Seymour Duncan SH-13 Dimebucker

Seymour Duncan SH-13 Dimebucker, passive humbucker.

DC resistance 16,25 kohm, resonant peak 5,1 kHz, ceramic magnet. Two metal blades in the magnets.

It came with four conductors, so coil splitting is possible, but I use it only in humbucking mode.

Jackson JS30 King V, alder body, bolt on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard.

It is in the bridge position (obviously), pairing SH-2 Jazz model in the neck. I replaced Jackson's weak stock pickups.

Seymour Duncan's website states the Dimebucker to be suited for all guitars, and both humbucker and trembucker spacings (because of the magnets' blade construction).

According to manufacturer's web site, Mark Morton and Dimebag Darrel used this pickup. I think Dimebag used actually a Bill Lawrence pickup, but this is very similar, if not a copy of that pickup.

This is marketed as a ultra high output pickup, but I don't think this is so hot. Pretty much as loud as the SH-2 Jazz in the neck. For me it's a good thing though, I don't use tube amplification (at least not yet) so too much output is bad for solid state amplification and digital processing. I'm happy with the output: quite high but not too much.

I have a 100 watt solid state amplifier and a Zoom G7.1ut processor for distortion and effects.

The most relevant property of this pickup is it's scooped mid-range. Normally, I pump up the gain on my distortion an then scoop the mids with an eq. Using the normal adjustments, this pickup sounds dry and gets lost in the mix, behind the other instruments.

When I don't scoop the mids at all with my processor, the sound gets richer and easier to hear, and the mid scoop is still there because of the pickup's own mid-scoop. But the sound is very different from "normal pickup - eq mid-scoop" distortion. Whether you like it or not, it's up to your own preference. IF you like Dimebag's sound, you propably like this pickup. If you like Metallica's massive rhythm sound, you'll be happier with some other pickup.

I play heavy metal, and this pickup is suitable for some certain metal sounds, not all. I don't know if this is a proper pickup for other styles. Also I play my cleans with my neck pickup, but the Dimebucker has it's own tone to it in cleans also, maybe some players find it useful for them. With cleans I have heard that this pickup crunches an distorts the sound easily, so be careful with adjustments if you are going to use this for clean sound.

I have no plans of replacing my Dimebucker, but if it was stolen maybe I would go and try another kind of pickup. Just to get experience from different pickups. I'm satisfied with this pickup though.

I have been playing for five years, and as I mentioned, I use solid state amplification and digital processing and distortion. And I play heavy metal.

This pickup has very "nasty" and characteristic sound when you get the adjustments right. Be ready to make some heavy changes to your adjustments if you start using this pickup!

What I don't like about this pickup is that is has quite narrow range of sound options. A great pickup, good Seymour Duncan quality, but only for that Pantera-like distorted sound. If you want to emulate Dimebag's sound, or create your own sound which has some strong characteristics of it, this is your pickup.

See every other review; this ground has already been covered.

Here's my exciting story: I have 3 Les Pauls (an '89 Standard, two '94 studios.) I'm aware of the fact that there is a certain "Gibson mystique" that indicates that some Gibsons sound amazing while others sound...less so. In my case, the Standard was by far the weakest of the three, which was very sad. So after playing a show and noticing that my #4 guitar (a Peavey JF-1 that I bought new for $275) sounded <i>better</i> than the Standard, I decided that it was time to make some changes.

Since replacing pickups is considerably more arduous than, say, finding a new amp, I spent a bunch of time reading about it online, and then I spent a bunch of time standing around on the front porch talking to my housemates about it, and then eventually I realized that I have no idea about anything so I went to my favorite guitar store and looked at their selection of pickups, and I ended up buying one of these things used for 50 bucks because I'm superficial and easily swayed by words like "high output".

I put this pickup in the bridge position for several reasons including the fact they tell you to but mostly because I don't ever use neck pickup ever and that would be a waste of time. The neck pickup continues to be whatever the stock neck pickup on an '89 Les Paul is.

Regarding other players using these things, I'm sure there are a bunch of metal dudes playing these pickups. I can tell you that this factor had no influence on my choosing this pickup. Awesome!

The output on this pickup is a big upgrade over the previous pickup. It sounds loud and obnoxious, just like me. It has a lot of highs and lows and sounds all scoopy and metal, and it makes it nice and easy to do those tasty squealies that my bass player hates so much.

My setup is totally unnecessarily large, but here goes; I come out of the guitar into a Morley A/B/Y box, and from that into a Marshall JCM 2000 Triple Super Lead Half stack on stage right and a Peavey 5150 half stack on stage left. I have a BBE Sonic Maximizer in the Effects loop on the 5150, and that's it for effects (if you feel like the BBE is an "effect").

I rather like the tone that this pickup gives me. I play rock 'n roll with some punk and ska mixed in there, and this pickup gives me a nice aggressive tone with a lot of definition. I play a lot of open chords with distortion, and they don't sound muddy. I also play a lot of power chords with palm muting, and they sound well defined and crunchy. It's working out nicely. I'm giving it a 9 because it makes me happy, and because giving it a 10 would be unreasonable until I've tried every other pickup out there, and who has time for all that soldering?

I've been playing guitar for like 15 years now. I have a large collection of unnecessary pointy guitars and strange Les Pauls, and approximately 3 more half stacks than any normal person needs. I fail to see how this information is helpful to my review of this pickup, but whatever.

I actually liked this fellow so much that I wend out and bought more of them and put them in my other guitars. Hooray for being one-dimensional! I assume this means that I would replace it if it broke or was stolen, but since I have no real basis for comparison (other than the stock pickup that Mr. Dimebucker sounded better than), I'm probably not the best judge on this.

The thing that I love most about this pickup is that it makes me feel empowered, like I did something to improve my tone instead of simply buying more amps, which has been my default strategy. Yay me! The thing I like least about this pickup is that I don't really like the way it looks, which is petty and superficial but that's just how I roll.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with this pickup. It's also nice to know that replacing pickups is not nearly as intimidating as I though it might be, and so if I get sick of this one down the road I can always swap it out for something else. However for the time being I'm happy with the Dimebucker, so I'll leave it at that.

I'll give this an overall rating of 9 because (as I mentioned previously) it's doing a nice job but there may be something better out there (I'm just too lazy to look for it.)

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.

Obviously

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.

Humbucking

Passive

16.2k

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.

This is a passive standard humbucker sized dual rail pickup.
It has the usual Seymour Duncan 4 wire connections.

I have a Jackson DK2S and this pickup was already in the bridge. I remember having liked the Kramer Quadrail pickup which is a similar design, but I expected a better pickup coming from Seymour Duncan. It sounded ok at first, so I installed a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail Classic which is a stacked passive humbucker pickup that also has the rail design like the Dimebucker. Once the Hot rail was in it made the Dimebucker sound like a chump. I will be continuing to mod this guitar as it has a good neck but the Dimebucker will not be part of the plan. There are just way too many pickups that beat this pup by a mile, including a large number of other Seymour Duncan pickups.

The Dimebucker lacks good separation and definition, this is ok for high gain metal rythm, but it is not the best or even close to the many other options available. I installed it, played it, compared it with another Seymour of similar type but far more gain. Dont buy this pickup because it has the Dimebag Signature on the plastic cover, that is not a good way to select your pups. Whether or not you are a fan of Dimebags guitar playing not all of the MANY products that he got paid to endorse are top of the line stuff.

I run all my guitars through everything from a Roland Microcube to a Laney AOR Half Stack and several in between, the results were consistent. Dont waste your money, I know it is hard for some to not buy a product endorsed by a guitar player you really like, and I am sure that some of the products he endorsed are great, this is just not one of them.

Humbucking mega high output passive humbucker, but if you're looking at this you already know that don't you?

I put this in a '61 reissue SG bridge position. Replacing the stock 500T? Anyway, I've had this pickup for about two years, and at the time I bought it I was looking for a good lead metal pickup. The stock bridge was far too warm for what I was looking for.

VERY high output. I've used this setup through several different amp/speaker combinations. I was playing metal at the time and bouncing back and forth between a Line 6 Flextone II and a Marshall DSL. Use an equalizer to get the perfect tone for each part. Sounds great for tight fast "metalcore?" riffs with a lot of palm muting, but is also decent for soloing. You can get amazing harmonics out of this pup without even trying. What I dislike about this pup is that when you roll back the volume it really boxes it in. This was made to be played Full Out! Ok, now for what I'm playing currently: I switched up styles and am now rocking an Indie style. I'm playing through an Orange Rockerverb 100 and a Matchless. The Orange I play with the master dimed and just a hair of gain to get that full on output tube distortion. The punch is amazing, the Orange has a darker tone than the jangly Matchless which is incredibly bright. Now I thought this pickup wouldn't be suited to this style of playing: lots of "barely dirty" arpeggiated chords, and clean solo runs. But I'm glad I was proven wrong. I'm very happy with how versatile and defined this pickup is. Even with clean jangly chords it doesn't sound too harsh. That being said, there is still no character when you roll the volume back.

I'd definitely buy it again if something happened to it. I've been playing for 8 years and have owned innumerable different amps and effects. I play through an SG- DB in the bridge PAF in the neck, a Fender Esquire GT- soon to have an SH-10 in the bridge, an 80's japan superstrat with dimarzio single coils and a custom wound hb in the bridge. Play through Orange and Matchless amps into vintage 30 cabs. Use a voodoo sparkle drive, OS-1, DS-3, GE-7, CE-5, PH-3, and a DD-3. I bought it for metal, then switched styles and it worked beautifully. I've been able to coax all sorts of sounds that I wasn't expecting. Great for metal, but try it out with other sounds and you'll be surprised!

Ok Dimebags signiture Seymour Duncan made humbucker its 16.2 k of power (plenty enough)

Its on my custom guitar (basic PRS shape with a neck for shredding - black korina with pau ferro neck) right for starters this pick up is fucking sick!!!! it is very very very very very good at Metal (if u follow damageplan, pantera, soulfly etc its amazing (dosnt quite handle your less aggressive more melodic generes of metal example Dream Theater) (it also can get unstuck with a few Megadeth tunes) this thing takes dirty riffs and eats em up it is very tight and nice and loud (blow the crowds eyes into their socks!) its got great treble its an amazing pickup! however it really isnt very god at mutch else (dont go for it and beleive you could pull off a nice blues tune (even aggressive blues wont work) and its too far gone for rock (Led Zeppelin, GNR, Randy Rhoades stuff etc) but with metal (rib breaking skull crushing ear 'ploding metal!) it is in its element. Its better than emgs (fuck those too much hassle) its is by far the best metal pick up for heavy riffing and harmonics out there!

read above! I use it with STK-S2 Hot Stack (its a Duncan single coil size humbucker) and its sits in the while dimebucker is on the bridge to gether these are the best combination of metal pick ups i spent ages trying to find a set of pick ups that would complement each other so if your getting a neck pick up for your dimebucker make sure its a Hot Stack single coil size HB!!!! They are awsome together plus they are both bladed so they match (if thats wat u worry about???!?!?!?!?)

Ive been playing for 13 years now and i know a thing or 2 about pickups so if you want metal tone which with make everything peel and bleed they get these two as a scorching pair! they are awsome metal combination its taken me about 8-10 years to get the right metal pick ups and this is them but only for metal remember Hot Stack (Blade) Single Coil size Humbucker (neck position) in the neck and a SH13 Dimebucker (blade) in the Bridge and play METAL!!!!!!!!!!!

Humbucking, rail style, ceramic pickup
passive with massive output

Installed in a POS yamaha guitar in the birdge. Pickup, volume, output setup.
Just wanted to make the guitar playable, this along with fret work was done.

For starters the output on this thing is crazy. Unfortunatly this does make it somewhat undynamic, but if you like the sound it makes like I do then thats not much of a problem. Like others have said this is a thrash metal pickup ONLY. You could use it elsewhere, but metal and all its sub genres is where this baby belongs. Very trebly, whatch your amp/pedal eqs so things dont get out of hand. Tight bass and enough mids although it is safe to say it is scooped out (hence the reason it is great for thrash)

A bit pricey and a one trick pony, but its a damn good trick. You will love it or hate it. I'd buy another in a heartbeat.

This is a passive humbucking pickup with two huge metal blades, most suitable for the bridge position.

I installed this on a Jackson Warrior USA because I wanted more output from the pickups. I am not a metal guy, but a lot of my friends are and I once played in a hardcore band (jesus what a bad idea that was.)

It's in the bridge position, with a Gibson 57 classic in the neck.

In all honesty, this pickup really isn't for practical uses. I can't help but think that this is a "hey guys, look, I have a guitar that's loud as f--k!" kind of thing rather than something you can use a lot. Sure, it has a lot of high end output, and sure, the lows are tight and aggressive, but unless you are playing Metallica or Pantera all day, it's not good for anything else. And, if you do play this kind of thrash metal all day, maybe it's time to see what else is out there...?

Forget about the clean tone; you wouldn't buy this for it's clean, that wouldn't make any sense. I thought I could mix a nice clean neck pickup so when I selected both, it would be somewhat clean. I was wrong.

So, it really is a one trick pony; Pantera-type of metal. It does this really well, if that's what you are in to, but I mean, a pickup is the fundamental tone of an electric guitar, besides woods/necks/etc. Do you really want your main tone to only be able to do metal? I don't think this should have been a production run pickup; it should have just been custom made for Dimebag, not released to everyone. But, that's my opinion.

I don't think this thing can be destroyed; it's not fragile in looks or build. Someone wouldn't even have to steal it; I'm about to replace it anyway. I don't hate it, and it's not a bad pickup, but crazy compressed metal isn't my thing, really.

I've been playing for 5 years or so, been in a couple of bands, had a couple of guitars and regularly swap pickups just to see how my tone can change.

Once again, I'll make this clear: PANTERA/METALLICA/80's THRASH METALHEADS- this pickup is for YOU, and YOU only.

Humbucking, Passive, Ceramic

Installed on Jackson RR3
In the bridge position and reversed (like Dimebag used it)
I replaced Duncan Designed Detonator (Low Quality version of Invader)
In the neck i have Sh-10, but I'm thinking of replancing it with a pickup that has more mids and less treble.
Dime used to use it and i guess anyone who buys his signature series Dean guitar.
I Changed the Detonator and put Dimebucker due to the lack of quality of the detonator and i wanted the simular Dime sound, more treble less mids, and a punchy bass. Invader is a good pickup (higher quality Detonator) for Death metal with the large amount of long basses, low mids and reduced treble but the style i play and the sound i want can be achieved with SH-13 so much better.

Output lever is extrememly high for a passive pickup, perhaps the highest. That is really extraordinary because this pickup doesen't have so much mids. Only pickups that can be compared with SH-13 in terms of output and quality are SH-6 and SH-8.
I'm Using a Randall 4*12 box with Celestion speakers, Zoom 9120 Preamp (valve), Alesis Quadraverb (Modulations effects), Behringer Composer pro (compressor and limiter, noise gate) and a Peavey classic 50/50 power amp (8 x el34's).
Tone is preety bassy, but not so much and the bass response is punchy to my liking, but still there is perhaps too much of bass, Midds are not so much muddy, but then there isen't too much mids in this pickup, the trebs are preety strong in this pickup and i believe that their main frenqency response varies around 4k what gives you a good shreding treble sound - just what i need. This pickup is alos preety good for cleans since it doesen't have that many mids. It has a lot of nice presence - a thing a like in cleans on a bridge pickup. Perhaps here the punchy bass is somewhat not a good caratheristic since i want when playing cleans more a longer bass response, a kind of bass response that lingers strongly until i play another low note. Doing Solos with this pickup isn't all that bad if you are into Death metal Or Slayer like soloing, for a more ambiental solos that i do, there just too much presence and treble and lack of mids.
I play mostly Thrash metal and when i play other music playstyles my sound doesen't change all that much so i would dare to say that this pickup suits my style. But i don't recomend it to people that want to play different musical styles outside metal.
The pickup is only suitable for bridge i guess....i don't see what good could a shreding high output pickup be doing in a neck position. But then you never know until you try...well maybe one day i will.

I guess i would get another one if it was stolen.
I have been playing for ten years now. I allready said what gear i own (look up).
The only bad thing about this pickup is that it has too much bass, but good equipment will solve that easily.
I compared this pickup to Other Seymour Duncans, EMG's and Dimarzios.
This is definetly a dream metal pickup: it has the output of Sh-6, the shredding sound of Sh-10, the bass of sh-8 nad the nice cleans tones of sh-5. Compared to EMG's, weel it's passive what means it's not so much artificialy sounding and it has a better EQ then EMG 81 and 85. Dimarzio high gain pickups can't reach this baby in quality.

Passive humbucker with twin blade pieces. Not sure on impedance but its quite a hot humbucker as you would expect.

I installed this into my 1995 USA Charvel SanDimas II. Its a Koa body/birdseye maple neck strat style guitar with two humbuckers. The original pickup was a Dimarzio Super 3 which was ok but was pretty thin sounding, didnt have enough chunk for my liking. In the neck position is the original Dimarzio Evolution (Steve Vai) pickup which matches nicely with the Dimebucker.

This is a bridge position pickup as you are probably aware, and although it seems to have quite a high output its not the loudest pickup I own. Very very good for chunky riffs and lightning fast solo's. If you cant get pinch harmonics screaming back out at you, give up. Perfect for Pantera/Damageplan/ZakkWylde or similar stuff. Cemetery Gates riff no worries! Back off the volume and it wont get real clean but has a nice tight ACDC crunch. This has given me that extra edge towards my perfect sound, Im still grinning after a month.

I have another two guitars with bill lawrence L500-xl bridge humbuckers and another with EMGs. The dimebucker sits between the two in volume and to my ears has the best overall tone, but then its in my best guitar. I will be getting more of these pickups for sure.

Humbucker

This replaced the bridge pickup-another SD- for my schecter omen 6.
Main reason for changing it was the lack of high end, and the fact that it just didnt squeal like I wanted it to.

The output is only slightly higher then the neck pickup, which is perfectly acceptable for me, as Im using it for boosted leadlines anyway. The tones def. got more treble, and is rather crisp.
Im not a huge fan of the clean sound though, as its got a real strong "pluck" sound every time you pick a string.When the toggles in the middle position the tone of both pickups is very sweet,well balanced, and a lot more acceptable clean.

Ive been using this primarily through a rocktron metal planet distortion through a bbe sonic stomp, and its turned out to be a real great combo for metal tone.All my other pedals are effects like whammys and such so they arent relevant to the tone as much as these are, so I wont go into detail.Just dont boost too much or its treble will make ears bleed.

Its a nice improvement and has the lead tone to it that I needed this guitar to have.Its meant to have distortion on it(I mean cmon DIMEBUCKER), and doesnt actually feedback or hum all that often compared to the pickup it replaced.The sustain is slightly improved but nothing to really brag about.Harmonics are amazing though.They come out strong, its all I really wanted it to do-have strong harmonics and a lead tone, and I got what I wanted. For me its a ten, but I give an 8 on rating cause its limited in its uses.If you wanted to try more clean sounds, you need to have a nice neck pickup cause this isnt going to cut it.Luckily im not in aband and can improve what I want when I want, so I dont have to jump on the next pickup.
And yeah I obviously chose this cause Im a duncan fan, and a Dime fan.I mean I couldnt pass it up when i decided to upgrade, and its worth it.

Humbucker pickup, passive, blades. Comes with own mounting.

I've put this pickup in my Gibson Explorer Gothic in the bridge position. It's replaced a Seymour Duncan JB and I have a Jazz in the Neck position. I was quite happy with the JB, it had a decent output but because of the Explorer being made of mahogany it could get a little boomy. The Dimebucker has a much more focused tone.

This pickup sounds great. I was quite happy with my tone but felt it could be improved, this pickup has really done the trick. I use an Engl Powerball and Genz-Benz GFlex 4x12 and it blows everything else away. I get a really clear sound, with rich sustain and enough aggression to rip your face off. I compared it to my ESP which has EMG 81's and it doesnt come close. Before I put the Dimebucker in my Explorer I used my ESP because it sounded better, but now there's no contest. I play metal in a band called EighthNerve (www.myspace.com/eighthnerveuk) we're influenced by Killswitch, Lamb of God, Testament and Pantera so I need a tone thats tight and crisp and thats just what I get. This pickup doesnt make you sound just like Dime, I'm sure if you used Krank or Randall you could get close, but it does provided a great metal tone with plenty of scope for creating your own sound. It won't give you a great blues or creamy clean tone, but thats not what it's made for. It's made for metal and it does that better than anything I've ever herd.

I would buy another if it were lost or stolen. I've been playing for 10 years and I work in a guitar shop so I've tried and tested plenty of gear. This pickup has a great top end clarity thats sharp and cuts through but doesnt get harsh. There's nothing I'd change about this pickup. This is a great product and it's a good price too. I think I've finally found my tone.

Pickup features: humbucker/passive
Impedence or other specs: about 16k

Model of guitar or bass: Gibson Explorer
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: emg 81
Other pickups on guitar: seymour duncan 59 (neck) DIMEBAG STYLE
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Metal/Metalcore/Hardcore/
Reason for pickup change: didnt quite like the tone..

Perceived output level: hot as fuck
Tone: mid/trebely
Sonic evaluation: fucking amazing...i believe this pickup is best used in drop tunings, when flipped upside down (you'll notice many players doing that, it gives a bit more trebely sound) my guitar is in open c tuning and it sounds incredible, i play it through a peavey 6505+ and ibanez cabs loaded with celeston 90s...it sounds great for what i do, leads sound amazing, and chords sound great too,

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: metal, hardcore, etcetcetc

Comments: if this were destroyed id have to be heavily tranquilzed just to keep quiet, if it were stolen id find the perps and skull fuck them, compared to an emg 81, i like this pickup better, its got all it needs without being active, of course...my tone could always be better, but i dont see the dimebucker leaving my arsenal anytime soon

Pickup features: 2 steel blades buried in a ceramic magnet - passive humbucker
Impedence or other specs: D.C resistance 16.25K ohms, Inductance 8.45 H, Resonant Frequency 5.1KHz

Model of guitar or bass: Jackson KV2 USA
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: EMG 81
Other pickups on guitar: Really doesn't matter
Artists using this pickup: R.I.P. Dime
You musical style(s): Heavy F ' N Metal
Reason for pickup change: I was looking for a pickup with more warmth, crunch and clarity.

Perceived output level: Really hot for a passive pickup
Tone: Nicely balanced - ideal metal tone - punchy, poppy clean tone
Sonic evaluation: I'm running the V through a digitech metal master into a fender frontman 25R 75 watt amp(it only costs like $175 but it's a good little amp.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Keep it heavy! It's designed to be a bridge pickup (i wouldn't even consider putting it in the neck)

Comments: OK HERE WE GO LISTEN UP EVERYONE!
I never felt the need to offer a review on anything and I'll try to keep it short, BUT I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY WHICH MAY BE OF VALUE TO SOME. Before I bought this pickup, I was very uncertain after the reviews I read here(read them all at least 3 times). You have to use a little psychology to evaluate the reviews, looking at what kind of gear they use, what styles, years of experience and various complaints and compliments about the product to figure out whether or not they know what the hell they are talking about. Most of them just regurgitate shit they see in other reviews. I'm just happy my instinct proved me right and I bought this.
Let me say right now that if you are not interested in heavy metal tone, then don't buy this. It is advertised and endorsed by heavy metal guys. If you are looking for a rock 'n' roll pickup seek something else. If you complain about the clean tone, who gives a shit about the clean tone when you are searching for metal tone. Any tone can be enhanced with eq. This pickup is for people who love Heavy metal. I had an emg 81 in the bridge and it was a great pickup, lacked clarity when playing fast, got a little muddy. The 81 was real heavy and chunky with some crunch and great sustain. Before that the guitar came stock with a seymour JB in the bridge. Good high output humbucker, but lacked the sustain of the actives(which makes sense) and definately was lacking in clarity, had some decent crunch to it. I dropped the dimebucker in flipped and let me tell you i was quite happy with what i got. The Distorted tone is just what it says crunchy, loud, chunky and warm. When you palm mute you get that crunchy chug while downpicking. You can make it real tight with some pressure on the bridge, or let off too loosen it up some. It has really nice sustain letting notes in the upper register hang around longer than the emg's might. Great clarity - when you might be letting the low e string just ring out, you can be playing something on the other strings and the pickup articulates each note without taking away from the ringing E or the notes you're picking. I didn't find the pickup to be too trebly at all when covering solos, it's just a good crisp metal tone. I ran thhrough a bunch of pantera songs to see if the pickup does Dime's work justice, and it certainly handles everything. As for the clean tone, as soon as I started playing my wife was in the other room and said "WOW, Thats really nice". I couldn't agree more. I started just messing around with the beginning to "shine on......." by pink floyd and it had that nice david gilmour type tone to it, almost strat-like. Really nice, sounds nice and crisp.
IN CLOSING: Let me say that technique counts for everything and affects the guitars tone. Pickup height affects the tone. The way you have your volume, gain and eq obviously affect your tone. And yes the composition of your guitar(wood, bridge, fretboard) affect your tone. Trust your instinct when buying but do your research. Sit down and screw with your equipment. Learn what best works for you. I've been playing for 13 years and I know what I like and am looking for in my tone. I think this pickup bridges the gap between high output passive humbuckers(even though it is one) and active humbuckers. It has the sustain and aggression of actives with the warmth and versatility of passives with clarity and output. I think it's a great buy.
*By the way I'm going to be purchasing the Bill Lawrence L500XL in the next month or two. I'll post a review for that as well. Hope this helped some of you, thanks for listening. Later

Pickup features: Passive. 2 stainless steel blades and a ceramic magnet, High Output,
Impedence or other specs: D.C resistance 16.25K ohms, Inductance 8.45 H, Resonant Frequency 5.1KHz

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez S 1625 TKS
Position: middle
Pickup being replaced: Ibanez Quantum 2
Other pickups on guitar: Ibanez Quantum 1
Artists using this pickup: Dime.
You musical style(s): rock to hardcore metal
Reason for pickup change: wanted better harmonics, and my clarity from the pickup

Perceived output level: Higher than a Quantum2 which is meant to be hotter than a dimarzio paf
Tone: bassy with slightly less midd and quite a lot of treble (6/5/8 - low/mid/high)
Sonic evaluation: well im going from my ibanez s 1625 into a boss tu2 and a boss ns2 into a peavey 6505+ head and a laney gs412s cab loaded with celestion seventy 80's

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: metal - perfect!! on clean its awesome as well. ive only had it in the bridge..

Comments: yes id buy another if it was destroyed. ive been playing a year but dont judge me on that. i love its harmonics and come on, it looks SIC!! i compared it to a seymour duncan full shred, duncan distortion and livewire heavey metal as well as a emg 81, 85 and 60, i chose it because in my opinion its as hot and clear as an active but without the hassle of doing loads of shit to my guitar for the actives. the only fault with it is that it should have metal mounting threads instead of a plasctic hole which you have to make a thread on. im really happy with the pickup, its awesome.

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Position: neck
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Comments: Ok folks, you want Dime's razor sharp thick-ass tone? Flip the Dimebucker upside down so that the Seymour Duncan logo is on the side towards the neck pickup. I was checking out some pics of Dime and noticed that that is the way he installed them. SD later made them flipped but with the logo facing the right way. He used to do this with his Bill Lawrence pickups as well. (You can read about it in Guitar World's Guitar Legends Dimebag tribute issue.) You will be amazed how your tone sharpens up and gets bigger balls. No shit folks, no shit. Get em, flip em and ROCK THE HUT!!!

Pickup features: Humbucking, Passive, you know the rest
Impedence or other specs: D.C. resistance isn't a reliable way of measuring output, Henry's are, 8.45 H output, which is high.

Model of guitar or bass: Epiphone Les Paul Std.
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Stock
Other pickups on guitar: Stock
Artists using this pickup: Dimebag (R.I.P. Brother)
You musical style(s): Heavy Metal
Reason for pickup change: Stock pickups were MUDDY! The output wasn't all that bad but they were very muddy.

Perceived output level: I'd say this pup gives EMGs a run for the money, minus the battery and sterile sound!
Tone: Very tight bass, almost no mids, good amount of treble
Sonic evaluation: As of now, I'm playing this Epi LP Std. through a Line 6 Spider II, have also played it through a Peavey XXX. Awesome sound. Don't be fooled by previous reviews; this pickup is neither muddy or shrilly! Maybe it's muddy if you're immature and you keep your gain knob set on 10. Great sound for Pantera/Metallica/BLS/Megadeth, etc. Has wonderful cleans as well, don't let others fool you. Great lead tones as well.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play Heavy Metal, and this pickup is totally suited to just that.

Comments: I could be cleche and say "well if it were stolen I'd go beat the guys ass" etc, but no, if it were stolen I'd just buy another. Well worth the money. I've been playing for 5 years, and I think I've brought myself alot closer to 'my sound'. I was going to get a BL 500XL, but I'm very impatient and couldn't wait the 4 weeks, I do look forward to trying a 500XL in the future, I plan on selling the EMGs in my Jackson and replacing them. As said before, don't take to heart what others say, if you know what you're doing you can pull awesome sounds right out of this baby. However, I do think it is a bit expensive, considering that BL offers his for less, it gets an overall of 8. As soon as my band gets a demo together I'll post the link so you can hear it, its amazing.

Pickup features: Passive Humbucker
Impedence or other specs: i think its something like 16k, its hot for a passive

Model of guitar or bass: Epi SG 400
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: EMG HZ
Other pickups on guitar: Duncan 59
Artists using this pickup: who cares
You musical style(s): Hardcore, Metal
Reason for pickup change: Have you ever played a EMG HZ? Its mushy, not good for tight playing.

Perceived output level: Hotter then the Duncan distortion and thats a hot pickup (Ive had 3 guitars with them)
Tone: Bass and treble, sucked mids heavy metal sound.
Sonic evaluation: Epi SG-400, Monster cable, Line 6 Flextone 3, 2 4x12 cabs.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Im in a hardcore/metal band. I need a pickup thats gonna deliver some good low end but remain clear. It delivers well. This is a bridge pickup, dont put it in the neck.

Comments: Destroyed or stolen, yeah id by it again. Its either this of EMGs and i didnt likt the idea of running my SG off a battery cause thats one more thing to go wrong on you. This pickup gives the actives a run for their money. Ive been playing for about 7 years now and i always seem to have duncans put in all my guitars. Ive owned 3 guitars with Duncan Distortions in them and those were awsome pickups, but i kinda wanted a change so when i bought my sg i figured id check out another pickup from the duncan line. Glad i did, i really like this pickup it delivers what i need. This is a one trick pony though. It does heavy music and thats it, its hot and mean. Id like to caution you on something though. This pickup works extremly well in tuneomatic equipt guitars with mahagony or other similar wood guitars. Ive played this pickup in an alder bodied guitar (Jackson) and hated it cause it was all treble and no grind. so select carefully, Jackson and Ibanez guys may want to look elsewhere but hey its your tone.

Pickup features: Passive blade style humbucker.
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez RGT-3020
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Dimarzio Paf Pro
Other pickups on guitar: Dimarzio Paf Pro
Artists using this pickup: Dime was, Mark Morton
You musical style(s): Death Metal.
Reason for pickup change: I wanted a higher output pickup that gave me a tighter distortion than the Paf provided.

Perceived output level: Medium hot, about as hot as a Duncan JB.
Tone: Piercing highs, make your ears bleed highs, OK mids, warbly lows. When you play leads or play clean this pickup is great. Single notes scream out with great sound. HOWEVER - If you play a chord wth this pickup you wont be able to tell what that chord is. Play a power chord and it sounds like distortion, total shit.This pickup has no Clarity or Definition whatsoever.
Sonic evaluation: I use a Crate BV-120 into a BV-412 and a Genz-Benz G-flex 2x12. I thought it might be the Crate BV stuff so i tried it out on a friends Marshall stack and the same shit tone came out.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Metal. Crowbar, COB, Lamb of God, Caliban, Arch Enemy.

Comments: I am tossing this p.o.s. out in the garbage. Ive been playing for 14 years and i have rarely come across gear that i hate, this is one of those peices. If you want high output get a JB or a Dimarzio Super Distortion. If you want a blade style get a Dimarzio X2N.

Pickup features: Passive Humbucking
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: US Schecter Avenger
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: EMG 81
Other pickups on guitar: none
Artists using this pickup: Me, Others.
You musical style(s): Tech Death, Grindcore
Reason for pickup change: EMG's were too flat sounding, no real life to them.

Perceived output level: Hot
Tone: the mids and bass are balenced well, it has a spike in the highs.
Sonic evaluation: I am using a Randall RG100ES into a Behringer 4x12 with Celestion Century Speakers with a modded metal zone infront of it for more chunk.
This pickup really screams through this set up. I loved my EMG's through this but I always felt I was missing something, Then I bought this and almost died, It has the tone of an 81 but with more of an organic full feel. The EMG's were just too flat and no matter what I did I always sounded like anyone elses using EMG's.
I have found that this pickup really does not like GHS at all, I thought it was the pickup at first but after a switch to DR it was perfect, hugh clear crunch. It also liked D'Addario and SIT strings.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Tech Death like Martyr. It's perfect for this, Nice and clear with alot of articulation. It sounds like a goat fart in the neck.

Comments: I will only use this pickup from now on, It finally turned me away from EMG's.