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Gibson Accessories 496R Hot Ceramic Humbucker (Double Black) Reviews

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TREX
from SLC
April 10, 2011 Music Background:
35years, Teaching, Learning, and everything else.

correction for this is it

The pickup I tested measured at 19.3 ohms. not 13.9 as in the article above. This is one hot hot hot pick-up
Trex
from SLC
March 11, 2011 Music Background:
Player,Instructor, and everything else.

This is IT

This is one heck of a hot pickup. Mine tested at 13.9 ohms. WOW. It is amazing for playing metal or hard rock. The drawback is it will not clean-up very well. If you run through a clean channel and roll off the volume, the power of the pickup is still there. I run one in a Les Paul standard. It is my Ozzy guitar, that's the only kind of sound you can get from the pickup. This is a great pickup. but if you play more than one type of music, you will need more than one guitar. I have tried all kinds of processors and the pickup still has a very hard time to be cleaned-up. Bewarned.

Gibson Accessories 496R Hot Ceramic Humbucker (Double Black)

496R "Hot Ceramic" Humbucker with Double Black Coils

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