Description
The SH-55 is Seymour Duncan’s collaboration with Seth Lover himself, the man who invented the humbucker in the first place — so if you’re chasing the real P.A.F. sound, this is about as close to the source as you can get without a time machine.
- Nickel silver cover and long-legged nickel silver baseplate, just like ’55
- Butyrate plastic bobbins, plain enamel magnet wire, black paper tape, wooden spacer
- Alnico 2 bar magnet for that warm, slightly compressed vintage push
- Left deliberately unpotted, which is why it has that airy, microphonic “honk” old PAFs are famous for
- 4-conductor cable on this listing (single-conductor is the standard vintage-correct wiring, so you get extra switching flexibility here)
This set is voiced for guitars that already lean bright — think maple necks or ebony boards — where the Alnico 2’s softer top end fills things in nicely without turning to mud. It’s happiest paired neck-and-bridge, though plenty of players drop an SH-11 Custom Custom in the bridge for extra bite while keeping this in the neck for cleaner, jazzier work. Keep the gain sane; this isn’t the pickup for stacking a 100-watt tube amp into oblivion, but for blues, country, jazz, and classic rock tones it’s hard to beat.
Joe Perry, Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sheryl Crow, Steve Stevens, Dweezil Zappa, and George Pajon Jr. of the Black Eyed Peas have all leaned on this exact set.
Comes bundled with a free set of Ernie Ball strings so you’re ready to string up and dial in as soon as the wiring’s done.
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