will not regret it. If you play anything outside of Extreme Metal, I would recommend doing a lot of research or even playing a guitar with it installed. If you're looking for something versatile for an all-around guitar, you'll be happy with the neck, you will not be happy with the bridge.

Clear rich warm fat and powerful as hell. And you know what else? Coil split it. It has an amazing spanky single coil sound as well. Put them in an all-mahogany Gibson V with CTS push-pull pots for the coil split and it is an amazing and versatile machine. Clean with the tone rolled back a little is very sweet. I tend to overuse the bridge pickup but with these every combination sounds good, and some very different sounds are possible.

I threw these in a Gibson SG and they sound great. I like to shred a bit and play heavy but I also like to play Rock N Roll. These pickups covered both arenas. They can even do some Blues. They are hot, thick, and have plenty of clarity. But what was so surprising was how rich they are. They actually have monstrous tone. Yet they retain all the clarity and bite you need for metal. When you roll these off they clean up reasonably well too. New they could do the heavy stuff but was shocked at everything else they could do. Oh, 1 last thing, amazing lead tones in the neck and bridge. Good stuff.

I love these pickups. I ordered the set, which arrived in good time, properly packaged and sealed. I do wish that we could have the option of having the choice between the Trembucker version for the Bridge position, though. I could have used it for the guitar I put it in, my 2010 Ibanez JEM 7VWH. These pickups accentuate the blazing fast attack and riffage of Extreme Metal very well. I still love my EMG equipped Gibson Les Paul (81 regular in Bridge/81X Series in Neck), but these Black Winters really opened up the tonal spectrum on my JEM. Such a great sounding set of pickups. These seem to be best suited for Extreme Metal not Nu-Metal or anything like that. Bands like Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Soilwork, Superjoint Ritual and Immortal would represent the kind of music that these pickups work best for. Take the dive and get a set now! They completely blow Bareknuckle Pickups out of the water.

not the color or quality I expected

The Seymour Duncan black winter is one of the best pickups you can buy. I personally put it on my Jackson Dinky js22 DKA, and the sound differences from the Jackson to the black winter is amazing. The pickups sound amazing in anyway you play them. Strangely enough they sound even better in clean tone. Installing them isn’t hard, and even I who am a novice in soldering was able to solder them onto my guitar. I would recommend check Seymour website for specifications for wiring.

Fantastico set di pickup che mi ha sorpreso in positivo superando molte aspettative. .Output veramente molto alto, nettamente superiore a molti altri pickup moderni heavy che possiedo .Il pickup al manico è lo stesso pickup presente al ponte però reversed .I due single coil che compongono l humbucker hanno voci ed impasti molto diversi l'una dall altra, prima volta che mi trovo in possibilità di usare veramente lo split con una delle due bobine e cambiare tanto il suono rimanendo comunque sempre con una timbro ed feeling equilibrato ed utilizzabile, ne ho provati tanti di pickup e di tutte le marche boutique, sono i primi che hanno un suono fantastico sia un HB che SC .Suono dei pickup, ignorate le indicazioni ufficiali, ha la grana sporca e grassa di un vintage con una pronuncia sulle medio basse medie leggermente a V morbide ed acuti presenti ma non acidi, lontano da un A shape di un pickup metal moderno tipo BK Nailbomb, ma ha un leggero V shape che ricorda quello che si ottiene con l EQ del Mesa Marl V applicato su un pickup JB o simili, in single coil ha un suono caldo di un sovravvolto con un timbro oltre che convincente, suona meglio di moltissimi SC hot texas provati. Molto versatile ed uno dei pochi fruibili sia in coil slip sulle singole bobine e nell out of phase anche sugli humbucker manico+ponte, perfettamente utilizzabile anche in situazioni Jazz e Rock senza avere quell impressione di suono forzato nel genere. Sono diventati uno dei set che preferisco versatilità esagerata, montati sia su chitarre downtuning heavy che su chitarre similstrato con ponte, ci suono di tutto e con tutto, sia con ampli high gain che vintage, ci faccio sia high gain, rock, blues che jazz.

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Ich suchte nach einem Passiv-Ersatz für mein EMG 81/85 Set... und bin hier fündig geworden. Das Black Winter Set ist perfekt für härtere Genres. Der Bridge Pickup hat brutalen Output und schneidet durch jeden Mix, der Neck ist sehr klar ohne Matsch. Alles bleibt definiert. Verarbeitung wie immer bei Seymour Duncan makellos. Wer’s heavy will, findet hier sein Zuhause.

As a person on a cheapo guitar, the pickups eventually were becoming annoying with the amount of hum coming out of them and knew they were pretty cheaply made. When I found out about guitar upgrades, these were already up my street. I decided to pick these up mainly because it was marketed to Black Metal but personally I do play other genres too, and very happy with these sets. Comes with instructions and extra screws/nuts for you to either install them yourself or get a professional to do so. As soon as I got them adjusted and booted it up on my cheapo amp, I instantly could tell a difference, most of the hum was gone (I suppose now I need to get a better amp!) and the tone of my guitar just sounded way better. Even if you don't play Black Metal or whatever, these are a very good upgrades for any cheap pickups for guitars that do allow Humbuckers to be fitted into it (Sorry Fender users!)

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