Seymour Duncan AN1405 Humbucker Antiquity HB microphone for electric guitar silver

nickel. pre age et relic. amazing tone

Esta antiquity le saca todo el jugo al Overdrive natural del amplificador, al empujar las válvulas logra un sonido crujiente,cálido, muy vintage. Me fascina el cuidado al detalle de Seymour Duncan, desde una pastilla de calidad perfectamente envejecida, hasta un empaquetado muy detallado

I have a set of these in a Japanese-made Epiphone Elite Les Paul with CTS pots, paper-in-oil caps and lightweight tailpiece. With this setup, the pickups have a punchy, responsive tone that is warm and aggressive at the same time and very vintage sounding with lots of texture. They are slightly "dirty" sounding. There's a bit of built-in graininess that gives them beautiful complexity with overdrive. They seem to have a somewhat clipped attack with lots of natural bloom and gentle decay thereafter which makes them sing like nobody's business. They are very responsive to picking nuances and fretting hand pressure which makes them a great choice for a "feel" player. They will not push an amp as hard as a modern-design humbucker but that's what gives these their unique feel. Even so, they'll work for heavy styles of music through hard rock. Not the best choice for metal...unless we're talking about Led Zeppelin! ;-) They also look cool with their aged covers and polepiece screws. I've tried Alnico II Pros, '59 Models, Seth Lovers, and Joe Bonamassa Skinner Bursts, all from Seymour Duncan and I prefer the Antiquities to all of them.

Excellent sounding pickups!! I build custom Les Pauls using stripped Gibson bodies, I just finished a 2015 cherry red LPM using these with 525k pots and orange drop caps. I'm using a real Bigsby and D'Addario NYXL 10's running through a Madison Divinity II amplifier and the sound is tremendous, my hats off to Seymour Duncan for this pickup, since it's not wax potted you can expect some feedback at high over drive but you really can't beat the vintage look or sound of this amazing pickup. If it's pure vintage tone you want drop a set of these in your guitar and you won't believe your ears. So far this beats out even my 59 VOS for sound quality and tone, just remember that if you are putting them into an epiphone get a good set of pots and caps.

I really like the air/dirt combination this pickup provides! Tone is so hard to put into words, but this one gives me the range from sweet, soft cleans, to pleasing mid-dirt chime, to full on rock. It does have an "air" about it, like the pickup is breathing. (of course that sounds weird, but we're all guitar players here, you know what I mean) It's a quality I've not heard in many pickups, and I've been playing for more than a few decades.