Frankenstein Custom Shop Pickup From Seymour Duncan

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Frankenstein Custom Shop Pickup From Seymour Duncan - Anybody tried one?

http://customshop.seymourduncan.com/frankenstein-custom-shop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3t...mlzEAD0m8FyJ8pX1zniIZXdTSvgkc9fL3VkoHfusgu93g

"The Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is designed to provide the punch, power, harmonics, and dynamics that fueled some of the most exciting and memorable guitar riffs of all time. As unique as Eddie, the Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is perfect for rhythm, lead, and everything in between.

There are good tones, there are great tones, and then there are tones that change the world forever. Edward Van Halen’s sound is the latter …and it got there instantaneously, with the first chord of his first record 40 years ago. That sound—with its punch, dimension, aggression, and detail defined an era, launched a tsunami of imitators, and inspired a generation. Now you can get your hands on a pickup that can deliver those VH tones, with all the harmonics, complexity, and power associated with his iconic guitar parts. Massive power chords and soaring single-note lines are all at your fingertips. And because of its incredible clarity and depth, the Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is also perfect for those VH style riffs that combine chords, melody, and technical nuance all at once, maintaining definition and speaking with a loud, clear voice. Another hallmark of Eddie’s style is his brilliant use of dynamics. Whether by altering his attack or rolling down his volume knob, the Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is supremely responsive, making it easy to seamlessly morph from clean to dirty, for a range of tones few humbuckers can match. This is a pickup packed with inspiration.

The articulate highs, aggressive midrange, and punchy lows of the classic VH Sound.
Dynamic enough to clean up even with very high gain.
A pickup so dimensional and wide-range that it gets the seal of approval from one of the all-time greats, Mr. Edward Van Halen.
The Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is proudly made in Santa Barbara, California."
 
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Re: Frankenstein Custom Shop Pickup From Seymour Duncan

Given that the IM1 disappeared from the CS website at the same time this thing game out and the fact that it has similar specs, I'd say that this pickup is the IM1, just Eddie finally agreed to attach his name to it.

Stick with me for a bit of a conspiracy, as all these threads eventually end up with one. Eddie put an A2 into a Custom and that was what was in Frankie when SD made the $25k replica, except it was aged. SD didn't have the rights to use their own wind, so they made the IM1, which was a different wind used to replicate the tone and feel of the $25k pickup, which was just a Custom with a naturally degaussed A2. Nowadays Eddie agreed to let SD use their original wind that they licensed to EVH brands, so their is no need for the IM1 and they just use the original $25k wind.

In short, my conspiracy theory is that the Frankenstein Custom can be approximated by leaving a Custom Custom out in your parts bin for several decades.
 
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Interesting, if you look at the sticker on the product shown in that link, it's designated SH-EVH, which would be the SD '78.

But then again its DCR is advertised as 14.4k, which is mighty close to the 14.1k of a Custom.
 
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That is the pickup that came in the Frankie, not the ‘78.

Speaking of the ‘78, how is that supposed to fit into all this? Or the Custom Custom?

That is my point, all of this is ridiculous. Just buy a used Custom Custom and spend the extra $100 on lessons.
 
Re: Frankenstein Custom Shop Pickup From Seymour Duncan

That IM1 tone sounds like it could be had with infinity pickups through a boss ds-1 into a peavey bandit's clean channel.
Not trying to knock it, sounds good IMO, but I hear nothing special about it at all.
 
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