Seymour Duncan Little '59

Pickup features: HB in S/C Size. Nice when you dont want to alter your 52 Tele too much
Impedence or other specs: See Semour Duncan Website

Model of guitar or bass: 52 Tele & Strat Neck positions
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: Joe Barden "Gatton" Neck
Other pickups on guitar: TB4 full HB Middle (with dpdt), Joe Barden Gatton Bridge
Artists using this pickup: Moi
You musical style(s): These axes used for: Classic Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, 70-80s Metal
Reason for pickup change: Needed fatter and creamier woman tone on the neck of my 52teles (L59 Neck, TB4 middle, Gatton Barden Bridge) passive 3-way switching, and Custom Strats (EC bodies with SRV Pau Ferro necks, Van Zandt Blues s/c Middle & Bridge)Passive 5 way

Perceived output level: As loud as the TB4 center. Lowered it to below base of neck just above the pickguard
Tone: FFCWT: Fat fucking creamy woman tone, articulate, and very hendrixy
Sonic evaluation: Rig with 5 loops: loop 1: JMP-1, Loop 2: VTwin Sat Tube, Loop 3: Carvin X100B Modded Class A 30 watts Plexi 50 Handwired Circuit, Loop 4: Fender Tonemaster, Loop 5: 5150. Routings, racks, poweramps, etc too complex to list here other than (4ea Palmer PGA-04s, 2x GSP 2101A, 1x MPXG2, 1x PCM80, 4x BBE 462s, 2ea MOSVALVE 500 MV-942, 2EA MOSAVALVE 160 MV-962) 2x GBZ George Lynch 2x12s, 2 4x10s Celestion Blue 10s Tops, P10Qs bottom; and 2 1x15 custom cabs (with Peavey BW Keyboard speakers)

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Rock, Blues Rock, Blues, Classic Rock, 70-80s Metal, Hard Rock, New CUNTry, Popular

Comments: It wont get stolen, lost, or becaase I have security road crew who pay for what gets stolen or damaged. Its in their fucking contract. Totally satisfied. These also work very well as 59Neck/TB4 Bridge with dpdt on both on a 3-way p/u switch as I have on two custom shop G&L dual HBs. This combination covers all the essential territory extremely well. 59 Neck, full or Little are fantastic for the neck. I have 59 Bridges (full size) in both my 3p/u Les Pauls with TB4 Middle (dpdt) and 59 Full size neck. Semour nailed the vintage PAF in the bridge 59, and all modern tones in the TB4! This combination rocks for moi beeba! Remeber, its not the size of your dick that counts, ITS THE SIZE AND YOUR ENDURANCE LOL!

Pickup features: single coil sized humbucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Mutt 60's Strat
Position: middle
Pickup being replaced: Noisy Fender single coil.
Other pickups on guitar: Seymore Duncan HS-3's
Artists using this pickup: Me
You musical style(s): Industrial/Metal/Blues
Reason for pickup change: I wanted a punchier middle pickup without any hum

Perceived output level: Higher output than my HS-3's
Tone: A little bassy, but the poles are adjustable so you might be able to dial that out
Sonic evaluation: Fender Strat (60's body with a mystery neck) played through a '61 Fender Tweed Deluxe.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable:

Comments: This pickup does what I want it to do. The volume difference between this and my HS-3's may be problematic. If so, maybe i'll just buy a couple more of these.

Pickup features: Single coiled humbucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Home made Stratocaster
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Van Zandt Rock Model
Other pickups on guitar: Van Zandt blues on neck- Van Zandt Vintage in middle
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): From Jazz standards to 70's Rock
Reason for pickup change: Needed a humbucker lead tone but I didn't want to drill into my guitar's body

Perceived output level: it's a little more powerful than the Van Zandt single coils but not too much
Tone: balanced
Sonic evaluation: Home made strat with rosewood fingerboard, Fender super Champ, Classic 30, GX700 effects Processor

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Good for Classic rock Tones and hard blues leads, don't work for metal stuff

Comments: Originally I wanted a Little JB, but the guy at the music store who knew me well, told me that the JB was going to be too hot for me and adviced me to buy a Little 59 and to come back later to get a Little JB if I was not happy with the 59. I put the 59 on my axe, I tried it and I decided to keep it...
It's a good pickup to mix with hot single coils on a strat, you don't have a big volume difference when you're switching from neck pickup to bridge pickup for instance.But don't expect a full hot humbucker tone with it. If so, get a JB !!!

Pickup features: Single coil sized passive humbucker.
Impedence or other specs: unknown.

Model of guitar or bass: Squier Stagemaster (Fat Strat with a Floyd Rose)
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Stock Squier (rubbish)
Other pickups on guitar: Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge, Hot Rails in the neck
Artists using this pickup: Jim from Carter USM!
You musical style(s): Classic rock, metal, driven blues
Reason for pickup change: The stock ones didn't do the guitar any justice...

Perceived output level: Medium- higher than the Squier, but significantly lower than the Custom or a normal '59
Tone: Balanced, if a little middy. It's paf-modelled, you know the deal.
Sonic evaluation: This lived in my hot-rodded Squier Stagemaster for about 2 months. I use this guitar with a Marshall MG100 and AVT4x12 half stack, Boss OD2 and DS2, CS3, Zoom Hyperfuzz and Danelectro Danowah.
Basically, I had a proper '59 in my Warlock, and loved the tone- growly without being too muddy, and huge variation available on the tone control, so when I finally got round to replacing the mid position pikcup, I thought I'd go for the Lil 59. Big mistake. There was no comparison at all with the full size 59, the only usable tone I could get was a passable dirty blues tone, and when used in conjunction with the other pickups it was drowned out. It's also very muddy when compared to the real thing. After I removed the pickup, I moved the neck Hot Rails down into the mid and fitted the full size 59 into the neck position (so it's now HSH not HSS) and it's not the guitar- the '59 is as good as it had been in the Warlock.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play a range of rock and blues styles, but mainly dirty. It was a reasonable match for these... But far too specific and unvaried

Comments: Not only would I not replace this, I was happy to pull it out and sell it at a loss. It's not neccesarily a bad pickup, but it doesn't live up to the description by a mile. This is after a direct A/B comparison with the real thing, where the full size one shone. I love Seymour Duncan gear, but this was not for me. Still better than the Squier single coil though ;)
I've been playing for just over a year, and as well as the amp and FX gear described above, I own 3 guitars- a stock '00 Gibson SG Special (lovely), a stock '91 Fender Japan '60s Hot Rod Reissue- superb piece of work- and my hot rodded Squier.

Pickup features: Passive Single coil (humbucking sound)
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Fender American Stratocaster Tradicional
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Fender Standard
Other pickups on guitar: Fender Standard
Artists using this pickup: don?t know
You musical style(s): Britpop
Reason for pickup change: Needed a humbuckin sound for base

Perceived output level: Hot...really hot
Tone: Bassy Trebly...not to much middy
Sonic evaluation: Fender twin reverb

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable:

Comments:

Pickup features: Passive humbucking
Impedence or other specs: go to Seymour's website

Model of guitar or bass: Fender American Standard Strat w/rosewood board
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Duncan APS-1 alnico 2's
Other pickups on guitar: Little '59 neck and bridge, APS-1 in middle
Artists using this pickup: i dunno
You musical style(s): rock/blues/r&b/pop
Reason for pickup change: I love my Strat, but I am a sucker for a good humbucker. I love the extra fatness for chords and leads

Perceived output level: Similiar to a vintage style humbucker, not quite as hot as full sized humbucker
Tone: What you would expect from a humbucker-fat, singing mids, right amount of highs
Sonic evaluation: I play a variety of styles (no metal) through a Mesa Rectoverb 50 (yes, I said no metal!). My Strat was sounding great thru the Mesa, but then I heard a Les Paul thru-aye caramba! I knew then that I wanted to add humbuckers to my Strat w/o modification, so I thought I would try these. I love them-fat, crunchy, but not overly hot, like a good humbucker should sound. No, it doesn't make my Strat sound like a Les Paul-there are too many other factors at work (bolt on neck, scale length, wood, weight, etc) for that to be possible. But I wasn't expecting or wanting it to sound exactly like a Les Paul-I wanted to keep the feel (25 1/2" scale) of a Strat with a fatter, punchier sound, and this pickup delivers that very well. I originally wired it up to have split coil in the 2 & 4 positions, which sounded good, but the volume loss was a big problem in live situations. I now have it wired up in standard series mode for both the neck and bridge, and this actually blends very well with the alnico 2 in the middle. It's not as hollow or quacky, but punchier and fuller, which works out better onstage. My Strat absolutely screams thru my Mesa now-I am very pleased (for now!)

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: see above for styles-this pickup suits them all very well

Comments: I love these pickups-I would replace them with the same models if I had to. I have been playing for 28 years (gasp!), and have always been tone obsessed, and I am very pleased with my tone now (as are others). I haven't tried the other single coil sized humbuckers out there, but these capture the tone I want-a bigger, fatter, punchier Strat (with no noise!)

Pickup features: single-coil sized humbucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: tele-ish
Position: middle
Pickup being replaced: strat mongrel
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s):
Reason for pickup change: I needed more power than a stock strat pickup

Perceived output level: nowhere near as powerful as a full sized Gibson humbucker
Tone: eh--bland mush
Sonic evaluation: I use a lot of different gear, but lets say Fender, Boogie, and Marshall

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play whatever I want

Comments: This pu does not deliver humbucking power in a small size. It does deliver a mushy tone that in some ways resembles a full size Seymour Duncan mediocrity, but is not as strong or clear as your average Gibson humbucker (of which I have many different types).

Pickup features: Humbucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Tele
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Seymour Duncan Hot Stack
Other pickups on guitar: Stock Neck (never use it)
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s):
Reason for pickup change: In Search Of: Smoothness

Perceived output level: Pretty Hot
Tone: MIIIIIDDDDDYYYY
Sonic evaluation: This pickup sucks the big one. It only lasted a month in there before I had to get rid of it. No matter how I eq'd it was so nasally and full of mids I had to get rid of it. Some other poster had the same problem but said he rewired it etc... Screw that. I'm not going through it. Why doesn't duncan make a JB for a TELE???

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable:

Comments: If you like mids...this is the pickup for you. It sounded absolutely nothing like a Les Paul which is obviously how duncan markets this pickup. I'm not going to bother describing my rig....i've played guitar for 15 years, and this thing is the Mid Machine.

Pickup features: humbucker (single coil size)
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: tokai lawsuit strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: stock
Other pickups on guitar: lil 59er (neck), duckbucker (middle), lil 59er ( bridge)
Artists using this pickup: me
You musical style(s): jam band, fusion/jazz, Phish, Grateful Dead, Steve Kimock, John Maclaughlin (Miles Davis: Tribute to Jack Johnson--buy this album), Llama (www.houseofllama.com)
Reason for pickup change: Old stock pickups weren't hot enough. Also, not wrapped/dipped sufficently. Did a beeswax dip, and it helped alittle with the noise. But these are quite as hell.

Perceived output level: Pretty hot, PAF sound, and classic strat phase (duckbucker), fatter
Tone: great midrange, great torque, very hot--much more than stock, no noise, balanced
Sonic evaluation: So I took the old Axe in for a gutting. I threw in 59er-Duckbucker-59er. Also, after jamming with my friend (and consequently the lead guitarist for Llama) Ben Brown. By the way, Llama jammed Bonnaroo in Manchester TN in June 2002(www.bonnaroo.com). Anyway, he has a custom Strat (all warmoth I believe)and he had discarded the limited 5-way selector switch for three on/off mini switches. I thought this was a great idea. It sounds like alot of switches, but you never get confused,like with those new 7 position switches. I also had the two tone knobs rewired to be two master tones, which is really fun. So, my setup is as follows. I'm running my recently gutted and revived axe through an Ernie Ball volume pedal--dunlop crybaby (standard, but I want a Teese or a modded Vox)--Ibanez Ts7 (short word about the Ts7. This pedal comes standard with a JRC4558D, and all yall gear junkies know what this is. Don't pay some dude 80 bucks to mod out your TS9, this pedal is the best deal on the market,If you don't believe me, crack one open and see.) so gear right... Volume--wah--TS7--Boss DS-1 (great pedal, great price, you can pick it up for 25 bucks)--Ross Compressor Clone (expensive but worth it at Analogman.com)--digitech whammy--Boss EQ (7 band)--Peavey Delta Blues(15 inch speaker and 30 watts, and EL84s). So thats the setup. I use the TS7 for Phish/Trey sounds (the Ross really makes the sound). I use the DS-1 for Hendrix type stuff, if you've heard the Hendrix Blues album, the DS-1 is very similar to "Born Under a Bad Sign" and "Catfish Blues." Back to the Guitar. With the three switches, the bridge and neck on sounds kinda like a growling Les Paul (which is what its supposed to sound like, but not quite as midrangy, which is fine by me). When the middle is added, you get a beefy phased sound which is great for jam band stuff. The lead is probably the most improved, and the master tone(s) make is very useable (I rarely used it before).

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Great match for what I play. Edge when you want it, glass when you want it, butter when you want it. I am want for nothing. (except maybe a boomerang sampler, but I don't plan on selling a kidney any time soon)

Comments: Its great. Would replace if lost, stolen, or burned. So if you're a hippy that started playing guitar before pot became your life, and your a decent player that knows what sounds good and what sounds like shit, then you should try these. Feel free to drop me a line about gear ( I assure you I only have limited knowledge), and I'll try to help as much as possible.

Pickup features: Humbucker in single coil sized package.
Impedence or other specs: feck if i know

Model of guitar or bass: MIM strat
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: stock pup
Other pickups on guitar: stock
Artists using this pickup: feck if i know
You musical style(s): heavy Blues, to punk and deathmetal.
Reason for pickup change: Stock pup where realllly thin and weak sounding.

Perceived output level: medium hot.
Tone: Balenced, fat low end tone with glassy bright high end.
Sonic evaluation: MIM strat into a Peavey Audition 110 with a RP100 inbetween.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: its good for what i play. Might not be good if your one of those high end supppppper output mesa boogie freaks.

Comments: if lost would for sure replace it.