I have a 2002 Gibson Les Paul Standard. Installation from Sweetwater was clean and perfect. All are welcome, from seasoned pros to absolute beginners. Vintage Guitar: Who got you started on the path of electronics? the first instant I was pleased with what I heard and now several weeks later I am really loving what they do. I am really pleased with the Lovers and would have paid more for this sound if I had to. I just bought a Godin LG (first series) equipped with these pickups. If you're a sloppy player it will tell on you. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. This pickup actually sounds great (I have a 4 conductor Seth Lover in another guitar) but this was labelled a 4 conductor and in actuality was only a 2 conductor. View cart for details. The picture shows mine after I replaced the nickel covers with ebony. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Pickups, Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like, {"modules":["unloadOptimization","bandwidthDetection"],"unloadOptimization":{"browsers":{"Firefox":true,"Chrome":true}},"bandwidthDetection":{"url":"https://ir.ebaystatic.com/cr/v/c1/thirtysevens.jpg","maxViews":4,"imgSize":37,"expiry":300000,"timeout":250}}. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. The Hamer volume controls are interesting beasts and when fully open they really let some high end frequencies come through. Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. Wow what a difference. This pair of Seth Lover PAFs by Seymour Duncan were installed in a 1995 Hamer Studio with a rosewood fretboard, mahogany body and a flamed maple cap so I am not about to describe how they sound in a Les Paul by Gibson or one of the LP clones. May have been a fluke, but another strike was the pickup was really poorly packaged. While Dimarzio has been more popular in strat style guitars and Shred guitars Seymour Duncan has been more popular among Les Paul and Gibson players. Due to it matching my guitar I installed these in, Gold would look awful due to the rest being silver hardware It’s a purely vintage pickup that features an Alnico II magnet, single conductor braid shielded wiring, adjustable pole pieces on one coil and is not wax potted. These Seth Lover pickups are unpotted and they really make the sound resonate. All new Seymour Duncan Seth Lover A4 humbuckers offer visceral depth and robust dimension while a standard three-way toggle switch and coil-splitting push/pull tone knobs allow for easy tonal variation. From what I read about the Lovers I was afraid they too would brighten an already bright guitar. Playing with the volume and tone together just keeps revealing more and more great sounds. I need to select some pickups for blues and classic rock. Lover passed away on January 31, 1997. - Seth Lover is honky, airy, sweet, and articulate; my fave Duncan PAF type pickup outside of the custom shop. SH-55B Seth Lover Model Bridge, Humbucker guitar pickup from Seymour Duncan in the Vintage Output Humbuckers series. - Seymour Duncan Seth Lover Set Nickel Electric Guitar Humbucker Pickup Set - Nickel. Buy It Now +C $34.40 shipping; Seymour Duncan SH55 Seth Lover Humbucker Pickup - (Neck Position) (Nickel Cover) 4.9 out of 5 stars 22. Just like the original 1955 P.A.F.s, the SH-55 utilizes a nickel silver cover and long-legged nickel silver bottom plate, butyrate plastic bobbins, plain enamel wire, Alnico 2 bar, wooden spacer, and black paper tape. Apr 23, 2018 #1 Blasphemy? There is arguably no better true PAF humbucker tone than the Seth Lover Seymour Duncans, played by everyone from Joe Perry to Steve Stevens, you'll get all the classic punch that you crave. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. The Seymour Duncan Seth Lover is Duncan’s tribute to the original Seth Lover PAF humbucker featured in the original Gibson Les Pauls. Perfect! (There is an article in Premier Guitar about the history of DeArmond that mentions this.) Many of the classic … Seth Lover: I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on January 1st, 1910. Works especially well with maple and ebony fingerboards. The SH-55 Seth Lover modelis Seymour Duncan’s tribute to the father of the humbucking pickup. The Seth Lover is one of Duncans more old school pickups. The dislike with all the PAF style pickups I tried was they helped to make the guitar sound brighter and this Hamer Studio does not need help like that!! The included pickup ring is meant for a carved top guitar. The Pickup Lounge; Talk with your fellow tone freaks on the web's liveliest (and friendliest!) You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. I'm gearing up to build a semi-hollow guitar with a mahogany back & neck, carved spruce top, and 24.75" scale IRW fret board. Something went wrong. LOL I imported a guitar that needs pickups pretty bad (among a bunch of other things) and I'm tonally stuck in alnico 2 land. Major upgrade to the original equipment, and very close to gibson 335 sounding. I have tried other pickups by Duncan and Gotoh and Manilus in this guitar but none were going where I wanted to go. The included pickup ring as expected was too thick for this project. or Best Offer +C $18.27 shipping; Free Returns. The alnico 2 bar magnet helps to smooth the high end response, while the vintage output coils bring out this pickups rich harmonic content. At the time, Lover was working with pickup designer Seymour Duncan on the SH-55 humbucker, more commonly known as the Seth Lover Model. Seth's in both positions, hands down. Product Description The SH-55 was designed jointly by Seymour and humbucker inventor Seth Lover. Perfect, Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Pickups. From the first instant I was pleased with what I heard and now several weeks later I am really loving what they do. I am really pleased with the Lovers and would have paid more for this sound if I had to. I use it for 2 years now. C $137.65. Reactions: 1 person The pickups were a P-90 in the bridge position and an Alnico V pickup, newly designed by Seth Lover, in the neck position. Duncan also sells something called the Triple Shot switching system. The Seymour Duncan Seth Lover is Duncan’s tribute to the original Seth Lover PAF humbucker featured in the original Gibson Les Pauls. Re-designed this year, the Deluxe DC is a performance-driven double cutaway semi-hollow boasting sweet, crystalline tone. So it is likely that the internals closely match the original. The Seth Lover is named after an old pickup designer in the 50s who designed the early. The Seth Lover's were my last hope. Designed jointly by Seymour and humbucker inventor, the late Seth Lover. The Seth Lover neck model gives you a smooth but articulate tone by striking the perfect balance of warm, full sounding low end with a nice sweet treble. The bridge is likewise useful at all tone settings but it really can give a nice bite and brings to mind some sounds from Bloomfield and Clapton way back when. DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion. Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Ultra-authentic, Alnico 2, P.A.F.-type humbucker. C $429.10. Frankly they sound better than more expensive pickups I tried in this guitar.Read full review. Seymour Duncan SH-55b Seth Lover Humbucker Guitar Pickup Nickel Bridge 5.0 out of 5 stars 3. $119.00. Frankly they sound better than more expensive pickups I tried in this guitar. Seymour Duncan SH55 Seth Lover Humbucker The SH-55 was designed jointly by Seymour and humbucker inventor Seth Lover. Duncan Seth Lover SH-55 but potted? Hi. Designed jointly by Seymour and humbucker inventor, the late Seth Lover. - '59 is a nice sounding pickup but kind of bland, no real personality of its own. List price: Previous Price C $495.99. Luckily, I had a black thin flat pickup ring left over from another project that is perfect. This year, I’ll be 86 years old. SH-55 Seth Lover Humbucker set. One way to reproduce a given pickup, is to simply manufacture it as closely as possible to the original methods. Originally mounted on a Ltd. entry level, I did not exploit its full potential. I am presently playing all kinds of music except metal through a '65 Fender Princeton Reverb Reissue with stock Jensen speaker and a Vox AC15C1 with the Celestial greenback speaker. Seymour Duncan Sey-1043 SH-55b Seth Lover Humbucker Guitar Pickup Nickel Bridge. Rolling off the tone control just opens up more possibilities from this pickup and it remains useful throughout the range of tone settings. Seymour Duncan SH-55 Seth Lover Humbucker Set Nickel Cover A calibrated set of the most faithful PAF’s available (SH-55), built exactly the way Seth Lover intended for a smooth and sweet tone. Designed jointly by Seymour and the inventor of the humbucking pickup, the late Seth Lover. I know its gotta A2 for this single cutaway gtr. What you put into it with your playing style is what it puts out. They're the closest you'll ever get to the original humbucking pickup … NOT THE CASE. 12-08-2014, 09:02 PM #4 The double cutaways provide speed and comfort all the way up to the last fret, insuring that you'll never run out of notes, no matter what your style is. This pickup is clear, clean and articulate. Description Specs Rated 5/5 Reviews An Original Design from the Godfather of Humbuckers! List price: Previous Price C $245.35. Just like the original 1955 P.A.F.s, the SH-55 utilizes a nickel-silver cover and long-legged nickel-silver bottom plate, butyrate plastic bobbins, plain enamel wire, … tone forum. Cookies help us improve performance, enhance user experience and deliver our services. The guitar sounds great through both. Just installed them on my 1990 Les Paul, they are the best PAF style pickups I've heard in a long time, sustain forever, they growl and have great tone, I highly recommend them. Interestingly, the P90 was Seth Lover responding to the DeArmond pickup. It’s a purely vintage pickup that features an Alnico II magnet, single conductor braid shielded wiring, adjustable pole pieces on one coil and is not wax potted. Not recommended for use with ultra high gain tube amplifiers over 50 watts. ... Seymour Duncan SH-55 Seth Lover Humbucker Pickup set Neck and Bridge set. DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion Pickups. Any guitar today that uses two coils in the same housing wired to get rid of the hum associated with single coil pickups owes a bit of thanks to the original pioneer of pickup design, Seth Lover. The neck is very articulate and clear but warmth is available at all times. The neck is very articulate and clear but warmth is available at all times. I am presently playing all kinds of music except metal through a '65 Fender Princeton Reverb Reissue with stock Jensen speaker and a Vox AC15C1 with the Celestial greenback speaker. Thanks to Lover's input, the result was nothing short of but pure, iconic, instantly recognizable humbucker tone. Just like the original 1955 P.A.F.s, the SH-55 utilizes a nickel silver bottom plate, butyrate plastic bobbins; plain enamel wire, an Alnico bar magnet, a wooden spacer, and black paper tape. Just like the original 1955 P.A.F.s, the SH-55 utilizes a nickel silver bottom plate, butyrate plastic bobbins; plain enamel wire, an Alnico bar magnet, a wooden spacer, and black paper tape. It is 2 switches (one for each coil) discreetly sent into the pickup surround, this gives you the option to put each coil on, off or out of phase. There is such a thing as the Seth Lover 4 wires that lets you do all kinds of switching options. Re-designed this year, the Deluxe DC is a performance-driven double cutaway semi-hollow boasting sweet, crystalline tone. Seymour Duncan developed their amazing SH-55 humbucking pickup with the help of the very inventor of the humbucker himself, Seth Lover. Only 2 left in stock - order soon. I borrowed a Seth Lover SH-55N so I was not able to open it, but it is marketed as a kind of reproduction of the original P.A.F. I installed a Gibson ES 335 which are original with 57 Classic. Just a very quick clip of the Seymour Duncan SH-55 Seth Lover pickup set. They sound better than my 57 classic in my Gibson LP and Burstbuckers in my other Gibson LP. The unpotted cover gives a slightly "honky" microphonic quality. The SH-55 was designed jointly by Seymour and humbucker inventor Seth Lover. I've been playing Seymour Duncan pickups for over 20 years and this is a great pickup. item 4 Seymour Duncan Seth Lover Humbucker Pickup Set Nickel SH-55 11108-20-NC openbox 3 - Seymour Duncan Seth Lover Humbucker Pickup Set Nickel SH-55 … Thread starter mattthehoople; Start date Apr 23, 2018; mattthehoople Member. I am not at all sure how these Lovers would sound through a high gain amp but maybe someone else has tried that and can address the situation. Tested on the same amp,and in the same LP-guitar,both kind of humbuckers tested with nickel-cases: -The seth Lover sounded noticably warmer on … Just like the original 1955 P.A.F.s, the SH-55 utilizes a nickel silver cover and long-legged nickel silver bottom plate, butyrate plastic bobbins, plain enamel wire, Alnico 2 bar, wooden spacer, and black paper tape. These went into my Epiphone Dot and are just so smooth, or hot, whichever you prefer. The bridge is likewise useful at all tone settings but it really can give a nice bite and brings to mind some sounds from Bloomfield and Clapton way back when. Seth Lover SH-55 Guitar Pickup; Designed jointly by Seymour and humbucker inventor, the late Seth Lover. Seth Lover SH-55 Guitar Pickup Seth Lover Les Paul Classic STK-S7, STK-S4m, & Seth Lover Humbucker Combo with Lari Basilio Hand Built in California. $129.00. Messages 548. Clearer, warmer, tighter. Seymour Duncan is an American pickup maker that has been making aftermarket pickups for many years. Copyright © 1995-2020 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Seymour Duncan SH-55n Seth Lover neck pickup with gold cover and old style metal braided lead. Playing with the volume and tone together just keeps revealing more and more great sounds. From Joe Perry and Steve Stevens to Dweezil Zappa and Blues Saraceno, top guitar heavies use 'em. The guitar sounds great through both. The hand-wound '50-'51 "Crushed" Blackguard single-coil bridge pickup is joined by a Seymour Duncan Seth Lover SH-55 humbucking neck pickup for a one-two punch of tone. For brighter toned instruments. No visible marks showing that work was done on the guitar. I replaced the stock '57 Classic pickups with these Seth Lovers. item 1 Seymour Duncan SH-55b & SH-55n Seth Lover Nickel Set SH55 (6 String Sets) 1 -, item 2 Seymour Duncan SH-55 Seth Lover Humbucker Nickel Cover Set - FREE WORLD SHIPPING 2 -, item 3 Seymour Duncan SH-55 Seth Lover Humbucker Nickel Cover Set - FREE WORLD SHIPPING 3 -, item 4 Seymour Duncan SH-55b & SH-55n Seth Lover Nickel Set SH-55 ( FREE TUNER ) 4 -, item 5 Seymour Duncan SH-55b & SH-55n Seth Lover Nickel Set SH55 (6 String Sets) 5 -, item 6 Seymour Duncan® SH-55 Seth Lover Bridge & Neck Pickup Set~Nickel Covers~USA~New 6 -, item 7 Seymour Duncan SH-55 Seth Lover Humbucker Set Nickel Cover 7 -, 5.0 out of 5 stars based on 28 product ratings. The frets are low and flat, as opposed to the usual medium jumbo frets found on other Les Paul customs, and the guitar soon was given the nickname "The Fretless Wonder". The SH-55 Seth Lover is also better balanced,The Antiquities have low midrange and weaker/aged magnets.. 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 23 product ratings, 5.0 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings, 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 25 product ratings, 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 15 product ratings, 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 48 product ratings, 5.0 out of 5 stars based on 14 product ratings. I have tried the standard Duncans that came with the guitar (JB and a '59) and was never happy with the JB though the '59 was decent. The Hamer volume controls are interesting beasts and when fully open they really let some high end frequencies come through. These PAF-style pickups are AMAZING. This humbucking pickup has the standard stats - two coils, gold-plated metal cover, gold-plated screws, the whole 9 yards. All new Seymour Duncan Seth Lover A4 humbuckers offer visceral depth and robust dimension while a standard three-way toggle switch and coil-splitting push/pull tone knobs allow for easy tonal variation. I am not at all sure how these Lovers would sound through a high gain amp but maybe someone else has tried that and can address the situation. Seymour Duncan/Seth Lover SH-55 Custom Shop Humbucker pickup has arrived. Their pickups are the counterparts to brands like Dimarzio. Seymour Duncan SH-55B Seth Lover Model Bridge, (This content has been automatically translated from French). Rolling off the tone control just opens up more possibilities from this pickup and it remains useful throughout the range of tone settings. 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