Seymour Duncan SH-1B '59 Model Humbucker Pickup

Brought my SG to life!

brilliant service great bit of kit

I got a 61 Re-issue SG last year. Really liked the neck "burstbucker" from day 1, but struggled to ever get any liftoff out of the bridge p/u. Eventually read about the underwound low output burstbuckers that were made, and I cursed the typical Gibson sort of silliness - allowing such a crappy lead pickup in a $2k guitar! I bought a bridge position Duncan '59 and put it myself and it has saved my guitar investment. It's a perfect match for the existing neck p/u. It has the high end clarity and the punch my guitar was always lacking at the bridge. I had hesitated because I got caught up in some of the descriptions that called this a low output p/u. Don't worry. It's not a hot-rod screamer, but the tone is fabulous and the output is completely normal and has plenty of the liftoff I was looking for. It sounds far better than that stupid burstbucker. I played two gigs the weekend I made the switch, and very successfully evoked my best Allman Bros. and Jerry tones all weekend long, got lots of compliments on my sound and I could not be happier. Best $100 spent in quite awhile.

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Der Klassische Sound. Habe ihn am Hals in Kombi mit einem Dimebucker an der Brücke (wie Dimebag es hatte). Perfekte Kombi auf einer Explorer. Drückt gut und hat einiges mehr an Wärme im Mix der beiden.

So muss ein vintage bridge humbucker klingen. Fett, rotzig, voll auf die 12. Mein absoluter Lieblings-Doppelspuler.

If you are looking to upgrade a guitars pickups and want that 60's sound like the old SG had, this is a great way to go. I had a china made SG which the body and neck were sweet. The pickups sucked big time. I decided to completely strip it down and replace all the electronics and pickups. I bought a complete pot set from SM with new switch craft switchs and output jack as well as new CTS 500 pots and orange drop caps. rewired this up to a set SD SH-1b and SH-1n humbuckers. New face plates and this guitar is killer. I reset the action and intonation and changed to Grover tuners and have the strings about a credit cards thickness from the frets. Plays great and sounds like an old SG from 60's. Whats cool is I don't really care if the body gets a ding or 2 as this a players guitar. It may say Epiphone on the neck but it is an SG at heart. Love these pickups.