Seymour Duncan Black Winter Neck

It's a Seymour Duncan pickup. It cannot be bad.

And it isn't. I bought it because I needed something versatile with an aggressive edge, and that's precisely what I got. It goes from smooth and melodic to angry snarling. In short it's fantastic.

It's warm and rich, has amazing saturated distortion with loads and loads of sustain, and it responds really well to picking dynamics.

It was super easy to install, the manual it came with was very clear and wasn't difficult to follow, and I'm not that experienced.

All in all, it's very inspiring and I'm extremely happy with it.

I got the set to put in a Jackson King V i've had for a while and I'm not disapointed.

The neck version is clean, responsive and super articulate.

The both versions have a lot of extreme bass and treble frequencies so they drive amps to near breaking point but the neck version has a lot more Mids than the bridge version which make it a little screamy for a neck pick up however still a nice sounding pup.

As with It is incredibly hot though so obviously not suited well for blues, classic rock, Jazz etc although they do clean up quite well they have a bit too much gain to realy be utilized for clean playing.

While split you get a hot Strat type feel with a lot clean fluid feeling so great for legato and sustained notes however more creamy than the bridge version with a bit more fluidity.

These pick ups are excellent and what more can be expected from Mr Duncan and his team?

They both versions are super hot so i'd be wary about trying them if you want something subtle but the trade off is infinete sustain(as close as you'll get) articultation and a cutting tone.

Deffinetely worth getting if you play metal or shred and even Jazz at a push but still they are very very hot.