Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup Bridge

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

it a grate pick up, good crunch a nice kick for fast riffing,i installed it in my ESP m-100FM guitar never sounded so good. :D \m/

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

when i got my les paul black beauty, the pickups were like, 57 classics er something. they sucked. even with this fender amp i had. i thought maybe it was the amp, so i bought a randall half and it still sounded too light. so i invested in these and now my floor shakes in D-tuneing. the seymore duncan sh-8 is what you need. they have so much out put that if you have a practice amp, and played these pickups through it, it would probly start smokeing and catch on fire. get them

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

This pickup is loved and hated for the same reason: DISTORTION!!! If you're into a clean sound you will not like this pickup since it overdrives an amp's clean channel. Its sound is imposing; it is not subtle and not for the timid. But if you're into distortion, read on.

I installed a bridge Invader into the bridge position of "Stunt Guitar", an HH Strat with the modern non-locking tremolo. It's output is nearly twice that of the factory pickup. This pickup is perfectly suited for Stunt Guitar, whose primary purpose is face-melting improvisational dive-bombing feedback solos.

It's designed for modern styles that require loads of crunch, and in that aspect is quite versatile when used in conjunction with the tone control. Any sound from 70s era King Crimson to Blink 182 is possible using only guitar and amp - the Pedalboard of Doom has five distortion pedals ranging from mild to extreme, though I rarely use them with this guitar.

Surprisingly, when the Invader is used with the neck pickup and the tone controls are set fully opposite of each other, Stunt Guitar nails Randy Rhodes' Crazy Train tone - pleasantly nasal, mid-rangey without the clucky sound which is characteristic of using both pickups together.

I'm tempted to find a neck Invader (the impedance and resonant frequencies are different than the bridge model) to see how much more lethal Stunt Guitar can become. As befitting of its output, the Invader gets a six-star rating from me.

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

To All the Musicians that gave it below a 4 because of

a) Hiss or

b) bassy tonality.

The hiss means your guitar is not properly grounded, specifically if it happens while you are playing it with no distortion, go get that fixed and do not blame the pick-up, also it could mean that whoever put the pick-ups in did not do it the right way.

The bassy tonality or (Too much distortion) means you have your guitar volume blasting at 10 lol this pick up is HEAVY you need to volume down to 9 or 8 for perfect sound/tone and you will get more attack than 99% of the pick ups out there;

Depending on the volume of your guitar this pick-up changes tonality, it is EXTREMELY flexible and can be used anywhere from metal to punk to pop or pop-punk, which is really amazing due to its flexibility. Not to mention Acoustically this pick-ups can give you an extreme amount of beautiful tone

Another tip, these pick ups work best on the bridge section!

I owned 3 different pick-ups in my life and this has been the quietest , the heaviest, the poppiest and overall the best sounding.

my rig =>> Mexican Fender Strat with Invader Humbuckers(bridge) and 2 single coils and a Mesa Tripple Rectifer + 4x12 Mesa Cab

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

I bought a set of these for my ESP Horizon, which was used and came with a 5 way switch and 2 EMH H1 style pickups. The EMG pickups were very weak and only sounded slightly distorted with the distortion on full blast. Although I later found out the previous owner miswired the EMG pickups to the non original 5 way switch after selling them, I was happy I got the Duncan Invaders all the same. They SCREAM with distortion, great rhythm and lead tones. The clean tones were lacking a bit on one pickup by itself, but here's the kicker: the 5 way switch is for coil splitting, and these pickups actually have a nice clean tone with the coils split. The tone using the inner coil on each pickup was nice and sparkly, and bridge full and neck split also had more high end sparkle than just one pickup on full by itself. The neck pickup is a little noisier than the bridge pickup, not sure why that is. Although I miswired them when I first got them, rewiring them properly fixed that problem. If you're into metal, get these. If you also want to do some clean stuff for some more rock oriented stuff but also do some metal, get a 5 way switch or some other way of coil splitting and that will solve the problem with the sparkle lacking clean tone. In addition to the sounds I got out of them, these pickups are well constructed here in the US, California to be exact. I'd recommend this for metalheads and rockers alike.

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I placed this pickup in a 1983 Gibson Corvus. Yes, I know lots of people hate these but I don't care. Anyways, The factory pickups were beyond weak and didn't have any harmonics to them. Weak crunch and very little bass..

Well the Invader solved all that! The low end is huge and I didn't have any problem cutting over my hard hitting drummer. Nails that grindcore sound and I would say this pickup is super aggressive. In fact, I had to dial back the low end and gain on my amp. The Gibson Corvus is alder bodied and it works in it, but for mahogany, it maybe a bit to much unless it's a thinner body like an SG or something similar.

I have been playing since the mid '90s and have played several pickups. This is probably the hottest thing I've jammed on. Playing clean tones are a let down though. I reccomend you putting in a warm sounding neck pickup and using it during clean moments. The Invader is NOT a pickup that you buy for clean tones!!

I did swap out for the Duncan Distortion because I have a little more versatility with it.

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I put this in a Dean ZX with a Duncan AlnicoII pro neck pu (both volume pots have a treble-bleed circuit too), and I'm convinced this is the pickup that was meant for basswood guitars. Run into a Fender hybrid amp, it beefs up the bottom on this bright guitar, and gets a nice hot-Tele bridge pu sound when split. I like this pu clean as well as dirty, but it does take some EQ twiddling for best sound. Once you do though, you'll get gnarly harmonics, killer thump and a lot more cruncy mids than I ever thought I'd like. Brighter pu's may be better for warmer/darker-sounding guitars, but for a bolt-on I think this one rules. Head-turning tone >:-)

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

This pickup crushes. Works best for hard hard overdriven rock or great for METAL! I like the clean sound with a little delay, but alone can sound kinda flat with a touch too much of treble, but sounds good witha decent neck pickup (Air Norton in mine). Overall, heavy pickup and super easy to install.

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

i got this in like october and just decided to put it into MY guitar. I was gonna save it but just decided to hell with it and put it in my guitar. It sounds so brutal. Makes alot more distortion and the clean is kinda muddy but i have 2 single coils for that. In all. ITs an AMAZING pickup. id get it if ur in2 pure metal brutality.

Comments about Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader Pickup:

Whether or not you like this pickup depends on what you're into. If you want a serious heavy metal pickup with crazy amount of output, then you'll like this. If you like to play clean once in a while (and most people do), you'll hate yourself for buying it. The clean tone is trebly, shrill, and IMHO useless. I put one of those in my 91 Gibson Les Paul and thought it was the baddest pickup on earth. Playing clean was really disappointing, however. So useless that I took it out and replaced it with one of those Duncan PAF replicas, which had almost as much gain and lots more tone. I'll admit it's the loudest passive PU I've ever heard, but once you back off the gain a bit you really hear its shortcomings. Again, if you never play clean and all you want is total overdrive meltdown, then you'll probably like this.