LOL Review of SD Blackouts

[006]

This was submitted by a customer on musiciansfriend.com for the Seymour Duncan Blackout set:

These pickups are 100% HORRIBLE! I picked up a pair after seeing that Alexi (You all know who I'm talking about) had switched from EMG to the Duncan Blackout. After putting them in my ESP and giving them a brand new 9v, I played for a little while. I liked them at first, but then I really started to pay attention to the tone. THEY HUM LIKE CRAZY!!! Dont listen to the people saying that they dont hum, because they're worse than EMG... also, their bass and mid levels are WAY too high. When you play metal, you dont need mids at all!!! These crappy pickups might be good for jazz, but thats it.

Apparently you don't need mids at all when you play metal.





~006

 

[Jaymz]

Thats one of those typical bellends that you find when you sqrawl through a few pages of reviews on harmony central/musciansfriend etc. Dear me....there is always somebody that makes you piss yourself with their "review"

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Ironically last night I installed a blackout into my new 7 string schecter. I had to disable the neck pickup. I'll just say that this pickup kicks ass.

 

[006]

Care to elaborate on why you disabled the neck pup? Also, what did you have in the guitar before you installed the Blackouts?

~006

 

[J the TyranT]

I also like that he switched JUST because Alexi [you know who] is playing them. Fuckin knob

 

[Jaymz]

I bet he installed them himself in his Stagg or however else he pronounces ESP and bodged it up completely.

 

[kev]

i hate bastards

 

[006]

I want to get a new guitar specifically to use for heavy stuff... I know a lot of people here don't like them (don't flame me too hard) but I've been looking at an Ibanez RG with a mahogany body, hardtail bridge and two hum setup. I really want to put some Blackouts in it. I'm just really curious.

~006

 

[Melodeath]

I'm looking very hard at the Schecter ATX Blackjack FR

 

[Metaltastic]

I want to get a new guitar specifically to use for heavy stuff... I know a lot of people here don't like them (don't flame me too hard) but I've been looking at an Ibanez RG with a mahogany body, hardtail bridge and two hum setup. I really want to put some Blackouts in it. I'm just really curious.

~006

Hey man, mahogany is mahogany, and I love the RG shape! (I own two, after all ) However, the only thing that gives me pause about those is the stupid goddamn hardtail bridge - having to twist two tiny allen screws to change the height of EACH FUCKING INDIVIDUAL SADDLE, arrrgghhh, no thank you. Tune-o-matic (or anything with just two screws for bridge height) to the rescue.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I love that he's "EMG4eva"

LIKE 4 EVA ROFL.

All skid no mid.

These pickups are okie dokie in my book.

 

[006]

Well Marcus, Ibanez doesn't feel the same as you and I do about TOM bridges, so I have to settle for a hardtail... but, it's no biggie, IMO. Still better than a floating trem so I'm willing to make a little bit of a sacrifice. Lately, though, with most of the reviews of the Blackouts saying "they have incredible low end, you'll have to turn the bass on your amp down" has got me thinking maybe I could get away with a basswood bodied RG. I'm not a fan of basswood, for the general lack of body and low-end, but if the Blackouts have an emphasized low-end response then they may be the ticket to getting a full balanced sound from that wood. If it does, in fact, work out like that then my options for an RG have just opened up from an RG321MH to one of these sexy ass RG2EX1s:

The RG321MH, although extremely cheap ($279 new) is apparently one hell of a guitar once you swap the pickups out, according to a shit-ton of Ibanez addicts.

I like it because it's mahogany, simple and has an oil finish, which I've got to admit I've always liked an oiled mahogany body - just sexy. However, that white with black binding is definitely pimp looking. Especially after I would stain the fretboard to look like ebony.. FUCK!

~006

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I think that oiled Mahogany would be better especially after the pickup switch, those pickups are obvious bullshit. That white guitar does look pimp, but I think basswood is utter rubbish. Apart from those old school Petrucci models, every Ibanez made from the spawn of basswood has been shize.

 

[Metaltastic]

Haha, my former suitemate/co-guitarist/old 5150 combo purchaser at school has the white one, which he stuck a D-Activator into - sounds pretty good, and honestly, I've never really minded basswood when I've heard it; also, my former roommate owns a Basswood Wolfgang (he's in my top 4 on myspace), and I've always loved the "pop" that guitar has, sounds fantastic with an 85 in the bridge. Mike, I won't deny they look great, but I think I'd go for the natural Schecter 006 (the ONLY Schecter I like) if I were in your shoes.

 

[Gaspard]

I'm buying an ibanez paul gilbert model in about four days...

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

That is pretty funny.

Want to hear something funnier??

I loaned my 5150 to a friend and it shows back up with the fallowing settings:

Bass: 9
Mids: ALL THE WAY DOWN
Highs: Dimed
Presence: Dimed
Resonance: all the way down

Needless to say I doubt anyone heard what he was doing at the show.

 

[Amberience]

I also like that he switched JUST because Alexi [you know who] is playing them. Fuckin knob

Alexi Sayle plays guitar???

 

[AdamWathan]

That is pretty funny.

Want to hear something funnier??

I loaned my 5150 to a friend and it shows back up with the fallowing settings:

Bass: 9
Mids: ALL THE WAY DOWN
Highs: Dimed
Presence: Dimed
Resonance: all the way down

Needless to say I doubt anyone heard what he was doing at the show.

I dunno, a 5150 with the mids on 0 is still like any other amp with the mids on 45 5150s seem to cut through no matter what.

 

[Metaltastic]

I dunno, a 5150 with the mids on 0 is still like any other amp with the mids on 45 5150s seem to cut through no matter what.

Yeah, but the presence knob at max is the ULTIMATE suck tool

 

[brainimpalement]

See, it's people like that reviewer who make me wish I played drums.
That's the kind of rep we end up with.

That said, I can't EQ for shit so I am guilty of having backed off the mids occasionally :-(