Seymour Duncan SH-1 '59

Pickup features: passive humbucking
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Epiphone Dot 335
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Stock Samsung humbuckers
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: Bunches.
You musical style(s): Uh...pop, I think. Close enough.
Reason for pickup change: Stock Samsung pickups suck.

Perceived output level: Slightly more than the stock pickups.
Tone: Balanced and sweet, with a slight upper-mid bump.
Sonic evaluation: I'm using this pickup in my new Epi Dot 335. I run it into an Ibanez Tube
King and put it in the front of my 1967 Fender Bassman. Poor 335 worshipers
take note: If you want a great-sounding guitar for not a lot of money, get a
Dot and put these Duncans in it. You won't be sorry. I did and I love the sound.
All the versatility and soul of a 335 without worrying about its market value.
These pickups really transform this guitar into something spectacular. I'm often
asked about the guitar after shows. The '59s gave this Korean cheapee a voice--quite
a feat. Complex and airy highs, accurate bass, sweet upper mids, and a medium (yet
healthy) output.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I wouldn't use this pickup for metal, but you could get away with it. It is versatile as hell.

Comments: I don't know if this is the most "authentic" PAF made, but it is damn
good for the price. And it really does wonders for the Epi's! I love it. I'd buy
it again in a flash.

Pickup features: passive humbucker
Impedence or other specs: 7.43 k, resonant peak at 6,8 kHz

Model of guitar or bass: 1989 American Fender Strat
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: Fender strat standardt single coil
Other pickups on guitar: fender strat stand. sc in middle, two Fender strat stand. single coils connected in series
Artists using this pickup: Scott Henderson, and a lot of other artists.
You musical style(s): Jazz-Blues Rock- Blues, Fusion, many other styles
Reason for pickup change: Fender strat stand. sc. was really trebly, and the high end was not solid, without sustain. Not clear with overdriven.

Perceived output level: Louder than single coils (of course)
Tone: Well balanced, warm. At the same time bright and bassy, it requires to be setted far from bass strings and close to the high ones. Very good when clean, with a nice sustain. A bit muddy when overdriven, but it would depend on my pre amp kind of distortion. When split it sounds like the original Fender sc. (I don't loose the original sound!!)
Sonic evaluation: I use a Twin V Mesa- Boogie pedal preamp with a Fender Showman transistor amplifier, trying to enrich the sound with a few Boss effect pedals. The preamp clean channel is very sweet and full, real expressive with SH-1, expecially with the gain pot setted around 7

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Very good for blues when clean or with a few distortion. Not enough clear for jazz runs, but works quite well for jazz chords.

Comments: I like a lot the sound of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Scott Henderson, and I was lookin' for such a kind of sound for my strat. I made some interesting modifications on my guitar: now I have two splittable humbuckers and one single coil, and I can connect with a simple switch the neck and the bridge pickups so, working with the 5-position switch, I can use three pickups at the same time: what a nice, clear bell-like tone !!!! Very good clean sound is also the match between SH-1 and the series connection of 2 Fender Strat single coils I have in the Bridge position.

Pickup features: Passive Humbucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Gibson ES-335 DOT
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Gibson stock (mid 80's patent stamp, maybe 498's)
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): southern rock, blues
Reason for pickup change: When using a little bit of dirt, the stock Gibson pickups are too muddy sounding and lack definition when playing in the higher registers. Besides, the guitar is suposed to be a reissue, but it had 80's style pickups.

Perceived output level: seems to me to be a little tamer than the origional, this is so to get a nice clean sound.
Tone: The responce seem to be fairly balanced with a little bit of punch in the upper mids. It also seem to generate a nice bell-like tone for a more vintage sound.
Sonic evaluation: Nice sound, It cuts well in a stage setting. Its still a little too warm in the lower registers, but you can play with the pole hight adjustments to change that.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Any rock or blues when a more vintage tone is important.

Comments: I would buy it again, this pickup delivers an excellent tone tha can be heard through th noise of the band. A nice, close-to-vintage sound.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Pickup features: Trembucker
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Fender Mexican Strat
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Stock Standard SC - Ceramic Magnet
Other pickups on guitar: Stock
Artists using this pickup: ?
You musical style(s): Classic Rock, R&B, some Jazz
Reason for pickup change: Wanted fuller,crunchier sound in the virtually useless (to me) bridge only position. Yet wanted to maintain split (position #4) "in-between sound"

Perceived output level: A little hotter, not much, though than stock bridge-
Tone: As a full HB it's what I was looking for...no 21 day deal here. It also splits well- very bright
Sonic evaluation: I'm glad I made the change out. The full HB "drives" my Fender amp much better than the stock SC when the "lead channel" is activated.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: None I can think of

Comments: Again, glad I did the swap out

Pickup features: Passive Humbucker (Split-coil)
Impedence or other specs: FIIK

Model of guitar or bass: Hamer Sunburst
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: Original ???
Other pickups on guitar: Duncan JB in the bridge position
Artists using this pickup: FIIK
You musical style(s): Blues (with an edge) and Rock
Reason for pickup change: My son decided to "adjust" the original pick-up with a flat-blade screwdriver and damaged the coil wire. (Why is this pick-up suddenly so weak: FIIK?)

Perceived output level: Standard for a humbucker; not real hot but strong and smooth.
Tone: Pretty much balanced.
Sonic evaluation: The original may have been a Duncan '59 because there wasn't much sonic variance
when the new one was installed. I wired this pick-up for coil-splitting and so now
have a sc/hb option at the neck position: sounds like a fat Tele. The volume and fullness
drop, as can be expected, when in sc mode, but it sounds sweet.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Blues/rock/jazz: just about anything I guess.

Comments: I'd probably buy it again. I really didn't compare it to anything else but simply bought it upon reviews/recommendations and price. Maybe I could have done better, and certainly could have done worse.
I can't say it has the best tone on the market, but it works for me.