All user reviews of 5/5 for the Seymour Duncan APH-1N Alnico II Pro HB Neck

Firstly, some specs I was able to dig up:

Impedence -
Neck: 7.6 k
Bridge: 7.85 k
Resonant peak -
Neck: 7.1 KHz
Bridge: 6.7 KHz
Magnet type -
Alnico II Bar
EQ - Bass, Mid, Treble
7 / 4 / 8

Great for studio and live use, the Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro (APH-1) is a fantastic pickup. It has the silky smoothness of an old Gibson PAF pickup, with crisp clarity, and a warmth you could practically build a fire around. I've owned a few of these pickups, and I've used them in the neck position of a couple of Gibson Les Paul guitars, as well as the neck position of a Fender Telecaster. In both guitars, the pickup allowed the guitar's own characteristics to shine through, yet still imparted the tone with a wonderful singing "woman" tone, ala old Clapton, or Slash from Guns 'n' Roses. If you read my review on the Duncan Seth Lover pickups, this pickup offers similar tones, albeit a touch more modern and open sounding, and it is noticeably less expensive. I love both pickups for different applications, but this Alnico II Pro certainly gets the job done for classic rock, 50's rock 'n' roll type stuff, rockabilly, country (especially fingerpicked Chet Atkins style), blues, and jazz.

My favorite use is just jamming on a thick, overdriven Marshall, cranked up. This pickup excels at that type of use, and will provide all the creamy goodness you can handle. A bend, vibratoed note can sustain forever it seems, and the resulting tone will cause anyone, even lay-persons to take notice! I've had so many compliments on the guitar's tone if I play my Les Paul at a show. I highly recommend the Alnico II Pro for blues and classic rock tones especially, but as a generally versatile pickup, this one is a great choice as well.

I use it for over 10 years! In fact, I changed the pickups from the start of my Les Paul for two SD Alnico II Pro (Neck and Bridge).

I was looking for a vintage sound while being able to do some hardcore / metal and having heard the SD, I knew I had found my sound

The installation went very smoothly, is dismantled mics, one goes, one soda and let's go! It is very easy even for a non specialist welding No need to change the knobs or anything.

I love the grain and sustain the Alnico II Pro, they are bold, with nice midrange (without too much) and well-typed rock. Neck model is perfect for the arpeggios in his clear, bold and bluesy solos crunch.
They advantageously replace the original Gibson pickups while adding a nice sustain and a little more power. No breath, no interference to declare, as Axl Rose would say "Motherf *** er, it's perfect!"

By doubling (model N and B) and by adjusting the knobs of tone was a fairly broad palette of sounds that allows many sharp rhythmic rather dry, incisive solos, the solos fat almost infinite sustain, the crunchy riffs well arpeggios and great ... It's simple, listen to Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion, and you have an idea of ​​the sound you have! A Slash's solos you without adding a lot of effects, a Les Paul equipped with SD, a Marshall amp with its natural and distortion is almost sufficient

You can play blues, rock, funk and hard rock or metal (rather typed 70 or 80). Maybe not ideal for modern metal and jazz that said ...

The output level is low, however, it is a vintage microphone. Me, it is more than enough because I do not saturate my sound via the volume of my microphone but through the amp. It is important to know if you want to mix this with another microphone with high output, it will play the volume knob.

The value for money is excellent, nothing to say. I do not fault these microphones. For the EMG ESP on my side, I find the SD more typical and more personal, more vintage is clear. They have a beautiful grain even though they are less powerful output (not his!).

With experience, I would not hesitate one second and I would take back the SD. Besides, if I buy another Les Paul, I will ascend upon purchase. I found the sound I was looking for and I do not change!

I use a pair Alnico II on my epiphone G400 for several months (see notice G400).
I finally found the sound I was looking for moultes years!

They are typed vintage microphones, but delivered through a good amp (tube) sounds good pêchus. Playing in a record blues / rock / heavy rock, they had two cover all my needs sound.

To talk about the neck pickup (APH1N), in my opinion the best of both. It delivers velvety or creamy, round and warm. For arpeggios, solos endless sustain, small intervention in bluesy crunch is that happiness! Playing with the controls volume / tone, it runs a broad sound palette is dripping with desire, very good I tell you. I was using at the beginning of a SH4 in SD, the intermediate position was great for arpeggios, but the difference in output level and the coldness of SH4 compared convinced me to pair him his little brother's Bridge!

As directed vintage, it does not work at all with the metal / indus.....encore that

Since I play these pickups, I do not go up more than anything else on my guitars gibson type, unless one day I touch a little '61 SG with PAF.