Seymour Duncan SH-5 Custom Humbucker Guitar Pickup

hey - after sum research i bought this pickup for my epiphone les paul.original epiphone stock pickup replacement. better mids and treble. harmonics kick ass.i'm sure you'll love this as i do. also great 4 clean sounds - again, treble/upper harmonics r beautiful.the sound has a unique character/texture which the stock pickup didn't.i play everything from guns&roses,bowie,ratm to queen to panteraok cool, buy this if you like raw/heavy thick rock sounds. this is the best upgrade you can do to a les paulkurt

Compare to distortion sounds scooped. So maybe it is not worth to buy it

perfect, but not white

The SH-5 ceramic powered Custom is one of the finest pickups I've ever played. While not as well-known as the JB or Duncan Distortion, it punches up there with the best of them. In output, it's a little lower than a JB or Distortion, but you can't tell when you crank it through a high gain amp. It just screams. The low end is actually tighter than a Distortion or JB. This is a pickup that can handle anything from earthy, roots rock and classic rock to full on metal. I've used it in a wide array of instruments from strats to Les Pauls, PRS and Yamaha Revstars. It always delivers the goods. It has a tight, but not thuddy low end, great sustain, a cutting midrange crunch with a lot of bite, screaming highs, and popping, edgy harmonics. Whether you want a Michael Schenker or Slash tone, or a George Lynch style hair metal tone, or even just play jazz fusion with a medium gain setting, this is the pickup you've been looking for.

Pretty good fitted to my les paul.custom (epiphone)Big improvement compared to the stock probucker.

La compre para sustituir la Pearly Gates que tenía de serie en el puente, junto con una 59 en el mástil. La PG no me acababa de convencer con un sonido muy "TEXAS", no me acaba de gustar ya que no busco ese tipo de sonido, y no me convencía la combinación con la 59 del mástil. Esta Duncan Custom es una pastilla muy polivalente, con mucha definición y una salida bastante buena, cruje pronto si la aprietas, pero es justo lo que andaba buscando más dinámica y respuesta. Te vale desde Rock clásico hasta Metal con muy buena definición. Y combina mucho mejor con la 59, la guitarra está ahora más equilibrada en sonidos.

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I own a 1993 PRS CE 24. After getting back into playing, I kept putting it down for my $500 Epiphone Les Paul because it sounded better. How could this be? After watching lots of YouTube vids of people creating awesome tones I got a bit jealous, tried different strings, adjusted the entire guitar from string height to the tress rod, and I even got some electronic cleaning fluid to clean up the pots. Noting improved the overall tone. The thing is, doing all of this helped the PRS play awesome in terms of actual functionality and feel, so I decided to search for new pickups . After watching and listening to a lot of vids it became clear that Seymour Duncan makes the best sounding pickups.I wanted a warmer tone to the bridge but wanted to maintain versatility in terms of rock to metal. I listened to lots of different pickups and decided on these. Not only do they sound awesome, they have dramatically improved the tone of my PRS in a way I did not expect. Get this....they PICKUP the guitar's sound! Not just "a sound" but a range of sounds that my stock pickups never did. Its not just that the guitar tone and sound is more responsive, that alone would have been worth the cost, but my effects pedal sounds so clear and crisp and I am hearing tones and dynamics that I did not know my pedal could produce! Its like I had and 8 Track and now I have HD audio (BTW I have the Line 6 Firehawk FX). This is equally true for distortion and overdrive. I can hear the reverb, flange, chorus, etc, in ways that my old pickup simply cut out. My guitar now sounds like it should. Now I just need to learn to play better!P.S. Initially I just replaced the wires as they were stock. But the 1993 pickups do not have a green wire so I ignored it. Doing so just let the bridge and neck positions work (and didn't sound great). After more research I simply grounded the greens and it was fixed!