Description
The SSH is Suhr’s take on what a bridge humbucker should do: hit hard enough to shove a tube amp’s front end into breakup, then clean up into something warm and articulate the moment you back off your pick attack. It’s one of two humbuckers (alongside the DSH) that Suhr built around vintage-voiced circuitry, but with the output and midrange push players actually ask for in a bridge position.
Don’t mistake the power here for mud. The Alnico V magnet keeps the attack defined, so single-note runs and chord work both stay legible even when you’re driving the amp hard. Backed off, there’s an open, vintage character underneath the aggression — the kind of dual personality that makes a bridge pickup genuinely versatile rather than a one-trick gain machine.
Suhr builds these with 4-conductor hookup wire, giving you the flexibility to wire in coil-splitting or series/parallel switching if your build calls for it. This particular version comes in a black cover with 50mm pole spacing, matching standard Gibson-style humbucker routing.
- Magnet: Alnico V
- DC Resistance: 12.8 kOhm (bridge)
- Hook Up Wire: 4-Conductor
- Cover: Black
Suhr Guitars has been hand-building instruments and pickups since 1997 under John Suhr and Steve Smith, with a client list running from Scott Henderson and Guthrie Govan to Kirk Fletcher — players who each demand something different from their tone, and each land on Suhr anyway. ProAudioLand was named Suhr’s 2015 Electronics Dealer of the Year.
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