Description
The Black Winter neck pickup isn’t here to play nice. Seymour Duncan stacked three large ceramic magnets into this passive humbucker to push output and sustain past what a standard single-magnet design can offer, giving extreme metal players the horsepower needed for detuned, high-gain warfare. The custom overwound coils carve out clarity in the mids and highs so your riffs don’t dissolve into mud, while the low end stays reined in and purposeful rather than boomy.
Because it’s voiced for 7-string territory, this neck unit is built to track extended-range low notes cleanly, whether you’re locking into a percussive palm-muted groove, ripping through sweep-picked runs, or launching into a lead that needs to cut. Distortion gets crushing, mids get vicious, and saturation piles on without losing string-to-string separation or touch sensitivity — the notes stay articulate even when the gain is maxed.
Every Black Winter is hand-built in Santa Barbara, CA. This 7-string version ships as a passive mount pickup with naked coils exposed, paired here for the neck position — run it alongside the Black Winter bridge model for a matched set built for total metal onslaught. It comes wired with 4-conductor lead wire, opening up several wiring configuration options, and is vacuum wax potted to eliminate microphonic squeal under heavy gain.
- Passive humbucker with three ceramic magnets for high output and sustain
- Custom overwound coils for clear mids/highs with controlled lows
- Built for 7-string extended-range tunings
- 7-string passive mount, naked coil design
- 4-conductor lead wire for wiring flexibility
- Vacuum wax potted, squeal-free
- Hand made in Santa Barbara, CA
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