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Seymour Duncan Black Winter - Bridge - Trembucker - Red/Black Zebra

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Color: Black, 4c Shielded


Size: Kit


Features

  • The Black Winter pickup is a savagely high-output passive humbucker built for extreme metal, with no less than three large ceramic magnets to ensure maximum output and sustain in all high-gain situations. The custom overwound coil design delivers incredible clarity in the mids and highs, while the low end stays controlled and focused. The Black Winter is designed to handle any tuning, no matter how low you go, and its voicing facilitates aggressive palm mutes, fluid sweep picking, and punishing lead tones.
  • Crushing distortion, vicious mids, and aggressive saturation are at your fingertips, without sacrificing string-to-string separation or sensitivity. Pair the bridge Black Winter with the Black Winter neck model for maximum metal onslaught.
  • We offer the Black Winter for 6-string in standard humbucker and Trembucker sizes, as well as 7- and 8-string string passive mount (with naked coils... brrr!). The Black Winter high-output passive humbucker ships with 4-conductor lead wire for multiple wiring options, and is vacuum wax potted for squeal-free operation.
  • Handmade in Santa Barbara, California: Seymour Duncan takes pride in designing and crafting our products to create the most amazing sound possible. That starts with providing an environment that attracts and retains our great team of engineers, product designers and craftsmen, many of whom have been with the company for decades.
  • DCR Neck: 13, DCR Bridge: 16.6, Magnet: Ceramic, 4c Shielded Cable

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.

Color: Black, 4c Shielded


Brand: Seymour Duncan


Material: Synthetic


Model Name: Humbucker


Item dimensions L x W x H: 6.25 x 4.5 x 1.5 inches


Brand Name: Seymour Duncan


Model Name: Humbucker


Model Number: Black Winter Set 6 string


Included Components: Pickups^Mounting Hardware^Wiring Instructions


Unit Count: 1 Count


Manufacturer: Seymour Duncan


UPC: 800315039654


Item Highlight: Savage ceramic output delivers crushing lows, cutting mids and relentless high-gain clarity. Made for Extreme Metal.


Global Trade Identification Number: 54


Number of Items: 2


Set Name: Black Winter


Item Type Name: Pickups


Part Number: ESD SH-BWSET


Warranty Description: For warranty information about this product, please click here.


Color: Black, 4c Shielded


Finish Type: Powder Coated


Sound Profile: Heavy Mid and Low Frequencies with High Distortion


Material: Synthetic


Body Material: Bass Wood


Item Dimensions: 6.25 x 4.5 x 1.5 inches


Item Weight: 12.8 ounces


Connector Type: 6.35mm Jack


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Top Amazon Reviews


  • Raw and rough, absurdly high output
Color: Black 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

  • Awesome for metalcore, chose em over EMG
Color: Black 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

  • Amazing pickup
Color: Black 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

  • One of the best pickups money can buy
Color: Black Size: Kit
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

  • You may as well buy enough to put these in all your guitars.
Color: Black Size: Kit
These are some of my favorite pickups of all time. I have a variety of guitars, each with non-stock pickups. Everything from custom MJ-wound '59's to multiple Bare Knuckle offerings, to Lundgrens. The Black Winters, while designed specifically for the Black Metal crowd, do everything really well. I can go from brutal doomy chugs to beautiful post-rock ambience, to driven bluesy warmth, and to pristine cleans with an OD pedal and my volume knob. I've never put the same set of pups in multiple guitars until these and I had to force myself to not put them in a third guitar purely for variety's sake. My guitarist played my 7-string with BW's in it and immediately ordered himself a pair. In other words, yes, you want these. Yes, you will be happy with your choice. These are possibly the best pickups out there right now. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016 by Matt Johnson

  • This is a High Output Extreme Metal Pickup with lots of clarity
Color: Black 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

  • Not match the description
Color: Black Size: Kit
not the color or quality I expected
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2025 by jesse bryan gomez

  • Extreme Metal and Black Metal Fans Rejoice!
Color: Black 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

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