Description
Most neck humbuckers start to lose definition once you’re down on the low string of an 8-string, but the SH-6N Distortion neck pickup was engineered specifically to avoid that. It’s the neck counterpart to Seymour Duncan’s high-output Distortion bridge model, built with the same ceramic bar magnet driving power so both pickups share a matched, aggressive character across the whole range.
Despite being the hottest neck humbucker in the Duncan lineup, the Distortion neck doesn’t sacrifice clarity. Leads stay fluid and vocal even when you’re pushing serious gain, and back off the volume knob and it opens up into surprisingly bell-like clean tones – useful territory for anyone jumping between rhythm chug and expressive solo work on an extended-range instrument.
Construction is straightforward, road-ready Duncan: a nickel silver bottom plate, 4-conductor lead wire so you can wire it up however your setup calls for (series, parallel, split coil, whatever you’re into), and full vacuum wax potting to shut down microphonic squeal at high volume. Every unit is hand-built at the Santa Barbara, CA factory.
This listing is the black-covered version in a passive mount, meaning it drops straight into any 8-string with standard humbucker routing – no extra carving required.
- Ceramic bar magnet for high output
- Neck-position voicing built to pair with the Distortion 8-String bridge model
- 4-conductor lead wire for flexible wiring options
- Vacuum wax potted to resist feedback squeal
- Black cover, passive mount, standard routing compatible
- Hand built in Santa Barbara, CA
Run it alongside the Distortion bridge model for a cohesive, high-output 8-string setup front to back.
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