Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

[VaiHalen]

I´ve bought a SH-6 today, for an:

Alder body
maple-neck
Rosewood-fingerboard Floyd Rose equipped guitar.

I want a great "power chord" sound and a harmonic-rich lead tone that can cut through for rock and metal solos without sounding shrill on the high notes

What do you think about it? I´m right with this.

PD: sorry for my "newbie" question. :smack:

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

The distortion is a great pickup. For what you want I think you've made a good choice. I have really been a fan of the lower output pups for quite a while now, but I just picked up a Hamer with a Duncan Designed Distortion set in it, and the bride absolutely rocks. Mega crunch and sustain. Makes those simple A and E power chords shake the room.

I think you made a great choice.

 

[Travis]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

Ah, the Distortion. My favorite pickup. I love it so much in fact, that I have 3 extra ones lying around waiting to be put into guitars that I haven't bought yet. It is without a doubt the best metal riffing pickup ever. You will not be sorry.

 

[theboatcandream]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

Ah, the Distortion. My favorite pickup. I love it so much in fact, that I have 3 extra ones lying around waiting to be put into guitars that I haven't bought yet. It is without a doubt the best metal riffing pickup ever. You will not be sorry.

What makes it better than a lowermidscooped dimarzio superdistortion?

 

[Travis]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

Honestly, I have not tried the Super Distortion. The only Dimarzios I have tried are the Evolution, Breed, (Vai's signature guitars) Paf Pro, Fred, (Satriani's guitars) and the custom Dimarzios in the John Petrucci and EVH signature guitars. I have just always preferred Duncans over Dimarzios and the Distortion just seems to fit right with my playing style. I prefer it over the JB and Custom in the bridge and I'm awaiting a guitar to try the neck model.

 

[ranalli]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

What makes it better than a lowermidscooped dimarzio superdistortion?

I didn't find that pickup to be lower mid scooped at all. Actually scooped is the last word I'd use to describe that pickup...

 

[RG 2570]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

What makes it better than a lowermidscooped dimarzio superdistortion?

i recently owned both a older 80's DD and a new dimarzio SD.
the Duncan was much more musical to my ears and had more balls

 

[theboatcandream]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

I didn't find that pickup to be lower mid scooped at all. Actually scooped is the last word I'd use to describe that pickup...

No no no. I mean, a dimarzio superdistortion accompanied by a 10 band equalizer with an 8 decible scoop at 320hz to eliminate those nasty midrange harmonics.

 

[Stevo]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

I like the Duncan Distortion a lot. It has a nice compressed sound for the harder rock stuff, and it's actually kind of nice and jangly when clean.
Here are a couple of tunes that I did with the DD.

DD, Les Paul, Marshall JMP

DD/59n, Les Paul, Marshall JMP

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

Stevo....that Distortion sounds fantastic. Got one laying around you want to get rid of?

 

[theboatcandream]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

I like the Duncan Distortion a lot. It has a nice compressed sound for the harder rock stuff, and it's actually kind of nice and jangly when clean.
Here are a couple of tunes that I did with the DD.

DD, Les Paul, Marshall JMP

DD/59n, Les Paul, Marshall JMP

Sweet sounds! People have been telling me their only good for full out metal, but that doesn't sound like it's the case at all!

 

[guitarshredder]

Re: Bought a Duncan Distortion today!

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