High Order Pickups Custom Humbucker

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Strangeman86

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High Order Pickups Custom Humbucker
« on: September 10, 2018, 01:59:42 PM »
Custom humbucker from High Order pickups.  A little over 14k, standard-thick ceramic magnet.  Requested to be dark/thick.  Tonal references were the Norton and the Dominion.

Pros:
- Clarity on par or better than most 'fancier' pickups I've heard/tried.
- Not compressed at all.
- EQ sounds pretty close to a Custom Custom or a Steve Morse the way I hear it.
- Smooth and sweet highs, just the tiniest bit of vocal/expressive quality in the mids and a pleasantly tight/round bottom.
- Less than $100 after shipping.

Cons:
- Not quite as dynamically responsive as other pickups, but certainly not devoid of them.
- Can't get it in double cream.
- Jeff IS High Order Pickups and it takes around a month to get your order out.

Overall, a beautiful pickup.  Probably more vintage than modern, but will certainly chug when I ask it to.  It's very happy being clean or dirty, soloing or chords of any variety.  Jeff builds wonderful pickups that allow you to (in my experience; this is the fifth pickup I've ordered from him) express more of your playing than simply the voice of the pickup.
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Re: High Order Pickups Custom Humbucker
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2018, 02:22:42 PM »
Thanks for the review. Good to know. Honestly sounds like a pretty decent pickup. Got any sound clips?
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Re: High Order Pickups Custom Humbucker
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2018, 02:41:50 PM »
I am unable to produce any clips unfortunately.  But there are a few demos on youtube of Jeff's pickups and they all have shared the same open/clear quality.