Seymour Duncan SH-13 Dimebucker

Passive Humbucker in bridge, different looking pegs(Line instead of pegs-like the X2N), little copy of dimebag's signature in corner.

This pickup came stock with my Dean Razorback shards in the bridge position.

I am way over the top when it comes to things I become obsessed with so I bought tons of pickups and tried each of them out for a little bit (Short list: Pearly gates, X2N, Invader, Jazz, Super Distortion, '59, JB, EMG-81/85, Bill Lawrence X500XL) and for this guitar I prefer the dimebucker. It is a little trebly, but with a volume loss capicator it turns down well when you want something with less highs.

I play music from Hard rock - blues - heavy metal, and I enjoy this pickup for all of it. I actually enjoy it for the reason other people complain. The shrillness helps set it apart from my other guitars/pickups and helps me have an alternative.

I have been playing for 3 years. I had played through a Mesa Rect-o-verb combo, but I am now using a Mesa Road King II. I enjoy how this pickup sounds on both the clean and distorted channel.

I feel like this pickup provides me what I am after, something that is apart from the X2N/EMG/Invader sound providing more clarity and less bass (Mesa amps have more than enough bottom end) while still providing a high output sound.

You have read all the specs before

dean dime-o-flame

Well picture this, i played my cousins dean from hell, was blown away completely, find out that the dime-o-flame was about ??150 cheaper, so i decide to get it. Over all the guitar is great, i love deans but this pickup is terrible. i mean it really is bad. Its too trebbily for anyones liking and any forms of tone in the guitar is crushed by this thing. Once onstage i was playing using some equiptment left by the previous band, we were a follow up act. anyway i plugged this thing into the other guys boss metal zone and a weeper wah, and can i tell u something, the sound would of been harsh enuff to make a child cry. it was horrible, however if i had not changed to the dean hand wounded pickup in the neck then im sure we would not of got back in. At the moment my guitar is in the shop to get an original floyd rose and hopefully a Bill Lawrence XL-500 or a seymour duncan blackout, il try both :p

Please if u read this pay attention ive been playing for 4 years, i know my stuff, do as everyone else says, do not get this pick-up, dime never used it, so do not get it cause u wanna sound like him. This is by far the worst seymor duncan ive ever used, but generally seymour duncan pick ups are amazing. I wish i had of got the dean from hell and saved my troubles and embarassment!

Well my previous writting pretty much says all, this humbucker looks great if its any consolation. if it were stolen id laugh at the poor person who stole it. Get a bill laurence, or a blackout or even an emg 85. This pickup is terrible

Passive humbucker, if you buy it not installed in a guitar, it will have four-conductor wiring, it'll be a two-conductor on any of the Deans.

I put mine in the bridge of my Aria Pro II explorer copy, replacing the stock Epiphone Les Paul-sounding bridge pick-up. I bought the pick-up three to four years ago and have played it through a variety of amps since.

I'll preface this by saying it's going to sound completely different on different amps. The output is pretty darned high though. I have a Bill Lawrence XL 500 in another of my guitars, it beats the pants off of that.I have a Randall RH100 head which has a habit of making most pick-ups sound good. I've tried this alongside a mate's guitar (a Dean MLwhich he'd changed the pick-ups to EMG 81/85 combo) and it didn't necessarily sound better, but more guitary though. The clean tone seemed to have more character, and though artificial harmonics were slightly harder to achieve than on the EMGs, natural harmonics had more of a ring to them and I'm tempted to say more sustain. Fiddly single notes thrown into largely power-chord based riffs were clear and pronounced, and the all-round frequency response seemed a good basis on which to dial in your own preferred settings. Depending on amp/EQing, you'll be able to achieve just about any guitar tone that's not the weak and papery horrible noise Razorlight and Snow Patrol for some reason spend thousands on. IE you can use it for any type of metal, hard rock, I'd imagine jazz players would also enjoy the high output and clarity, definitely good for blues.

The pick-up works happily with valve (not 'tube' but VALVE) amps. You may find it hard to keep a clean channel completely clean at high level gigging volumes mind you, but I find it comes across as a nice little bit of 'dirt' as opposed to the sound of an amp malfunctioning.

Don't buy ANYTHING based on internet reviews. Its always best to try stuff out in your local guitar shop with a rig as close as possible to yours and bear in mind if you have a preferred EQing, you probably will have to adjust this to accomodate any new hardware but hopefully achieve a better outcome than you had to begin with. The Dimebucker, put quite simply, shreds. If you're replacing a stock pick-up on a cheapish guitar you'll definitely prefer it. I am tempted to buy more for my other guitars but would feel a bit silly with a Dimebag-clone rig and I'd like to have a bit of a variety too.

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I play a custom ibanez. I had the body cut from a shop that does custom work. Its basically a alder body cut exactly like a jem but with string through fixed bridge. Maple neck rosewood board. Bill Lawrence L500 in the neck. Plugged into a Laney VH100R into a 4x12 with jensen spkrs. I use a menatone blue collar to boost and add some dirt.
I play metal - rock - punk

I had a dimarzio X2N in the bridge.. Its sounded good. Nice and bright.. high output with a chunky muting but my gripe was it had too much midrange. especially cause I was using the blue collar in front of the amp - which is like a tubescreamer. It was a good pickup for lead work but all the notes mushed together when chording and rythems.. No note separation... leads though sounded good.. So I put the Dimebucker in and presto! I like that the mids are a little lowered and flatter.... you could hear each note in a chord with distortion. Much more clear sounding and the leads wernt bad at all. Its generally very bright but smooth and warm cause the bass is still there even though its bright.. Probably cause the mids are kept down..

Very high output which is a needed for hard rock... Perfect sound.. I think it is more suited for hybrid strats.. I think it might be a little shrill in a maple topped Les Paul.. I think alder warms the pickup up alot.
Excellent note separation. Better for rythem.

i bought a gibson flying v, with the dimebucker already installed

exactly what i was looking for, instant improvement on my metal sound

id buy another one, no question about it, high output- screaming harmonics. it makes me feel like shredding.

The Dimebucker is mounted in the bridge position, and typically works along side .11 GHS Boomer Strings. It is a passive, humbucking pickup.

The pick up is mounted in an older Godin LG, which currently retains the factory neck pickup. I installed it about 4 years ago, as I was looking for something heavier than what the stock bridge components provided. This was all right around the time I heard the solo to "Floods" by Pantera for the first time; which sort of helped sway my decision. I listen to a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Zakk Wylde, Slash, and now-a-days, Buckethead. I figured this pick up would be somewhere in the neighborhood of Wylde and Slashes sound, and I wasn't too far off.

This is a very high output pick up. I typically practice on a Marshall AVT50, with a Dunlop Crybaby thrown in the mix for good measure. All in all, I like this pick up for the most part; but on the Marshall combo when distorted, especially at lower volumes, it tends to sound rather muddy, and flat. The clean tone is bright, rich, and snappy; which is great for blues as it sounds sort of SRV like.
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Plugged into my Peavy Classic 30 tube amp, with the volume cranked up, and gain set to high, this thing screams like you wouldn't believe. I've played at jam sessions with this set up, with other guitarists on full Marshall stacks, and the snarl emitted by this particular set up was so furiously, sweet, and heavy; that we actually had to stop playing to compare the sounds, back to back. The little overdriven 30 watt tube amp, my Godin, and this pick up simply outshone, and out toned, any other guitar and amp combo in the room.

My style of guitar playing is sort of varied, it's mostly blues based sounding, although probably more aggressive, and heavy than typical blues; as I play a lot of rock, and metal too. Lots of bending, pinch harmonics, hammer ons, and pulls offs ect.

If it was destroyed of stolen, I'd probably get it again; although I'm just now looking into other potential options. I love the distorted sound when the volume's turned up, and especially when plugged into a true tube amp. I really like the clean tone as well. However I hate how flat, and muddy it sounds at anything other than high volume levels.

I've been satisfied with this pick up for the past 5 years or so, and I'll probably put it into another one of my guitars, but at the moment I'm looking for something with slightly richer tone to put into my main guitar.

Passive humbucker.

It is loaded in a vintage Randy rhoads signature setup like Alexi laiho's old jackson. Schaller floyd rose etc... This pickup is in the bridge with no neck pickup. My RR came with it installed.

The output isn't too bad. I've used it through a randall 250watt half stack with great lead tones but rather thin without a lot of reverb. In the house I run a peavey stereo chorus 2x12 and a Peavey classic VT 4X10 driven by a digitech distortion factory pedal with a slightly crunchier thicker tone.

I play melodic metal, blues, and jazz. It has a great overdriven tone and a SRV style snarl on clean.

I however have found my MIM Strat with a DG-20 and my stock epiphone alleykat (yes the semihollow) to have the superior metal tones with my setup. then again this is my setup and everyones rig is different. I may try loading it into a thicker bodied guitar since i've heard that makes a difference. However, with a thin body I'd personally go with the EMG 81's.

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Passive

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What model guitar or bass did you install this in:Ibanez RG350EX
What position is it in:Bridge
Other pickups installed on the instrument:'59 in the neck,stock middle
Any artists using this pickup:dimebag ,mark morton(lamb of god),Me
Reason for changing the pickup:wanted a more bassier sound with improved harmonics

What's the output level like:very high output
What amps and effects are you using it with:Randall RG200G3,Dunlop crybaby
Tone - Bassy, middy, muddy, trebly, balanced:lots of bass,just the right amount of treble and very nice mids
What style of music do you play? Is this a good match:i mainly play metal on this guitar and it does a very good job of doing the metal sound
For which positions is this pickup (un)suitable:this pickup was meant to be in the bridge position

If it was destroyed or stolen, would you buy it again or get something else:i would definatley buy another if it was damaged,if somone stole i would scratch my head and try and figure out why someone would only steal a pickup
How long have you been playing? What other gear do you own:i have been playing for almost 5 years now.

Ive tried it out in a Dean ML.
Its in the bridge position with an Alnico II Pro Humbucker in the neck & it blends superbly with it.

Very high output.
i use Marshall amps and have a Boss Ge-7 effects system.
I usually play Metal and it really suits me a lot.
I say everybody TRY OUT THIS PICKUP IN THE BRIDGE WITH A SEYMOUR DUNCAN ALNICO II PRO HUMBUCKER IN THE NECK.

i would buy it again if it was stolen.
i also own an ABH-1 Blackouts & EMG-81.
all the pickups i own are really great.
i am experimenting with sound, thats how i found that DIMEBUCKER(bridge) blends brillianty with APH-1 ALNICO II PRO.
TRY OUT THIS COMBINATION

Humbucker passive pick up

Edwards Viper Baritone

I'm sorry. I can't speak english.
I think this pick up is specialized for death metal.
Rich bass and razorblade treble. Not noisy.
If your guitar was thick body and have a nice boom this pick up was a right choice.
I'm very satisfied this twin blade pick up on my Viper Baritone.