Shadow AZ48

Deze pickup heb ik op mijn Ibanez GB10EM gemonteerd ter vervanging van de originele pickup. Het onderscheid in de lage tonen is veel beter dan bij de originele pickup. Ik hoopte dat de hoge snaren wat meer "mellow" zouden klinken, maar dat is niet het geval....heeft wellicht ook te maken met het instrument. De montage is eenvoudig, als je kunt solderen.
Toch zoek ik verder naar een meer "mellow" klank in mijn gitaar. Dat betekent zoeken naar een andere pickup (Jazzy Joe of Bartolini?). Al met al wel een mooie pickup.

I have an Ibanez AFC 151 which is an all laminate maple and laminate spruce top guitar with a floating pickup. The guitar is great but I didn’t catch the point about a floating pickup on a laminated guitar.
Anyway I ordered this pickup don’t knowing what to expect. On the Shadow site it says that the pickup is a warm sounding humbucker pickup. Exactly what I was looking for, but on the other side, on the forums they claimed the pickup is clear and pretty bright. Well, now I can say that the people from the forum are right.
The pickup is bright, clear, quite nice sounding, but a bit muddy on the heavier strings(the pickup resistance is 15,78kOhm).But it’s not for you, if you have a PAF sound in your head(Peter Bernstein for example). And the other thing I found is that is a pretty quite pickup. On my setup the pickup needs twice as much power to be equaly laud as my guitar with a normal PAF style pickup(Dimarzio 36ann.).

Conclusin: If you are looking for a clear, almost acoustic floating pickup, go for it! The build quality is pretty nice, and for the price it’s great.
But, if you’re looking for a warm, full humbucker PAF sound, this one is not for you.