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Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan Black Winter Humbucker Pickup - Set

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  • High Output Humbucking Pickups Designed f Hardce Playing Styles - Black

Description

The Black Winter is as dark and vicious as the winters in Scandinavia with excessive grime and aggression; the right balance of midst, treble and bass to instantly take you from annihilating riffs to solos with cutting articulation. The Black Winter fills the needs of extreme metal guitarists with a tone that provides crushing distortion, punishing midst and lots of aggressive saturation and string sensitivity. Neck and bridge pickups are calibrated for a balanced assault. Hand built in Santa Barbara, CA, we offer the Black Winter in standard 6-string size, as well as 7 & 8 string passive mount with naked coils (or in Active 'Soap bar' Mount with exposed pole pieces). Comes with 4-conductor lead wire for multiple wiring options, and is vacuum wax potted for squeal free operation.

Brand: Seymour Duncan


Size: Kit


Color: Black


Item dimensions L x W x H: 6.2 x 4.45 x 1.45 inches


Top Material Type: Basswood


Back Material Type: Basswood


String Material Type: Nickel


Finish Type: Powder Coated


Instrument: Guitar


Item Weight: 13.28 ounces


Item Weight: 13.3 ounces


Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 4.45 x 1.45 inches


Item model number: Black Winter Set 6 string


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: July 10, 2013


Back Material: Basswood


Body Material: Basswood


Color Name: Black


Connector Type: 6.35mm Jack


String Material: Nickel


Top Material: Basswood


Number of Strings: 6


Material Type: Synthetic


Size: Kit


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    • Awesome for metalcore, chose em over EMG
Size: Kit
I'd take these over actives any day. I love EMGs but these sound almost as clean, and I enjoy them better.
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2025 by Scott pruitt
    • This is a High Output Extreme Metal Pickup with lots of clarity
Size: Kit
I play a lot of Extreme Metal subgenres and these things are perfect for all things Extreme Metal. The coil split tone is very unique and different from a lot of the traditional medium & high output pickups. I can get a very strange clean guitar similar to something like the clean tone like Pantera's Floods, or even Death's Lack of Comprehension. If you're into the Animals as Leaders overdriven "thumping" tone, you can achieve a great unique version of those type of tones. Seymour Duncan initially made these pickups for more Black Metal sounds than anything else and it shows, there's a lot of clarity despite high gain tones. I actually played a friend's 8 string guitar with the Black Winter installed and I could hear each of the individual 8 string's note, you can play wide open chords and hear it vividly even with a scooped mid tone. The neck is surprisingly very versatile, I'm not entirely sure where it lies on the output range but it seems to be more of medium output from what I can audibly tell. My only complaint is the bridge pickup is not versatile but then again, what do you expect from an Extreme Metal pickup geared towards Black Metal tones. You're not gonna get any Jazz or Blues tones from the bridge although the neck will be able to. If you play Extreme Metal, get this pickup, you will not regret it. If you play anything outside of Extreme Metal, I would recommend doing a lot of research or even playing a guitar with it installed. If you're looking for something versatile for an all-around guitar, you'll be happy with the neck, you will not be happy with the bridge. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2024 by Tascam Portastudio
    • Raw and rough, absurdly high output
Size: Kit
As you'd expect, when the packaging looks menacing and these are called "Black Winters" you know you're in for a treat. I had these put in an Ibanez RG that has a HSH pick-up config, for the nerds out there I put a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder in the middle, although I may change it for a hot rail, I digress. With these being very high output, you can get some pretty gnarly tones at mid gain, and some brutal sounds with even higher gain. Very cold sounding bridge pickup but a thick and sludgey neck pickup, can very easily cut well through a mix. Pick-ups specifically for black metal, what would you expect? Very good, just hard to control the tone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022 by thomas vaught
    • Amazing pickup
Size: Kit
Clear rich warm fat and powerful as hell. And you know what else? Coil split it. It has an amazing spanky single coil sound as well. Put them in an all-mahogany Gibson V with CTS push-pull pots for the coil split and it is an amazing and versatile machine. Clean with the tone rolled back a little is very sweet. I tend to overuse the bridge pickup but with these every combination sounds good, and some very different sounds are possible. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021 by redx
    • NOT JUST A METAL PICKUP
Size: Kit
I threw these in a Gibson SG and they sound great. I like to shred a bit and play heavy but I also like to play Rock N Roll. These pickups covered both arenas. They can even do some Blues. They are hot, thick, and have plenty of clarity. But what was so surprising was how rich they are. They actually have monstrous tone. Yet they retain all the clarity and bite you need for metal. When you roll these off they clean up reasonably well too. New they could do the heavy stuff but was shocked at everything else they could do. Oh, 1 last thing, amazing lead tones in the neck and bridge. Good stuff. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019 by CWD
    • One of the best pickups money can buy
Size: Kit
Review Image by Amazon Customer Amazon Customer
The Seymour Duncan black winter is one of the best pickups you can buy. I personally put it on my Jackson Dinky js22 DKA, and the sound differences from the Jackson to the black winter is amazing. The pickups sound amazing in anyway you play them. Strangely enough they sound even better in clean tone. Installing them isn’t hard, and even I who am a novice in soldering was able to solder them onto my guitar. I would recommend check Seymour website for specifications for wiring. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2020 by Amazon Customer Amazon Customer
    • Extreme Metal and Black Metal Fans Rejoice!
Size: Kit
I love these pickups. I ordered the set, which arrived in good time, properly packaged and sealed. I do wish that we could have the option of having the choice between the Trembucker version for the Bridge position, though. I could have used it for the guitar I put it in, my 2010 Ibanez JEM 7VWH. These pickups accentuate the blazing fast attack and riffage of Extreme Metal very well. I still love my EMG equipped Gibson Les Paul (81 regular in Bridge/81X Series in Neck), but these Black Winters really opened up the tonal spectrum on my JEM. Such a great sounding set of pickups. These seem to be best suited for Extreme Metal not Nu-Metal or anything like that. Bands like Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Soilwork, Superjoint Ritual and Immortal would represent the kind of music that these pickups work best for. Take the dive and get a set now! They completely blow Bareknuckle Pickups out of the water. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2013 by Holly Meyer
    • Disappointing
Size: Kit
The bridge worked great. the neck pickup ohmed out correctly at 12+ ohms but was low volume and noisy. Too late to return the set and no response from seller. sad
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024 by Ken Moore

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