Rex_Rocker
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So what are these like? What's their story? How do these compare to regular Black Winters?
Blackened Black Winter?
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weepingminotaur
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None more black.
Rex_Rocker
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They also have dual hex screws rather than screws/slugs.
Don't know if there's anything else like under the hood?
Rex_Rocker
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So, slightly tighter and more attack from the hex poles?
Not sure why these were not styled like the Nazgul in the first place. Maybe they were wanting to show-off the gothic-font logo thinking it was so cool.
The dual-hex option is great to have though. They should offer both the dual-hex and the Nazgul look, and ditch the originals IMO.
The dual-hex option is great to have though. They should offer both the dual-hex and the Nazgul look, and ditch the originals IMO.
Rex_Rocker
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The gothic font is so cool, though, LOL.
beaubrummels
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Those are available from China
weepingminotaur
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Funny, because IMO the "none more black" ultra-metal marketing of the Black Winter pickups has probably scared off non-metal people from trying some of the most unusual and versatile pickups in the Duncan catalog.
Rex_Rocker
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I've honestly never tried to play anything other than metal in mine, but yeah, the neck pickup has a great clean tone, and splits a lot better than your average anemic PAF-type!
The bridge pickup is ridiculously hot, tight, and fiercely upper-mid-focused, though.
The bridge pickup is ridiculously hot, tight, and fiercely upper-mid-focused, though.
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weepingminotaur
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The neck is great for cleans. With the right settings I can do jazz and blues rhythm on it quite nicely. Splitting the neck and adding some kind of OD can result in a lovely edge-of-breakup tone with versatile application.
The bridge can do metal, of course, as well as rock, hard rock, and punk. It produce very nice usable cleans with the tone knob at 5. Splitting the bridge with tone dimed makes an excellent base for blues leads and funk.
This is probably true. While it is great at all things metal. I could do most gigs with a set of these.
Duncan should push these even more by offering those hex-poles in silver and gold too.
I really think Duncan has been slow on the cosmetic-element of the pickup line. They've been able to rely on their well-deserved reputation for tone and quality, but by doing so I think they've given some of their competition a much larger foot in the door. But what do I know really, because Duncan might already be making all the orders they could ever keep up with anyways. (?)
I really think Duncan has been slow on the cosmetic-element of the pickup line. They've been able to rely on their well-deserved reputation for tone and quality, but by doing so I think they've given some of their competition a much larger foot in the door. But what do I know really, because Duncan might already be making all the orders they could ever keep up with anyways. (?)
You can order them with whatever color poles you want.
All I see is black and blackened on the page, no choices on poles or bobbins. I know they do custom and shop-floor customs, but most people just want to go to the website, select their look, pay for it, then receive the pickups in a few days, or even a few weeks.
