The only bad one I've tried in the normally superb Duncan range. 1 star, crap! Get a JB. NOW ! Once upon a time (Long, long ago.....) I bought an Ibanez RG, but quickly became dissatisfied with the nasal sounding pickups and wanted something with a little more oomph, so, reading the catalogue I thought this was the one..........Awful , fizzy with no definition and a lack of bite and clarity. High output is it's only plus point. Thankfully, Duncan have an exchange policy and I was able to swap it for a Duncan Custom. Ahh, clarity and crunch ! If you are a (just and only) lead player seeking the last word in output and sustain, give it a go, but even then I'd take a DiMarzio Super Distortion as it has a thick, but toneful sound. If you're after the sound described in the manufacturers description, the JB is the t*ts, as it begs to be thrashed and screams more and more the more you wind up the gain.

I played my last two gigs at the same venue in a pretty fast punk band called One Day To Live - ( www.onedaytolive.com (sorry for the plug!)). <br/> <br/>The first gig was with a Digitech pedal and a Dimarzio air norton humbucker. My guitar was inaudiable past the bass and drums, and no decent volume could be applied without getting feedback. <br/> <br/>Same venue + backline for the second gig, this time with a boss hyper metal pedal and this humbucker - the SH6. The sound was exceptionally clear, especially for lead work, palm muted rhythm slightly less so. Loud volume was possible with no feedback. <br/> <br/>Overall the SH6 is one of the best humbuckers I've tried, but i'm still searching for something that produces the right balance of tone, lead and rhythm for fast punk playing. That might be a hand transplant ;o) <br/> <br/>

Like Marty at the bottom, I had one of these fitted into an Epiphone Les Paul Std. Although I didn&#146;t try it out, I didn&#146;t think I&#146;d go wrong, so I brought it and had it fitted at my local shop. <br/> <br/>The distortion for me is powerful, but tight and focused at the same time. The gain from 6-10 sounds pretty much the same except on palm mutes, I noticed my EQ became a little more responsive so it enabled more of a tweak to the tone. <br/> <br/>I was also considering a JB (SH-4). I can&#146;t say which is better but I&#146;ll tell you this is one sh*t hot pick-up.

I bought this to fit into my '89 SG Studio to replace the stock bridge pickup - and was slightly dissappointed. The crunh and ultra high gain sounds were clear through my Marshall TSL but the output was nowhere near as loud and defined as the DiMarzio Super Distortion I fitted into my ESP Custom Shop Strat. Altogether I'd buy the DiMarzio for any Pickup I'd replace in the future.

I bought this pickups to be fitted into my Epiphone Les Paul and wow,what a difference it made. The stock Epiphone pickups are preety weedy for heavy distortion but now my Epiphone sounds really good. This pickup cetainly squeezes as much distortion out of any thing as it can so I wouldn't recomment it for any Tom Morello sound-alikes, it sound really good for punk, nu metal, grunge or just plain rock, and even some heavy metal. It's preety sensitive picking up loud harmonics and even some two hand tapping is preety loud. On the clean side the pickup doesn't sound very good, muddy and thick, but if you a Jazz hubucker in the neck and flip to the middle position you get a beautiful sound remonicent of a slightly fatter telecaster. On the whole this pickup is amazing for what it's designed for, raw hard rock, probably not for the extreme metallers or the indie crowd but definatly worth it for the punk, nu metal, hard-rocks out there.