SH-6 Mayhem Humbucker 2-piece Pickup Set - Black Review

Seymour Duncan mayhem set

Awesome pickups! I replaced the factory pickups in my Jackson Kelly with the Duncan's and they sound great!

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Killer pickups

These pickups are just what I was looking for in my Solo Iceman kit. They are hot, they scream just like you'd want them to for rock. Wiring was pretty easy and everything worked just like it should. They have great tone and variety when switching between them. I'd buy again without hesitation.

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The Mayhem Will Forever Reign!

I replaced a set of John Petrucci DiMarzio Illuminator pickups with these in my Schecter guitar, and the difference in sound is immediately apparent: The Seymour Duncans are warmer, smoother, and have a more pleasing vibe to them that the DiMarzios just can't touch. For any future metal guitars I may buy, these are going in by default. I don't even want to hear anything else.… read more A+ Awesome and highly recommended.

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VERSATILE PICKUP SET FOR MORE THAN METAL

I have this set of Seymour Duncan SH-6 humbucking pickups in three of my Jackson guitars and a Les Paul Special. I own over 100 SD pickups dispersed among my 60+ electric guitars. Regardless of hype about magnet material or anything else, this set of pickups can deliver beautiful clean sounds using a high quality direct box into the console or wicked distorted tones through tube… read more amps. Don't fear the ceramic magnets, they sound great. I love the APS and alnico products too but just judging off sound and tone these SH-6 pickups by SD are a great value and deliver incredible sound. Actually they ARE the sound I prefer over my '59 PAF models and Pearly Gates. All of them are great but for the widest range of tones I love these SH-6. They can make beautiful pinging clean tones or scream and sustain with the best of them. Great balance between the extremes. As others have said, these pickups respond very well to turning the volume on the guitar down, they still stay clean and crisp with the guitar down a bit. Other high output pickups I've used by DiMarzio have a dullness in the highs and they get worse with the guitar turned down. I've never experienced that with the SH-6 from Seymour Duncan, they stay brilliant and clear which is what I need in my original style of guitar playing. These are 4-wire so you can do coil tap trick wiring if you want, I choose to wire them as traditional humbucking pickups without coil tap. My amps are Marshalls, Boogies and EVH, my direct boxes are RND and KT, these pickups bring these amplifiers to life and sound magical through the direct boxes and Neve mixer. My Les Paul Special loaded up with the SH-6 sounds incredible, I regularly choose it over my 1980 Les Paul Standard or my '76 Les Paul Deluxe. The Special is much lighter in weight and these pickups set it on fire tonally speaking. Good luck in your own quest for pickup tone. Good music to you!

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Hot pickups.

He's biggest really add another dimension to my guitar. I dropped them into my Les Paul Standard and they are everything that I'm looking for. Nice thick tone just oozing with sustain. Turn down the volume a bit and you get that bell sound but that thick quality is still there. Just what I was looking for but could not get from any pedal. As usual Sweetwater's quick and Professional… read more Service was definitely the icing on the cake. Thank you Brad Jahn and everyone at Sweetwater.

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