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Seymour Duncan Black Winter Humbucker Pickup - Set

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Features

  • High Output Humbucking Pickups Designed f Hardce Playing Styles - Black

Description

The Black Winter is as dark and vicious as the winters in Scandinavia with excessive grime and aggression; the right balance of midst, treble and bass to instantly take you from annihilating riffs to solos with cutting articulation. The Black Winter fills the needs of extreme metal guitarists with a tone that provides crushing distortion, punishing midst and lots of aggressive saturation and string sensitivity. Neck and bridge pickups are calibrated for a balanced assault. Hand built in Santa Barbara, CA, we offer the Black Winter in standard 6-string size, as well as 7 & 8 string passive mount with naked coils (or in Active 'Soap bar' Mount with exposed pole pieces). Comes with 4-conductor lead wire for multiple wiring options, and is vacuum wax potted for squeal free operation.

Brand: Seymour Duncan


Color: Black


Item dimensions L x W x H: 6.2 x 4.45 x 1.45 inches


Back Material Type: Basswood


Finish Type: Powder Coated


Instrument: Guitar


Item Weight: 13.28 ounces


Operation Mode: Manual


Number of Strings: 6


Manufacturer: Seymour Duncan


Item Weight: 13.3 ounces


Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 4.45 x 1.45 inches


Item model number: Black Winter Set 6 string


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: July 10, 2013


Back Material: Basswood


Color Name: Black


Number of Strings: 6


Material Type: Synthetic


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  • Seymour Duncan Black Winter Humbucker Pickup - Set
Seymour Duncan Black Winter Humbucker Pickup - Set These pickups turned a little played SG into the go to guitar. For heavy tuned down riffs these are magic. Not only can they get super heavy and distorted they can also be crystal clear. I have a ton of passive and active pickups, these are currently one of my favorites. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024 by Supersport-68

  • Raw and rough, absurdly high output
As you'd expect, when the packaging looks menacing and these are called "Black Winters" you know you're in for a treat. I had these put in an Ibanez RG that has a HSH pick-up config, for the nerds out there I put a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder in the middle, although I may change it for a hot rail, I digress. With these being very high output, you can get some pretty gnarly tones at mid gain, and some brutal sounds with even higher gain. Very cold sounding bridge pickup but a thick and sludgey neck pickup, can very easily cut well through a mix. Pick-ups specifically for black metal, what would you expect? Very good, just hard to control the tone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022 by thomas vaught

  • Amazing pickup
Clear rich warm fat and powerful as hell. And you know what else? Coil split it. It has an amazing spanky single coil sound as well. Put them in an all-mahogany Gibson V with CTS push-pull pots for the coil split and it is an amazing and versatile machine. Clean with the tone rolled back a little is very sweet. I tend to overuse the bridge pickup but with these every combination sounds good, and some very different sounds are possible. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021 by redx

  • They do make a difference
Let me preface by saying I was replacing a cheap set of pickups. The difference with these wasn't night and day, but there was a noticeable increase in frequency response. With the old pickups I had my tone knob all the way up, with these I need to dial it back a little. These pickups pick up more of the sound than the old ones did. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2022 by Cody wexler

  • It sounds so good though. I play death metal/core
Theses are my absolute favorites. I have them in a basswood body Jackson with rosewood fret board. Not exactly an ideal guitar for me. It sounds so good though. I play death metal/core. Also have a Schechter Blackjack in drop A with Nazgul/Sentient. My Jackson in Drop D sounds way more brutal. I absolutely love it. The odd thing is that the cleans sound just as good. I play a lot more cleans now with these in it. If you play heavy music these will do it. If you play non heavy music these will do it. Not sure how they did it. I hope they make a White Winter set in the future so I don't have the exact same looking pickup in every guitar. This is the first time I ever tuned a guitar back up from a lower tuning. They are that good. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2017 by XieB

  • You may as well buy enough to put these in all your guitars.
These are some of my favorite pickups of all time. I have a variety of guitars, each with non-stock pickups. Everything from custom MJ-wound '59's to multiple Bare Knuckle offerings, to Lundgrens. The Black Winters, while designed specifically for the Black Metal crowd, do everything really well. I can go from brutal doomy chugs to beautiful post-rock ambience, to driven bluesy warmth, and to pristine cleans with an OD pedal and my volume knob. I've never put the same set of pups in multiple guitars until these and I had to force myself to not put them in a third guitar purely for variety's sake. My guitarist played my 7-string with BW's in it and immediately ordered himself a pair. In other words, yes, you want these. Yes, you will be happy with your choice. These are possibly the best pickups out there right now. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016 by Matt Johnson

  • Going dark?
This was used on a kit project. I must say, these pups are very dark with distortion. Probably could have used a lower rated cap on the tone pot. But, on clean it has a very warm acoustic tone.
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2023 by Jason Wheeler Jason Wheeler

  • NOT JUST A METAL PICKUP
I threw these in a Gibson SG and they sound great. I like to shred a bit and play heavy but I also like to play Rock N Roll. These pickups covered both arenas. They can even do some Blues. They are hot, thick, and have plenty of clarity. But what was so surprising was how rich they are. They actually have monstrous tone. Yet they retain all the clarity and bite you need for metal. When you roll these off they clean up reasonably well too. New they could do the heavy stuff but was shocked at everything else they could do. Oh, 1 last thing, amazing lead tones in the neck and bridge. Good stuff. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019 by CWD

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