Seymour Duncan SH-15 Alternative 8 Humbucker Electric Guitar Pickup Gold Cover

the alt 8 is great for what i do. it has plenty of output and handles high gain very well. it has a well defined midrange and high treble response,which i find sounds great in drop tunings like drop C and B without getting to "Mushy" and cleans up very nicely too . i would recommend this in a guitar with a warm tonewood like Mahogany, it may not be your cup of tea if you play fenders in standard tuning. i also recommend the SH-1n 59 model as your neck pickup as it has a very tight midrange and balances out beautify. one last thing i will add, CHECK YOUR BRIDGE SPACING! don't assume because you have a hard tail, that you need humbucker spacing. i had to send mine back to get the wider trembucker spacing. guitar center was very helpful with handling my return and getting the correct pickup in a very timely manner, so bonus points for that. i would indeed recommend this pickup to anyone why likes a modern hard edge sound and still wants the more natural tone of the AlNiCo magnet.

The Title says it all. I would not put this in an explorer or and mahogany dark sounding guiding guitar. I put it into a bolt on RR guitar I built. It is one of the best pickups for metal I have ever played. 'Nuff said.

I have always used the SH-4 JB as a replacement bridge pick up but gave the SH-15 a try in an Epi SG and it immediately became my new favorite. It has the crunch of the JB with a lower treble. You must have the correct height to the strings for the optimum tone and once there you can achieve limitless tones with the adjustment of your volume knob. This is a very high gain pickup but actually does clean up very well. I do not play metal but think it could easily do it. I do know you can go from crystal clean to heavy duty rock with slight volume/tone pot adjustments on your guitar. I really like this pick up and have ordered more for other guitars in my arsenal. This one is a keeper.

Okay, so I work in a guitar shop and I switch out pickups and restring blah, blah, blah. So this guy walks in and wants to have one put in the bridge for a Jackson Rhoads RR3. I wired it, cleaned the guitar, and restrung it, then I played one riff on it and I almost sent this tainted guitar into the ground, this thing had the worst tone I had ever heard and I had found nothing wrong with the instrument while I worked on it. Mid range is this pickup's real name, the mids are astonishingly high and it is near impossible to dial in a good tone, needless to say, I offered him a free wiring and his money back since he bought it from me a week or so before, then he got an Invader or a Dimebucker or something. Now I'm sending all of these stupid things back to Seymour Duncan so they can think about what they've done.