Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Flat SSL-4 Pickup for Strat

I love Seymour Duncan pickups. I have them in my strat and they are fantastic. But this beast is something else. I bought a cheapo lap steel guitar to upgrade as a project. I wanted a single coil pickup, but one that was "hot". Then I came across the quarter pounder. I must say, its an incredible pickup, especially when you consider its form factor. It plays really smooth clean, but can turn into a snarling, growling beast,with loads of sustain. The most impressive thing for me, is that it has several voices, depending on how much volume your guitar is kicking out, not just full, middle and nearly off. It also reacts very well to the tone pot. All in all, if I was to recommend a pickup for a single pickup guitar, it would be this. Seymour knows his stuff.

Adds a great lead sound. Not too noisy and easy to install.

I have this pickup installed in my custom superstrat build for 6 years now and it's really good! I'm not a huge fan of single coil pickups,but this one has so much versatility,for the price it cannot be beaten!

Sounds great, good price and pairs with the other two SDs that I have - another quarter pounder and a JB

Using it in the neck position very clear full sound that doesn’t get muddy with mild overdrive or full distortion like many other pickups do. I’m getting another one for my other guitar. Highly recommended

Wasn't happy with this at first. I had to wrap some electrical tape around the coil to make it fit into my scratch plate. I was getting a very muddy sound and couldn't figure it out because I had no phasing issues. In the end, I switched the wires anyway, and soldered the black ground wire to the selector switch and the coloured to ground. (known as switching polarity). Once I'd also played around with the height of the pickup, combined with the height of the Wilkinson pickup in the middle, it now sounds terrific and I can see where the other reviews are coming from. This pickup needs to be quite close to the pressed down strings to function properly, in my opinion anyway. Obviously sound/tone is down to the player, but maybe if someone else has any issues, I hope my experience might help them if, like me, they are initially disappointed. I've gone from 2 stars to 4, and that's only due to the fitting issue.

These pickups are beefy. No wonder they are called quarter pounders! Easy to install and great value for money. They have transformed my G3T into a powerhouse guitar.

Excellent pick up. Used as middle brilliant sound.

These pickups are sensational for Stratocaster. Increase the output at least double fold. And retain the sought after sound of the instrument. I have purchased 4 of these for both of my Strats. (neck and bridge). ALSO ! USE THE EXISTING PICKUP SPACERS plus the ones included. If not, they will be flopping around like Grandma's old tits.

Just what i need seymour duncan pickup the best

La description est très bonne; ce micro a un son assez typique p90. Le son est un peu comme un micro simple (c'en est un) qui aurait pris des amphétamines. Il adore la saturation et sait vraiment bien trancher dans le mix pour des solos endiablés. Il est également très sensible au bouton de volume (si vous avez un potentiomètre digne de ce nom, type CTS etc...) et il est capable de très vite revenir sur du crunch (genre volume à 6/7) ou même du clean (genre volume à 3). Le son par contre n'est pas très typique d'une strat, il faut donc s'attendre à dénaturer un peu sa strat en l'installant. Il peut se monter à n'importe quelle position, il fait des merveilles en position chevalet (bridge). Je ne l'ai pas testé en micro manche mais je pense qu'il a un son bien trop épais pour cela (peut être avec un potard 500k du coup), sauf éventuellement pour des solos avec pas mal de distortion. C'est au passage le micro utilisé par Ritchie Blackmore....je vous aide un peu plus....Deep Purple ! Oui c'est ça, le son de smoke on the water, ce fameux riff pas trop saturé et ce joli solo bien bluesy à souhait viennent de ce micro.

私はこのピックアップの１９８０年代ものの、ダンカンロゴが未だなかったものを１つ使っています。 最近ＳＳＨの古いアイバニーズのギター（やはり８０年代のロードスター）にフロントは旧ＳＳＬ－４ をとりつけ、リアにはギブソンのターティーフィンガー（やはり８０年代のもの）をとりつけ、センター にシェクターモンスタートーンをつけ、ダーティーフィンガーとはセレクトレバーでシングル同士の ハーフトーンが出るように配線しましたが、全く相性が合わず音もよく出ませんでした。 そこで今回現行ＳＳＬ－４をつけたところ、相性は抜群でソロもカッティングもブライトで音抜けも良く ハーフトーンもばっちり決まりました。現行のものは配線の出所が旧型とは違っていましたが、音に 差はなく、一歩間違えればジャンクになり兼ねないギターが、時を経て甦った感じです。

Imprescindible en tu strato si quieres sonar como blackmore. Fácil de instalar, alta ganancia y claros medio-agudos.