Blindfolded Pickup Challenge - My favourite revealed
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Blindfolded Pickup Challenge - My favourite revealed
Seymour Duncan invited me to visit and work on a new pickup for Chapman Guitars, such an amazing experience and one I'll never forget! I blindfold tested 5 different pickups and found one that I absolutely loved - Can you guess what it was?
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Great having you over Rob!
Guessing this is Ruben? love you guys hope you are all doing well, missing the Santa Barbara food! :-)
@@RobChappers oh yeah it's me! Miss you too!
Does the Duncan Distortion have the biggest ceramic magnet possible? :)
7:40 multiple videos where Rob can smell colors blinfolded, this is eerie
I was caught by surprise how good the Invader sound in your playing. Mind blowingly good!
Remember always wanting one as a kid because of Tom Delonge 😅
That's crazy. I always assumed the invader would be unruly and unpleasant. But as soon as you started playing pickup number two, I too was like...that's the one. And the poles had me fooled because I just saw big, gold lugs, I didn't realize they were the big, Allen headed invader screws. I couldn't wait to find out what it was and hoped it was a standard model. Never would have guessed "invader". 30+ years of dismissing that pickup and now I'm 🤯.
I like 2 the best as well. A nice hearty mid with plenty of good high end and more clarity. HOWEVER, that #4 in split middle position was something else. It’s so hard to get that kinda tone but retain more clarity across all the strings. Purring was such an apt description of that sound
It makes me happy to see more appreciation for the Invader. One of the most misunderstood and under-appreciated pickups.
Yep. I played Invaders for years on a cheap Ibanez I bought used. Cheap guitar that played well with these beautiful pickups.
Wow, the invader was the first good pickup I used over 20 years ago. I still have one in a Les Paul. I’m dropping a set in my 2017 ML3 Pro Modern. They just sound so good.
I know what works in the neck position with the Invader: A NEW CHAPPERS BLINDFOLD TEST!
The invader is super balanced. Great mids and highs. I think pairing it with a different pickup might be a killer combo.
Totally agree with your choice. Apparently people are saying you also need to try Black Winters. Might wanna do a follow up to test BW's against Invaders before making a final decision, but I have a feeling you'd still like the Invaders best!
The invader was the pickups that Synyster Gates used before he made his custom ones with Schecter.
Rob great challenge , its funny how we listen with our eyes and hearts sometimes , the blindfold really gets you to take in the sounds from your playing and the amps response to the pickups in the guitar , its amazing how the woods and outputs of the pickups and magnets really affect the sounds we hear , Seymour Duncan make so many great pickups! I love how you found a new p/u to throw in that beautiful guitar !
Wow that was freakin awesome.....you got it Rob....
I've said for years that the Invader is one of the best, some people tend to have a preconceived opinion on it based on its specs but I think it's killer and pretty versatile. Fun video Rob, nice one!
Nothing can match blindfolded Rob videos 🙂
That sounds so so wrong!!!haha
I agree with your description of the sound of the pickups even though it's over UA-cam yada, yada, yada, and I liked the Invader the most as well and now I need to try them out.
Interesting demo. Looking forward to ML1 or ML3 Pro Modern with Invaders and some cool finish.
I see Rob, I see blindfolds- I'm all in!
Kinky
@@mickylpstudio yea I kinda reread what I said there, good spot
THATS MY #2 PICKUP ALL TIME! Glad you liked it. I love my INVADERS!! Gotta try 1 in a Chapman guitar! Good one Chappers. Try a BLACK WINTER it has alot of killer mids!
You should do this with the single coil pickups
Your #4 was my favorite and go figure it was my favorite pick up that I use next to the JB...the 59/Custom hybrid.
Did you ask him if your favorite pickup is a "super distortion"? Haha a DiMarzio pickup?! 17:42
It’s funny that Rob is thinking let’s create a sweet new high gain pickup, but he prefers the invader that’s been around since the early 90’s.
Yep, I like many other overlooked it… judged a book by its cover!
I think the audio on the guitars is a bit screwed, it sounds really phasey?
Sorry about that, this was all recorded in-house by SD
That invader sounded sooooooo crisp bro!
Yeah as soon as I heard number two I was like nothing is going to beat that one lol
Great video I was Only thinking about invaders this morning 🌄
man i miss Chappers and the Captain. this was great too of course.
Looking forward to this mate, hope you're well!
I agree with you number 2
I had an Invader 30+ years before. It was the least favorite Seymour Duncan pickup I have ever played. Interesting, maybe I should give it a try again.
I like seymour duncan and I don't want to ruffle feathers but dimarzio super distortion is very similar to duncan invader dimarzio has a slight almost clearer tone and duncan has an almost lower grind tone but remarkably similar if you like either I would suggest trying the other
This video has affirmed my taste in tone, I tend go like the classic PAF tone and the brown sound. I instinctively loved the tone of the 59 Custom Hybrid, and what do you know... 59 PAF mixed with the alleged original "EVH" custom order.
my first flying v had an invader.. one day after about 14 years i kept getting insane feedback from the wax being gone.. My invader literally fell apart from me playing for so long overtime^.
first pickups reminded me of the sonorous zero's a lot
I put some distortions in a budget guitar and they are pretty great
Hmm! I use Dimarzio x2n humbuckers. For me I like number 1&2 the best.
Rob, SD does not make a Super Distortion 😅
The 7.8, modified Pegasus borderline sounded like a split humbucker into a single coil. I really wasn't enjoying it at all. Maybe there was a small wiring issue that went unnoticed.
Nice one.. nice guys doing that for you
Must have been fun...just like your DNA test!!!
This just makes me feel old and uncool. Still playing a Jazz/JB combo after all these years...lol
One of the greatest pick up combinations on the planet, my friend
@@RobChappers Thanks for replying, Rob! You've made my day, and I mean that!
Love the sound of the invader but too much bright for me I´m not a Lead Player
I was surprised there wasn't a JB or a distortion moded a bit in it....
Nice looking sound room.
@7:34 smells like a different color.... and its a white one lol.
He is so very clearly looking under the "blindfold"... You can literally watch him do it..
After watching him do this dozens of times in Anderton's videos... And claiming to guess literally un-guessable shit... Every single time ..
Nope.
Without his glasses Rob is practically blind anyway
@@jules153 get a grip... You think he can't see color and basic shapes... 😂
Man... Y'all are gullible as fuck.
Surprised you didnt get to try black winters, they seem like they would be a perfect fit for what you want
1979!
Invader is the best pickup if you want brutal metal. Black winter and Nazgûl right behind that.
I prefer the Duncan Distortion over the Invader, still a great pu though.
@@aek4018 what guitar do you have distortion in? I like the distortion in the neck through a fender amp but it doesn’t sound the way I want in my orange rig.
@@ScottDreyfus SG 🙂
@@aek4018 great platform for Duncan’s
Cool video 😎
isn't a Ceramic Pegasus just a Nazgul?
Not 100%. The Nazgul has a larger, more powerful magnet than what was used here.
@@Preussenpenner hmmm interesting.
That's also the difference between the Distortion and the Black Winter?
I am dearest to #1
Seymour Duncan? More like see no more Duncan!
Underrated comment 😂
The master
…that’s kind of strange. The Invader is generally SD’s worst production pickup; muddy, wooly, mushy. Sounds fine on its own but in MANY shootouts with other pickups it comes in dead last. This one is clearly not stock/standard.
I've used Invaders for years and never had an issue with it being wooly and mushy. I see people saying this and everyone's experience is their own, I get it, but I've never had that problem and I know plenty of other people who use this pickup as well. And I've only ever used standard off-the-shelf Invaders, no custom shop rewinds or anything.
No pickup throw? :)
Too dangerous ha ha
“Tone Bomb”
“Gain Grenade”
@@RobChappers that's a great band name. *Gain Grenade*!
#2❤🎉
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Rob has put on a far bit of weight.
Yet again.. you can literally see him looking down his nose at the guitar\pickup to SEE...
Then acting like he is guessing features..
It takes a special type to do shit like that.
He did it incessantly on Anderson's videos.. pretending he could "guess" all this shit perfectly.
Just watch his head movements. As he clearly looks down at the guitar.. and moves the guitar to see the pickups... 😂 👏
And what would that achieve, given they were all anonymous pickup covers without SD model names emblazoned across the top to give him any information, let alone what magnet type is hidden within.
What a stupid conclusion. What difference would it have made if he actually saw the pickups? They were all new to him. The point was to find out which one SOUNDED the best to him!
@@nitijr it makes no difference.. it just speaks on the mans willingness to be deceitful. Which has been displayed over and over again over the years. Nothing more.
@@PaulCooksStuff he is a narcissist bro. If you haven't gathered that from the years with Anderton's... Catch a clue...
He's willing to pretend to be so superhuman about tone and his hearing... He is claiming things like being able to tell the color of the bobbins on pickups... And hearing the slug sizes... His ego allows him to attempt to fool his audience into thinking he's so badass... 😂
Anderton was very smart to not keep him around..
Just watch him literally look down his nose under the blindfold.. you can literally see him do it...
Blindfolded people don't move their heads like they are visually focused on things... go watch the Andertons blindfold challenges. When you see him LOOK DOWN.. and turn the guitar FACE UP.... Then comment on visual attributes of the guitar\pickup... 🧐 🤔 Really bro.
What would it achieve? His fans believing he is so musically gifted.. he accurately guesses... Only visual things.. blindfolded... 👏 👏
@@PaulCooksStuff you didn't notice that he wasn't commenting on magnet type... Or wind levels... But things like color and slugs... Which are visible attributes.. 😂 😂
Why wasn't he claiming this one sounds like a alnico 3 or ceramic this and that...
Nope.. pickup isn't black... On the only pickup that isn't black... Oh okay.. 👍
Blind fold thing is getting a little used.