Seymour Duncan - Black Winter Neck Blackened Matte Black

It's a secret that connoisseurs of guitar gear whisper: the neck pickup is the element that separates a good sound from a great sound, and the Seymour Duncan Black Winter ™ neck pickup is on a mission to shatter the myth of the 'warm', polished sound at this position. Imagine instead: a dark, almost mineral tone that gives weight to your chords and cutting presence to your melodies.

With a 13k resistor and tight winding around a ceramic magnet, this pickup generates a consistent output that stands up to ferocious distortion. Bass is dense and well defined, preventing acoustic mush in low tunings - a boon for death or doom metal players. Palm mutes gain a physical impact.

Articulation is its greatest asset. The clarity it retains in the mids and highs is phenomenal for such a powerful neck pickup. Each note of your fast arpeggios or technical solos remains distinct, without ever melting into a harmonic fog.

Wired with four leads, it becomes your trump card. You can combine it in series with its bridge counterpart for a frontal attack, or activate parallel or split wiring to discover clearer, more complex textures.