Seymour Duncan Trembucker TB-6 BK

Si eres un amante de la alta ganancia, y tu guitarra tiene un puente tipo tremolo o locking, no lo dudes... Esta es el remplazo ideal para tu hacha.

Con una ganancia apabullante, no pierdes el control de las cosas conservando unos grabes apretados y definidos, ademas de agudos afilados y cortantes sin llegar a ser molestos. Los palm mute parecen estar hechos con un martillo neumatico y tu cuerda de E grabe, no se perdera nunca mas en las toneladas de distorsion manejadas por los usuarios a los que va dirigida este microfono.

No se equivoquen, no solo es distorsion lo que mana de esta pastilla. Pues tambien es capaz de grades sonidos limpios gracias a su configuracion de 4 conductores y la posibilidad de conectarse en diversos modos, sigle coil, serie, paralelo...

An elegant alternative to, say, the classic Di Marzio super distortion, which I consider the standard under which this type of pickups should measure. Has the growl while retains clarity, increasing in most cases sustain and character of guitars (please note that I have this pup installed in 7 different guitars). Particularly effective in Mahogany and Basswood, in where its adds notable harmonic contents as well as a tight bass definition. Highs are intense and sharp, not being annoyingly brittle. If you are after muscle and bite, this is the way to go. Cons? Well, each aftermarket pickup manufacturer uses their own color coding for connections, and Seymour Duncan is no exception to that sad, sad rule. Just make sure that you checked the Seymour Duncan website and study in depth the suggested schemes for your guitar and intended purpose (there?s a handful of schemes there) and you?ll be good to go. Is very difficult to be more precise than this while reviewing an afermarket pickup, mind you, since the myriad of factors that construct the sound (tone?) for an electric guitar prevents otherwise. Hopefully you?ll find your sound, but be aware by selecting this one is a true classic, hence a resonably sure shot. Rock on!

Buscaba una pastilla potente pero equilibrada, que no perdiese distorsion ni melodia, algo asi entre una JB por el tono,y una dimebucker o Blackout2 por la potencia, y encontre esta pastilla, y jamas me he arrepentido. Toco temas tipo Megadeth, Ozzy, Children of bodom.. y esta pastilla me brinda la potencia y a la vez la melodia que buscaba, y es una gozada con un par de toneladas de distorsion encima

BACKGROUND

I ordered this pickup in a framework of my Fender MIM HSS FR `95 upgrade project. The original bridge humbucker was seriously lacking mid highs and highs to the point, that artificial harmonics were barely audible, especially on the lower volume settings, also I wanted a pro sound.

TECH THINGS

Many fellow guitarists still have no clue, what's the difference between a humbucker and a trembucker. It's a distance between magnet pole pieces that differs. A trembucker was designed to fit string spacing that is standard on guitars equipped with Floyd Rose or other tremolo bridge(52.6mm between 1st and 6th strings vs. 49mm between 1st and 6th strings on guitars with fixed bridge), hence the name - trem(olo)(hum)bucker. If I were not to read the manuals, I'd ended up with a humbucker with slightly misplaced pole pieces in relation to strings. The trembucker piece itself is also slightly bigger (~3 mm) than a humbucker and hardly fits through my guitar's pickguard, so I ended up cutting custom pickguard with a bigger hole for the pickup.

SOUND

I used 2 of 4 available wiring options and wired the trembucker to act 1 - coils as series, 2 - coil split. Coil split sound resembles any other single pickup sound, bright, usable for clean, but still quite powerful with the use of overdriven channel. As I was looking for the 80's heavy metal and thrash metal sound, the series option was much more interesting to me. I switched to it immediately and plugged into heavy overdrive amp simulations stack on my pc. The sound was just a WOW!!! Singing high strings, solid crunch on bottoms and a wall of sparking harmonics if you hit a chord on higher strings! The crunch has it's very own character, distinguishable from other pickups and exactly the one I was looking for, since I've heard it on the albums of the likes of WASP, MEGADETH, etc. Sound is very, very RICH and living it's own life. When you hit a note it seems at least 3 guitars are playing at once. Also the trembucker does a slight wah and reverb effect itself. I think that's because one coil gets very slightly delayed in relation to the other, when wired in series. I'm happy with the sound 1000%, the sound is alive, not dead or sterile as on many modern records and that was exactly my requirements.

PROS

RICH, ALIVE sound! Each string sounds defined and not blurred even with heavy overdrive(which is a problem with bottom strings sound on some pickups of competition). 10x better sound than that of mid price range guitars stock pickups(any "designed by.." pickup). If you own such a guitar, stop wasting your time and switch to pro pickups immediately. You will be very surprised in a good way!

CONS

Well not any really. Maybe some back noise with heavy distortion, but well if I wanted no noise I'd bought an active pickup, now I use noise gate. Also, if you don't like "wah" and "sparky" character to the sound and prefer something sterile and dead, this pickup is definitely not for you.

CONCLUSION

If you like the sound of 80`s, 90`s metal, go for this bridge pickup BACKGROUND

I ordered this pickup in the framework of my Fender MIM HSS FR `95 upgrade project. The original bridge humbucker was seriously lacking mid highs and highs to the point, that artificial harmonics were barely audible, especially on the lower volume settings.

TECH THINGS

Many fellow guitarists still have no clue, what's the difference between a humbucker and a trembucker. It's a distance between magnet pole pieces that differs. Trembucker was designed to fit the string spacing that is standard on guitars equipped with Floyd Rose or other tremolo bridge(52.6mm between 1st and 6th strings vs. 49mm between 1st and 6th strings on guitars with fixed bridge), hence the name - trem(olo)(hum)bucker. If I were not to read the manuals, I'd ended up with a humbucker with slightly misplaced pole pieces in relation to strings. The trembucker piece itself is also slightly bigger (~3 mm) than a humbucker and hardly fits through my guitar's pickguard, so I ended up cutting custom pickguard with a bigger hole for the pickup.

SOUND

I used 2 of 4 available wiring options and wired the trembucker to act 1 - coils as series, 2 - coil split. Coil split sound resembles any other single pickup sound, bright, usable for clean, but still quite powerful with the use of overdriven channel. As I were looking for the 80's heavy metal and thrash metal sound, the series option is much more interesting to me, so I switched to it immediately and plugged into heavy overdrive amp simulations stack on my pc. The sound was just a WOW!!! Singing high strings, solid crunch on bottoms and a wall of sparking harmonics if you hit a chord on higher strings! The crunch has it's very own character, distinguishable from other pickups and exactly the one I was looking for, since I've heard it on the albums of the likes of WASP, MEGADETH, etc. Sound is very, very RICH and living it's own life. When you hit a note it seems at least 3 guitars are playing at once. Also the trembucker does a slight wah and reverb effect itself. I think that's because one coil gets very slightly delayed in relation to the other, when wired in series. I'm happy with the sound 1000%, the sound is alive, not dead or sterile as on many modern records and that was exactly my requirements.

PROS

RICH, ALIVE sound! Each string sounds defined and not blurred even with heavy overdrive(which is a problem with bottom strings sound on some pickups of competition). 10x better sound than that of mid price range guitars stock pickups(any "designed by.." pickup). If you own such a guitar, stop wasting your time and switch to pro pickups immediately. You will be very surprised in a good way!

CONS

Well not any really. Maybe some back noise with heavy distortion, but well if I wanted no noise I'd bought an active pickup, now I use noise gate. Also, if you don't like "wah" and "sparky" character to the sound and prefer something sterile and dead, this pickup is definitely not for you.

CONCLUSION

If you like the sound of 80`s, 90`s metal, go for this bridge pickup immediately!!