I have several guitars in my collection with various Seymour-Duncan pickups in them. HUGE respect for using an Epiphone Les Paul for this demo! Usually, companies use Gibsons to demo pickups. Thank you for using a guitar most of us can afford!
@@slash91991 Or they're SMARTER with their money than others and don't get brainwashed by marketing lies or peer pressure. I own a 1967 Gibson. I won't buy any new Gibsons because they're way overpriced. But, if you want to buy them, go right ahead.
@@BrettSmithDaniels That's not the case in America. Nearly all Gibsons people sell here in the USA are close to retail (AND ABOVE!) because idiots will pay them.
I’ve been using Duncans for 30 years, and I worked music retail for 15 years, installed hundreds of Duncans, and I cannot tell one of these clips from the other (so far on three different speakers). Having said that, if I were to blind play test these I’d like to think that there might be a feel and response difference. I’ve gone from a JB to a Custom 5 and a 59 to a WLH and felt differences “behind the wheel.” I do miss when Duncan used to list the resonant peak frequencies, as that was more helpful to me choosing pickups (and selling pickups) than DC resistance.
I could hear differences the whole lotta humbuckers were much warmer and rounder . More nasal and compressed. Not as open or clear as the others. It would be much easier to hear the inferences if we were just given the guitar without a baking track. It would also be easier to hear the inference if the guitar was not drenched in reverb. The clips also need to be shorter. You need to hear all 3 positions heard back to back . First bridge pickup clips then middle than neck. Whole lotta humbickers and pearly gates are very different pickups
@Shaun Ashley these pickups are not identical in spec or material. Just because these clips might sound identical to some doss not mean the pickups are the same . They would not be able to get any with that all a person needs to do is take output readings of these pickups and take gauss readings of the magnet to prove they are not identical . These sets of pickups have been taken apart and examined by people who mod their pickups and the materials and specs are different. The idea that these pickups are all identical and just have different names is silly and there is no evidence to back up this claim
They sound surprisingly similar, but I'd have to give it to the Pearly Gates set as they sound the warmest and fullest. Next the WLH's and the SNS's last.
Got SNS and WLH in different guitars. They are so versatile I love it. They just bring out the best of the guitar which is what they are mean't to do imo. Even the nastiest Thrash metal tone works with a good boost pedal
Have just bought a set of pearly gates, about to order a guitar to put them in. Love the sound of these pickups! I use lil 59s in the bridge and neck positions of my 2015 American standard strat.
Perfect video with no useless talking. Excellent playing, and great pickups. Pearly Gates has always been a favourite, but the Whole Lotta Humbucker set is imo up on the same level. With a bit more air and the bridge pickup got something very special there. Feel like I need 2 more LP's as complements to my Seth Lover equipped one.
@@2ndtimothy162 I had the 61. It was nasty bright. I swapped the magnet in it to an A3, and that didn't help much. It's really all subjective, and dependant on type of music etc... Best for what?
Got to say Whole lotta Humbucker set is my favorite,it got clean crunch to sound,which is excellent to me,Pearly Gates is awesome Humucker,only thing I don't like about it too much treble on bridge pickup,I play one through Marshall half stack,it way too bright, and Saturday night special it ok,it nothing special.
@@luckyg8971 it nice bridge pickup,but it to bright,Guitar repair man told me that you have roll down your tone control on down to 8 on Les paul,it Got mojoe of ZZtop guitar sound,and you will get Pinch Harmonics really easy.
@@luckyg8971 al those classic zz top tones were done with 59 Gibson pafs anyway Peary gates are nice but they are their own thing and different from a vintage Gibson set.
The Saturday night special is kind of a band set . They are good but probably would be better suited if you were using alot of effects and did not want to much color from the pickups.
Installed a set of whole lotta humbuckers in my 58 reissue les paul and they are fantastic . The guitar now sounds alot like the tone page was getting with his early 70s red les deluxe in the late 80s and 90s . That red les paul had the custom shop version of the whole lotta humbuckers and it was basically pages number 1 guitar on the 88 outrider tour and the 93 Japan tour with Coverdale. His tone was always fatter more raw and more aggressive when he played that guitar. His Heaviest guitar tone came from 88 to 93 when he seemed to favor the red les paul over his others these pickups were pushing his amp harder than his other guitars with vintage gibsons . His tone would get brighter and cleaner when he would strap on number 1 or number 2 . These pickups are killer. They do a good zeppelin at earls court 1975 tone as well .. The custombuckers in the R8 were really nice . They were super clear and open but they were very low output and I wanted my R8 to be a hard rock machine and the whole lotta humbuckers Gave me the extra juice and I did gave to sacrifice a little clarity for the extra output but I did not lose much clarity. The whole lotta himbuckers stay surprisingly clear for a hotter pickups . Most pickups lose clarity and openess with WLH levels of output but the WLH strike the perfect balance of output and clarity.
In a les paul? The Duncan Pearly Gate in the neck, yes! A great NECK PUP! But in the bridge the Dimarzio DP100 Super Distortion is the reining king and has always been since its creation in the 70's! it is the sound of 70's and 80's rock! everyone who was somebody back then used it to record their hit rock tunes! Alot of pups sound good in the Bridge of a Les Paul but whenever i hear the Super Distortion in the bridge it always blows the others away, always! Unless your going for strictly blues tones when it comes to a Les Paul with that super-charged hot 70's-80's hard rock attitude the Dimarzio DP100 Rules them all! and nothing gets a crowd jacked-up as fast as a Les Paul w/Dimarzio DP100's plugged into a Marshall.
Yeah,.. Whole Lotta Humbuckers please. Been eying those for a while now. Bout time to pull the trigger. Something about that warm natural crunchy tone. Best played through a tube amp with no pedals. Just like the good ole days or maybe I'm just old, lol.
Nothing can come close to the sound and feel of the 59’s for me. There is something different about the way they sound, open and tight, raunchy and sweet at the same time.
Great video. I really like Seymour Duncan Pickups. I have a set of SH-2 in my Slash LP, a set of SH-1 in my LP Standard, and a set of Hotrails in my Fender Strat. Best pickups available IMO. Thank you Seymour Duncan. Could you do the same video for the SH-1, SH-2 and JB?
Saturday Specials sound best overall. Pearly Gates wins only bridge and neck engaged to my ears. Whole Lotta are a close runner up to the Saturday Night Specials.
Think to buy Seymour duncan humbucker for bridge and single coil pickup for Neck,which One is more better. I'm using Fender squier classic vibe 70s Stratocaster.
It will chug better than most Paf types .. they do it surprisingly well for a pickup that is not geared for that music . They do have a bold low end and low midrange for a PAF type but it's still got a little bit of that spongy PAF bottom end . They definitely do some nice fat palm muted riffs . Again they chug better than PAF pickups normally do . I think the A5 mag they use is slightly degaussed so it won't chug like a custom 5 would.
I like the sound of the Saturday Night Special, sounds 'richer' . I can't tell the difference between the Pearly, and the Whole Lotta* (*I guess that's referring to Page)
what would happen if i added a cover to my pickups? by cover i mean going out of my way and inserting some 3rd party materials on top of it, just for aesthetic reasons... would the quality of the already inserted materials inside the pickups be altered sonically in any way??
It depends on the ferromagnetic properties of the cover material. Even plastic has some capacitance, and most metals have ferromagnetism. The impact is usually less high end, an FFT graph of the difference would show a falloff after like 1-2khz. Uncovered humbuckers will sound "brighter" due to the increased db in the higher frequencies. Note: this is only true of materials that will alter the electromagnetic field. If it is not ferromagnetic, it should have minimal impact on the frequency response.
I'll agree with the previous comment. The other thing is that if you don't pot them in wax, or stop vibrations by some means, they will feed back, and squeal.
I think that depends more on the amp and speaker than the pickup, but a good pickup will sound good in almost any setting. I haven’t played a Blues Jr but generally, the thing I like about a small tube amp is that you can push them and get nice breakup at manageable levels. Depending on the chassis, speaker, and transformer, maybe the bass response isn’t as tight, etc. The great thing about the internet is you can listen to a dozen other guitarists play an amp you want to get or already have, and get a rough idea of what to do (or what not to do). I hate to assume but if you have a Blues Jr, I’d like to think that you’re primarily playing Blues Rock or Classic Rock, and I can tell you from experience that you will most likely notice a difference with an upgraded set of pickups. I once had an Epiphone Sheraton II that played great but sounded muddy plugged in. I put a pair of Duncan 59s in it, and they made that guitar come alive. Having said that, I once had an alder body Tele copy with Artec pickups (Chinese made, I believe) that sounded great. What kind of guitar do you have? Pedals?
With these particular sets yes . All 3 are overwound Paf types. They are designed to push the amp harder to overdrive the amp . These pickups were designed when drive pedals and 2 channel amp were not really a thing. These 3 sets are at their best when they ate driving a cranked amp . If you using a pedal or 2 channel amp then you might want less aggressive pickups like a seth lover or antiquity. Hitting the front end of an amp with pickups like these and then turning the map down defeats the design purpose of these sets . The WLH and Pearlies can sound very bright and fizzy at low volume. You need to turn up a bit to get the full potential out of these 3 sets.
This guy has the same problem as me, for better or worse, I always sound like me no matter what pickup or pedal I use. I guess I just hit it the same and dial up similar sounds
I have hard to tell what is difference in these all pickups, I can only slightly tell whole lotta is another pickup. (Oneplus Nord + AKG702 headphones)
The clips are smoothered with a drive pedal reverb and post production. The drive pedal distortion sounds nothing like classic rock .. these are classic rock pickups. When comparing them we need to hear the amp . Drive pedals color the sound to much and make all pickups sound the same . These are all over wound paf types and they are designed to drive the amp into overdrive. I own 2 sets of the WLH and have played pearly gates and SNS many times and they ate very different sounding pups. Pickup comparison are useless smothered in effects and where were the clean tones
I don’t know man that distortion sound does not sound like classic rock. The pedal is coloring the sound too much. You should have just plugged straight into a Marshall. The playing is amazing but the tone sounds harsh to my ears
This 3 pups are base on PAF's that are basically base on p90s at the time, the original machine to wind the first PAF's were actually p90s winders so it's the same just no hum
the problem that i hear with his demos is that first off, he doesn't play a song from the correct genre era nor have his amp and strings set for that particular song. anyone that is tone deaf can hear a difference between pickups if the strings and amp are set for a particular song of the correct era and genre, Seymour Duncan needs to delete these videos and redo them with correct song, era and genre with proper strings and amp settings. I can hear the tonal difference in string gauge as well as tonal difference in pickups when the amp is set correctly and tunning is also set ( drop tuning etc)
I have several guitars in my collection with various Seymour-Duncan pickups in them. HUGE respect for using an Epiphone Les Paul for this demo! Usually, companies use Gibsons to demo pickups. Thank you for using a guitar most of us can afford!
Everyone can afford a Gibson, people who can’t afford it just don’t love it enough.
@@slash91991 Or they're SMARTER with their money than others and don't get brainwashed by marketing lies or peer pressure. I own a 1967 Gibson. I won't buy any new Gibsons because they're way overpriced. But, if you want to buy them, go right ahead.
@@Axess-sv8nq Whatever you say Mr Smarter
@@Axess-sv8nq always buy used… I own two Gibson’s. Never paid more than $800 Canadian. One is a /very/ nice SG standard
@@BrettSmithDaniels That's not the case in America. Nearly all Gibsons people sell here in the USA are close to retail (AND ABOVE!) because idiots will pay them.
I think we’re getting played. These clips sound identical. Lol
I’ve been using Duncans for 30 years, and I worked music retail for 15 years, installed hundreds of Duncans, and I cannot tell one of these clips from the other (so far on three different speakers). Having said that, if I were to blind play test these I’d like to think that there might be a feel and response difference. I’ve gone from a JB to a Custom 5 and a 59 to a WLH and felt differences “behind the wheel.”
I do miss when Duncan used to list the resonant peak frequencies, as that was more helpful to me choosing pickups (and selling pickups) than DC resistance.
Can't hear even a slight difference. Agree I think we're being played
I could hear differences the whole lotta humbuckers were much warmer and rounder . More nasal and compressed. Not as open or clear as the others. It would be much easier to hear the inferences if we were just given the guitar without a baking track. It would also be easier to hear the inference if the guitar was not drenched in reverb. The clips also need to be shorter. You need to hear all 3 positions heard back to back . First bridge pickup clips then middle than neck. Whole lotta humbickers and pearly gates are very different pickups
@@teacuppermike2568 DC resistance does not really tell you anything about the tone of pickups.
@Shaun Ashley these pickups are not identical in spec or material. Just because these clips might sound identical to some doss not mean the pickups are the same . They would not be able to get any with that all a person needs to do is take output readings of these pickups and take gauss readings of the magnet to prove they are not identical . These sets of pickups have been taken apart and examined by people who mod their pickups and the materials and specs are different. The idea that these pickups are all identical and just have different names is silly and there is no evidence to back up this claim
I agonized between which one of these sets to get for weeks. Judging by this comparison, there was no wrong choice. :) I went with the Pearly Gates.
I just bought a bridge pearly gates! Cant wait to install
I'll bet the only difference is magnet type.
Bridge riff in mix:
Pearly Gates 0:01
Saturday Night Special 1:27
Whole Lotta HB 2:56
Bridge solo in mix:
Pearly Gates 0:30
Saturday Night Special 1:58
Whole Lotta HB 3:27
Neck solo in mix:
PG 0:22
SNS 1:49
WLHB 3:18
Bridge riff w/o mix:
PG 1:06
SNS 2:34
WLHB 4:02
Whole Lotta Humbuckers sound best to me. 👌🏻
00:31 pearly gates bridge
01:59 Saturday night special bridge
03:27 whole lotta humbucker bridge
Neck
PG 0:51
SNS 2:19
WLH 3:47
Bridge
PG 1:07
SNS 2:34
WLH 4:03
Verdict:
They all sound the same :D
I always appreciate when someone provides this.
I like all of them but I think I like the crisp clarity of the pearly gates bridge the most
saturday night specials sound best here imo!
Are you kidding? They sound identical!
@@scottwilliams1577 I agree, but I wonder why that is? They're built differently.
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They sound surprisingly similar, but I'd have to give it to the Pearly Gates set as they sound the warmest and fullest. Next the WLH's and the SNS's last.
Just listened again and I'm going with the Saturday Night Specials
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How you liking the SNS?
I have Pearly Gates Plus at bridge with Texas Special CS at middle and neck
Perfect set for hot-rod Strat!
Y una 59 bridge con las texas special que dices
Pearly gates have quickly become my favorite pickups
Saturday night specials ended my search for another humbucker and guitar. Yeah they are that good. Worth every penny
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Nice job using 3 different magnets in this comparison, A2, A4, & A5.
Got SNS and WLH in different guitars. They are so versatile I love it. They just bring out the best of the guitar which is what they are mean't to do imo. Even the nastiest Thrash metal tone works with a good boost pedal
Have just bought a set of pearly gates, about to order a guitar to put them in. Love the sound of these pickups! I use lil 59s in the bridge and neck positions of my 2015 American standard strat.
Perfect video with no useless talking. Excellent playing, and great pickups. Pearly Gates has always been a favourite, but the Whole Lotta Humbucker set is imo up on the same level. With a bit more air and the bridge pickup got something very special there. Feel like I need 2 more LP's as complements to my Seth Lover equipped one.
BEST P-UPS ARE
GIBSON 61
BURSTBUCKER PROS
LINDY FRALIN HI OUTPUT
TIMOTHY LINNEMAN
@@2ndtimothy162 I had the 61. It was nasty bright. I swapped the magnet in it to an A3, and that didn't help much. It's really all subjective, and dependant on type of music etc... Best for what?
JB 59 's are excellent too...thx for sharing
I'd like to try the Saturday night special bridge with the Pearly gates neck.
These comparison demos are perfect. Love featuring in mix and solo. Keep it up
These all sound really good. Don't think I'll disappoint with any of them. Think I'll try the SNS first.
Got to say Whole lotta Humbucker set is my favorite,it got clean crunch to sound,which is excellent to me,Pearly Gates is awesome Humucker,only thing I don't like about it too much treble on bridge pickup,I play one through Marshall half stack,it way too bright, and Saturday night special it ok,it nothing special.
I wanna love the Pearly Gates bridge as a ZZ Top fan. It's too bright
@@luckyg8971 it nice bridge pickup,but it to bright,Guitar repair man told me that you have roll down your tone control on down to 8 on Les paul,it Got mojoe of ZZtop guitar sound,and you will get Pinch Harmonics really easy.
@@luckyg8971 al those classic zz top tones were done with 59 Gibson pafs anyway Peary gates are nice but they are their own thing and different from a vintage Gibson set.
The Saturday night special is kind of a band set . They are good but probably would be better suited if you were using alot of effects and did not want to much color from the pickups.
Installed a set of whole lotta humbuckers in my 58 reissue les paul and they are fantastic . The guitar now sounds alot like the tone page was getting with his early 70s red les deluxe in the late 80s and 90s . That red les paul had the custom shop version of the whole lotta humbuckers and it was basically pages number 1 guitar on the 88 outrider tour and the 93 Japan tour with Coverdale. His tone was always fatter more raw and more aggressive when he played that guitar. His Heaviest guitar tone came from 88 to 93 when he seemed to favor the red les paul over his others these pickups were pushing his amp harder than his other guitars with vintage gibsons . His tone would get brighter and cleaner when he would strap on number 1 or number 2 . These pickups are killer. They do a good zeppelin at earls court 1975 tone as well .. The custombuckers in the R8 were really nice . They were super clear and open but they were very low output and I wanted my R8 to be a hard rock machine and the whole lotta humbuckers Gave me the extra juice and I did gave to sacrifice a little clarity for the extra output but I did not lose much clarity. The whole lotta himbuckers stay surprisingly clear for a hotter pickups . Most pickups lose clarity and openess with WLH levels of output but the WLH strike the perfect balance of output and clarity.
Phil Anselmo is upping his guitar game
lol for real
Isn't he Seymour Duncan's son?
In a les paul? The Duncan Pearly Gate in the neck, yes! A great NECK PUP! But in the bridge the Dimarzio DP100 Super Distortion is the reining king and has always been since its creation in the 70's! it is the sound of 70's and 80's rock! everyone who was somebody back then used it to record their hit rock tunes! Alot of pups sound good in the Bridge of a Les Paul but whenever i hear the Super Distortion in the bridge it always blows the others away, always! Unless your going for strictly blues tones when it comes to a Les Paul with that super-charged hot 70's-80's hard rock attitude the Dimarzio DP100 Rules them all! and nothing gets a crowd jacked-up as fast as a Les Paul w/Dimarzio DP100's plugged into a Marshall.
The big sound for the rock ❤❤
I dig all the sets. Fantastic classic rock tone. The best.
Yeah,.. Whole Lotta Humbuckers please.
Been eying those for a while now. Bout time to pull the trigger.
Something about that warm natural crunchy tone.
Best played through a tube amp with no pedals. Just like the good ole days or maybe I'm just old, lol.
Nothing can come close to the sound and feel of the 59’s for me. There is something different about the way they sound, open and tight, raunchy and sweet at the same time.
Great video. I really like Seymour Duncan Pickups. I have a set of SH-2 in my Slash LP, a set of SH-1 in my LP Standard, and a set of Hotrails in my Fender Strat. Best pickups available IMO. Thank you Seymour Duncan.
Could you do the same video for the SH-1, SH-2 and JB?
Saturday Specials sound best overall. Pearly Gates wins only bridge and neck engaged to my ears. Whole Lotta are a close runner up to the Saturday Night Specials.
Great demo!
Whole lotta humbucker sounded the fullest
Seymour Duncan's all the way.
Think to buy Seymour duncan humbucker for bridge and single coil pickup for Neck,which One is more better. I'm using Fender squier classic vibe 70s Stratocaster.
Whole Lotta Humbuckers!
I prefer the humbuckers🤐
Whole lotta hum sound best but will it chug?
It will chug better than most Paf types .. they do it surprisingly well for a pickup that is not geared for that music . They do have a bold low end and low midrange for a PAF type but it's still got a little bit of that spongy PAF bottom end . They definitely do some nice fat palm muted riffs . Again they chug better than PAF pickups normally do . I think the A5 mag they use is slightly degaussed so it won't chug like a custom 5 would.
I like the sound of the Saturday Night Special,
sounds 'richer' .
I can't tell the difference between the Pearly, and
the Whole Lotta* (*I guess that's referring to Page)
I just order some, and agree with the rest of your comment. My current 57 classics are lacking something.
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With that amount of effects and processing even a chinese one will sound just as good.
what would happen if i added a cover to my pickups? by cover i mean going out of my way and inserting some 3rd party materials on top of it, just for aesthetic reasons... would the quality of the already inserted materials inside the pickups be altered sonically in any way??
It depends on the ferromagnetic properties of the cover material. Even plastic has some capacitance, and most metals have ferromagnetism. The impact is usually less high end, an FFT graph of the difference would show a falloff after like 1-2khz. Uncovered humbuckers will sound "brighter" due to the increased db in the higher frequencies. Note: this is only true of materials that will alter the electromagnetic field. If it is not ferromagnetic, it should have minimal impact on the frequency response.
I'll agree with the previous comment. The other thing is that if you don't pot them in wax, or stop vibrations by some means, they will feed back, and squeal.
PG = Sweetest bluesy neck, SNS = Sexy smooth bridge, WLH = Most rock n roll grit ...IMO, YMMV.
yes that's what they suppose to be but is not reflected in the sound
Do you need to really crank the amp to get the full effect of the pickup? Mostly play in the basement with a Blues Jr
I think that depends more on the amp and speaker than the pickup, but a good pickup will sound good in almost any setting.
I haven’t played a Blues Jr but generally, the thing I like about a small tube amp is that you can push them and get nice breakup at manageable levels. Depending on the chassis, speaker, and transformer, maybe the bass response isn’t as tight, etc. The great thing about the internet is you can listen to a dozen other guitarists play an amp you want to get or already have, and get a rough idea of what to do (or what not to do).
I hate to assume but if you have a Blues Jr, I’d like to think that you’re primarily playing Blues Rock or Classic Rock, and I can tell you from experience that you will most likely notice a difference with an upgraded set of pickups. I once had an Epiphone Sheraton II that played great but sounded muddy plugged in. I put a pair of Duncan 59s in it, and they made that guitar come alive. Having said that, I once had an alder body Tele copy with Artec pickups (Chinese made, I believe) that sounded great.
What kind of guitar do you have? Pedals?
@@teacuppermike2568 ... Epiphone Les Paul Standard, Fulltime OCD, Blues Driver
With these particular sets yes . All 3 are overwound Paf types. They are designed to push the amp harder to overdrive the amp . These pickups were designed when drive pedals and 2 channel amp were not really a thing. These 3 sets are at their best when they ate driving a cranked amp . If you using a pedal or 2 channel amp then you might want less aggressive pickups like a seth lover or antiquity. Hitting the front end of an amp with pickups like these and then turning the map down defeats the design purpose of these sets . The WLH and Pearlies can sound very bright and fizzy at low volume. You need to turn up a bit to get the full potential out of these 3 sets.
This guy has the same problem as me, for better or worse, I always sound like me no matter what pickup or pedal I use. I guess I just hit it the same and dial up similar sounds
Some days I don't sound like me anymore. Lol.
I have hard to tell what is difference in these all pickups, I can only slightly tell whole lotta is another pickup. (Oneplus Nord + AKG702 headphones)
True, but I am sure they each "feel" different when you're playing the guitar.
All 3 are identical! I mean seriously, wtf?!
I know
The clips are smoothered with a drive pedal reverb and post production. The drive pedal distortion sounds nothing like classic rock .. these are classic rock pickups. When comparing them we need to hear the amp . Drive pedals color the sound to much and make all pickups sound the same . These are all over wound paf types and they are designed to drive the amp into overdrive. I own 2 sets of the WLH and have played pearly gates and SNS many times and they ate very different sounding pups. Pickup comparison are useless smothered in effects and where were the clean tones
What were the pickup heights ???
pearly gate in the bridge and whole lotta humbucker in the neck....
@1:07 pg
@2:34 sn
@4:03 wlh
Damn...Seymour Duncan makes all of the top 3? Seems legit.
This is a Seymour Duncan video.....
@@milkandmeat thanks Captain Obvious. The world is now safe again.
I was looking for their worst 3, and couldn't find a video for that.
I don’t know man that distortion sound does not sound like classic rock. The pedal is coloring the sound too much. You should have just plugged straight into a Marshall. The playing is amazing but the tone sounds harsh to my ears
no JB here??
I prefer P90’s
This 3 pups are base on PAF's that are basically base on p90s at the time, the original machine to wind the first PAF's were actually p90s winders so it's the same just no hum
Suonano identici.
Cut the backing track . I can barely tell a different.
Joe pass guitar with overdrive.
Is this guy blind? Clips sound very similar...hmmm
the problem that i hear with his demos is that first off, he doesn't play a song from the correct genre era nor have his amp and strings set for that particular song. anyone that is tone deaf can hear a difference between pickups if the strings and amp are set for a particular song of the correct era and genre, Seymour Duncan needs to delete these videos and redo them with correct song, era and genre with proper strings and amp settings. I can hear the tonal difference in string gauge as well as tonal difference in pickups when the amp is set correctly and tunning is also set ( drop tuning etc)
they all sound the same