What was your first Seymour Duncan pickup or experience?

[Edgecrusher]

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My first SD pup was a Screamin Demon in my very heavy LP Classic. At the time I was looking for a bridge pup that would "scream" with bright piercing highs.

Logical that I would buy a pup called "Screamin Demon", right?

I made this same mistake. I remember when the ads came out with Lynch and the Skull and Snakes ESP. I remembering having the music store order it and it was like 25 bucks more expensive than other humbuckers. I got it in the guitar and just went..... Wasnt so much that it was a bad sounding pickup just not at all a Screamin Demon.

[Justin Read]

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+1

Around 10 years ago I decided to up grade my stock pickups in my Peavey EVH special. After lots of reading and time spent contemplating, I bought the Demon for the bridge thinking it was going to be as big as George's hair in the 80s. Sadly I was mistaken.

I now wish I didn't sell it. I am really intrigued how it will sound as a neck pickup.

[Lake Placid Blues]

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It was a Custom in a Charvel back in the 80s. Maybe it was JB, but it was either that or the Custom. I seem to recall it was the Custom though.

What really converted me though was when a band mate installed surfers into his American Standard strat. They totally transformed that guitar. Another guy I jammed with actually replaced the original pickups in his 63 strat with surfers.

[ArtieToo]

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Oddly enough, . . . I remember. I had a somewhat unique USA Peavey Predator. Not like the ones you see today. I asked the forum what they recommended. They said . . . C5 bridge, 59 Neck. It was a killer combo. I was hooked. The pups are long gone, but I still have that axe. I need to get another pair. (Of "them", I mean.)

[Drunken Bowling]

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'59 bridge humbucker for my Epiphone Les Paul as a Christmas gift in 2000. The guy at the store suggested emg's but I hate emg's. Then he suggested a Full Shred, which I was going to go with. I was looking for a more traditional 70's crunchy hard rock sound for AC/DC and Aerosmith. The 59 sounded okay through my Marshall VS15, but amazing (for the time) through my Spider 210, which I got about a year or so later.

[Ashurbanipal]

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I absolutely regret selling my (newly bought) Steinberger GR4 USA model in 1999. It wasn't a transtrem version buy it was seriously such a beautiful guitar. It had a graphite headless neck, maple body and came stock with a Seymour Duncan JB and 2 SD hot rails. That was a serious beast of a guitar, so smooth and balanced. That was my initiation into the world of Seymour.



I owned it for about 5 years and traded it in for a Fender twin amp that I absolutely hated and sold after 6 months.

I constantly look to buy a transtrem Steingerger but they are either over priced or in atrocious condition :-(

Tch tch, young man; well, you live and learn. JB probably perfect for a maple/graphite guitar.

[Justin Read]

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Sad but true. We do live and learn.

Reminds me of an ex I lost back to her home country. Sometimes the good ones get away.

[ItsaBass]

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OEM SSL-1 middle pickup in a Kramer.

[Rodney Gene]

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About 25 or so years ago in my P-Bass.

Active P-Bass Pickups with switches (not my pic): (I lived in Santa Barbara so these were easy to get and used by a lot of locals) Great sound. Cheers!

[beaubrummels]

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Antiquities Texas Hot set for Stratocaster, though I only used the bridge pickup out of the set to replace one in a 1966 Stratocaster. It matched perfectly, and I've sworn by Seymour Duncan pickups ever since.

[BrianS.]

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Full Shred in my Gibson V. Followed shortly by a PGn in same guitar. Such a huge improvement over the stock pups...and the PGn was a huge improvement over the classic 57 I first put in there! Back in '93 or thereabouts.

[75lespaul]

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About twenty eight years ago, I bought a black Kramer Baretta that had the JB pickup. The guitar just smoked.

[BloodRose]

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Ah yes, I remember quite well.... I had an 80s kramer stryker. I liked the guitar but it was kind of bland. Like I was a good judge of tone cuz I knew 3 chords and played it thru a PV Special 130. But anyhow.. I didnt know much about replacement pickups so when I moved to FLA, they had a cool music store here and I was shopping for a new guitar and they told me I should try a pup swap. I bought a JB upon the recommendation. I ended up falling madly in love with a Charvel DR3 (I think it was. Candy apple red, humbucker and slant single coil and was the first one in town with the upside down headstock!!) Anyhow, bought that and then had the JB put into my Striker with a coil tap and OMG!! Was night and day improvement! Blew my mind. Then, I almost felt guilty for buying that other guitar... Almost... haha In the end, wife said I had to get rid of one and the Kramer went since I loved the Charvel more, but Ill never forget how much the Duncan improved the tone.. So..Now Ive bought oodles of Duncans and swap pups on nearly every guitar Ive bought since..

We always remember our first, dont we??

[MkIII Renegade]

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My first was a JB in my '85 Gibson V. It was good, but I was very interested in the 500T when it first came out and it ended up being better suited for what I wanted from that guitar.

Next Duncan was the Distortion paired with a '59 Neck, an instant classic in my Carvin. Still have that and added a DD to one my Charvel 475s also.

[Joe61]

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My first was a hot P bass pup in a cheap Kramer bass. Man, that had a fat tone!