Seymour Duncan Bug-Sey 'Bucker

Passive humbucking design. Basically the Bug Sey Bucker is a JB with an Alnico II Magnet. Seymour himself uses the JB in this configuration.

Measures in at 16.6K so it is a hot pickup, but the A2 magnet allows it to act like a low output pickup.

I installed this into the bridge of a 2006 Gibson Les Paul Standard where it replaced the terrible sounding Burstbucker Pro.

The neck pickup is a homemade alnico 5 pickup that I wound myself (I have a winder though I rarely get the time to make pickups) to sound like a Duncan Alnico II Pro with more definition in the low and high end.

I know that Seymour uses the Bug Sey bucker as did Warren DeMartini before he got his own signature pickup with Duncan.

This is a medium-high pickup, very clear, very defined but smooth. There is a midrange focus like you have in a JB but the midrange spike is absent and the mids are more even. High end is smooth and the low end is slightly spongy but still much tighter than you get with a Pearly Gates, Alnico II Pro or Seth Lover (all of which are Alnico II powered pickups) which are all great neck pickups but don't do it for me in the bridge.

I have quite a few amps, a Matchless Lightning, a Koch Multitone 2X12 combo a Harry Joyce Custom 30 combo and a Mesa Nomad 45 head. I have a couple THD 2X12 cabs and a Mesa Rectifier cab that I quite like as well.

I am a rock player, dabble in country and some metal but my style is pretty much straight up rock. This pickup is perfect for my needs

I would absolutely get one of these again....but the new DeMartini pickup is one that sounds like it is right up my alley too.

I love how touch sensitive this pickup is. I like how well it responds to the volume control and (unlike regular JB pickups) I like how it sounds clean.

I REALLY think that this is how the JB should sound.

Great pickup