All user reviews for the Seymour Duncan SH-14 Custom 5

I've had a few months at the beginning I had glued a cover but it sounds much better without.
mounted on a bridge fender american deluxe FMT (flamed maple table without pickguard)
I really like the fat side crunch, the sound is definitely Vintage +, it is described as a PAF on steroids, that's exactly it.
I said that I tried (too much?) pickups for some time to every mark and fat in the registry, this one is really great, beautiful harmonics, treble and calm many mediums
plain it is wise enough not pierce the eardrums and has a very strong mediums.
seu default, the split is very low, I prefer to split Paf Pro (which is also fat but less vintage in the frequency curve)
I would recommend a LP or SG for Southern rock sound or a sound strat texas

The sh14 is a development of custom SH5, dixit Seymour Duncan Alnico instead of a microwave ceramic.
So here, try on different guitars, I had found so so far, neither too much nor too little, in fact, and I had considered too way around ... (On my Les Paul classic: blah on my all-maple Warmoth: FRO). I was going to sell (buy regular opportunity to test microphones, I like !)...
... to its installation on my esp 901 (mahogany body, 50% and 50% maple, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, Floyd) and then, surprise: the microphone is revealed: juicy, full, thick.
So on this guitar very medium, large bass, a paf supercharged, a little gibson but without the typical dirty side (I love the 500t). Instead, he has a rather sleek and modern grain, a really great sound, very rock, can be metal (old and new Metallica album without worries). Exploitable clear because no screaming, splittable. Very flattering.
Compared to the HS6 (j'adooooooooooooore that), it is a bit more midrange and bassy, ​​less bright gain and output level equivalent.
Compared to sh12 (j'adoooooooooooore that too), it is more modern, clearer, more precise, tighter and less vintage. Incidentally, the sh12 fitted to the ESP turned on my Warmoth (including emg have reached the coup!) And again, the sound turned out! The 12 is much more comfortable than before! Like what ...
Morality, and that's why I love to try the mics on guitars, one must find the right combination of both. A microphone may be dull on a guitar and a super time. It's like girls with boys.
Q / P (I'm talking about guitar pickups): The list price is, for me, very excessive, regardless of the microphones, but cars on the net, FLOW. (90-100 € room nine is overpriced ..).
Yes I would do this choice, provided to find the right guitar.

The Seymour Duncan Custom 5 is part of a line of pickups that shows the difference a magnet swap can make. The Custom 5 is a Custom but with an Alnico 5 magnet installed, hence it's name. It still has the same slugs on one coil, adjustable screws on the other and four conductor wiring.

Seymour Duncan made a series that shows how important a magnet can be in terms of the overall tone of the pickup. The Custom 5 is the model that contains the Alnico 5 – a magnet that’s fairly popular in the pickup world. The Alnico 5 gives this pickup a PAF-esque tone in overdrive. It has that great vintage quality that the original PAFs had, but it’s not so loose that it can’t do those tight metal riffs. The midrange is a little scooped, so it helps keep things a bit more clear than if it had a boosted midrange. The low end blooms nicely, and the high end has a good bite without getting too piercing. It responds nicely to volume knob adjustments, and it sounds great both split and in parallel.

The Custom 5 works in pretty much any wood, I’ve found. However, every piece of wood is different, so if your guitar has a certain hyped frequency, it might result in a bad tone. I’ve used this pickup in both alder and mahogany with no issues at all. It’s great for that 80s metal tone and sounds a little more “alive” in standard tuning than the Custom does. Compared to the Custom Custom, it’s more aggressive and a bit tighter.

If you’re looking for a bridge pickup in the Seymour Duncan line, this is one I’d recommend for those playing 80s style metal. It thickens up the guitar enough to sound fat but isn’t too flubby. It’s tight without sacrificing dynamics and just seems like one of those good all-around pickups. If you’re more into pure metal, I recommend the Custom more as it’ll handle the tighter riffing a bit better.