Biu
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I just bought these a coupla weeks ago and finally got to installing them in my Japan Ibanez SCA220 this afternoon, after I bought me a new soldering iron 
I got a matched set, one for bridge and one for neck. Let me tell you, for me, these are the holy grail pickups!
Neck:
This is what is most important to me: sweet, singing neck pickup tones for leads. I'd prior found that vintage single-coils have the tone, but not all the power I needed, and that vintage humbuckers have the muscle, but not the tone I wanted. So here it is, the HUMBUCKER FROM HELL! The fine mix of glassy, rich, and soulful single-coil tone paired with the muscle and solid sustain of a good humbucker. The sound is everything I've ever wanted, and this is honestly the clearest, most defined pickup I've ever played. You can hear the definition of every note in every chord. The tone reminds me a lot of SRV, but crank up to high-gain and look out! It's like a super-defined Yngwie tone, which I adore. Couldn't ask for more, this is one excellent pickup, it's no wonder Paul Gilbert uses it! On cleaner settings, it is very Hendrix-esque, so basically, you're classic Strat sound is compacted in this pickup, but with more output and sustain. I wired it to be tapped as well, and once you do that, the tone is traditional single-coil, with almost no noticeable drop in output. Very cool indeed. For anyone who craves clarity and loves a beefy single-coil sound in a humbucker size, this is THE pickup to have!
Bridge:
I was afraid at first that this pickup would be too bright in the bridge position. WRONG! It, once again, sounds like a single-coil on humbucker steroids in the bridge position, with extreme clarity, a more aggressive kind of Strat-twang, sweet balance of note-roundness all over the fretboard, and just an overall clear tonality. It did the Yngwie/SRV thing as well, depending on how much gain you put it under, and handles EQ very well; it was never ice-picky or thin, always full of body and definition. For clean situations, I found myself playing CCR, finger-picked stuff, surf, and old '50s rock. As with the neck pickup, splitting it yielded a classic Strat tone. Excellent!!!
The Humbucker From Hell makes me want to play more! It also enduces getting me into "the zone" when improvising, which is so so so so important. My new favorite pickups: HUMBUCKER FROM HELL!!! For those who need a buff single-coil sound in the form of a medium output humbucker, this is the ticket! Absolutely divine!
I got a matched set, one for bridge and one for neck. Let me tell you, for me, these are the holy grail pickups!
Neck:
This is what is most important to me: sweet, singing neck pickup tones for leads. I'd prior found that vintage single-coils have the tone, but not all the power I needed, and that vintage humbuckers have the muscle, but not the tone I wanted. So here it is, the HUMBUCKER FROM HELL! The fine mix of glassy, rich, and soulful single-coil tone paired with the muscle and solid sustain of a good humbucker. The sound is everything I've ever wanted, and this is honestly the clearest, most defined pickup I've ever played. You can hear the definition of every note in every chord. The tone reminds me a lot of SRV, but crank up to high-gain and look out! It's like a super-defined Yngwie tone, which I adore. Couldn't ask for more, this is one excellent pickup, it's no wonder Paul Gilbert uses it! On cleaner settings, it is very Hendrix-esque, so basically, you're classic Strat sound is compacted in this pickup, but with more output and sustain. I wired it to be tapped as well, and once you do that, the tone is traditional single-coil, with almost no noticeable drop in output. Very cool indeed. For anyone who craves clarity and loves a beefy single-coil sound in a humbucker size, this is THE pickup to have!
Bridge:
I was afraid at first that this pickup would be too bright in the bridge position. WRONG! It, once again, sounds like a single-coil on humbucker steroids in the bridge position, with extreme clarity, a more aggressive kind of Strat-twang, sweet balance of note-roundness all over the fretboard, and just an overall clear tonality. It did the Yngwie/SRV thing as well, depending on how much gain you put it under, and handles EQ very well; it was never ice-picky or thin, always full of body and definition. For clean situations, I found myself playing CCR, finger-picked stuff, surf, and old '50s rock. As with the neck pickup, splitting it yielded a classic Strat tone. Excellent!!!
The Humbucker From Hell makes me want to play more! It also enduces getting me into "the zone" when improvising, which is so so so so important. My new favorite pickups: HUMBUCKER FROM HELL!!!
For those who need a buff single-coil sound in the form of a medium output humbucker, this is the ticket! Absolutely divine!
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