Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

[lightningblues427]

Had to post my first impressions of my Antiquity humbucker set.

These bad boys were bought for blues and classic rock tones and deliver in spades. Bridge 8.42K, Neck 7.52K

I am head over heels with the stinging biting blues tones Im getting out of these pickups.

Mahogany Tele body, quartersawn maple neck, ebony fretboard, wired up 50's style 2 volume 2 tone 3way, 22uf orange drop cap on the bridge and 15uf orange drop on the neck.

Replaced a $400 Bare Knuckle ABRAXAS set, which I can say will never go into my guitar again, these Antiquities are there to stay, I finally found my perfect blues humbucker set.

Clean bright and clear yet soft bell like clean tones coming out of the bridge, put on a little dirt and its stinging, singing blues all the way, no mistake that these are vintage style and that's a compliment all the way.

Neck has just enough dark to give it a haunting howling tone when throwing down some bluesy lead lines but cleans up clear and detailed enough to catch all the low end grunt without getting muddy and mushed.

I couldn't be happier, thank you Seymour I am very grateful.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

Welcome to the forum.

A lot of people like Antiquity pickups. I have two in my "bestest" Fender AVRI '62 Stratocaster. The guitar has something about it that my others do not.

Post the BK pickups in the forum Trading Post room. You might get a decent offer.

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

I'm glad to hear that they worked out in your hog tele.

I have a very similar hog tele, H/H with a maple -ebony neck. And I use the guitar for the same things you do. My problem is is that my bridge is a wide hard tail strat bridge so I need wide pole spacing in both the neck and the bridge positions. I had some boutique PAFs in it, and it sounded very good overall, but the e strings were way off the poles. I mean way off the poles to the point that I was losing tone. I'm not sure what to do-get 59 trembuckers and start swaping mags or what? I wish I could get Seths or Ants in trembucker spacing.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

i love my ants. solid old school humbucker tones. i have seths, wlh, pearlys, 59s and the ants have just a little something extra that keeps me coming back to them

 

[blueman335]

Re: Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

I am head over heels with the stinging biting blues tones Im getting out of these pickups.

Mahogany Tele body, quartersawn maple neck, ebony fretboard...Clean bright and clear yet soft bell like clean tones coming out of the bridge, put on a little dirt and its stinging, singing blues all the way, no mistake that these are vintage style and that's a compliment all the way.

Neck has just enough dark to give it a haunting howling tone when throwing down some bluesy lead lines but cleans up clear and detailed enough to catch all the low end grunt without getting muddy and mushed.

I think that's where Ant's would shine. In an LP, which are usually pretty warm guitars, my Ants didn't have much high-end, neck or bridge.

 

[lightningblues427]

Re: Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

I think the combination of the 50's wiring and 15 uf cap on the neck, as well as, the quartersawn maple neck and ebony fretboard, are the main reasons the Antiquities are so bright and stinging in my guitar, My pair also came with a slightly lower output: Bridge 8.42K, Neck 7.52K, this was unexpected but happily what I was hoping for, as I knew I wanted brighter cleaner tones for blues leads in particular, a lower output usually means a bit brighter tone in humbuckers, not to mention they don't wax pot them, so I am very pleased.

Im still honing in on the sweet spot, getting the guitar and pickups set up for each other, so I am pretty confident the honey moon will turn into a long lasting relationship, I can really feel the guitar singing against my body with these humbuckers, not to mention they squeal harmonically with the slightest effort, and some of my favorite positions on the neck have that sweet spot tone and feel coming through, you guys know what I mean.

Can't say I've gotten that with very many pickups, so you can imagine the joy Im feeling, and all in a custom Tele I built myself, I can feel a good year coming on.

 

[Jeffblue]

Re: Just installed Seymour Duncan Antiquity humbucker set...Sweet!

I love Antiquities of many types, humbuckers, P90s, strat and tele. I use them all, mix and match them into the same guitar.