Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Learn the secret to choosing the correct pickups for your guitar - critical for new builds and your best guitar. Find out how I make decisions and watch reviews of Seymour Duncan SSL-5, SH-4 Jeff Beck and YJM Fury neck pickups.
Contents:
00:00 Start
00:15 Intro & preamble
01:29 Think carefully
02:37 Pickup choice
03:21 Choice 1: YJM Fury
04:51 Choice 2: SSL-5
05:59 Choice 3: SH-4
06:33 Reason for SH-4
07:06 YJM close up
09:23 SSL-5 RWRP close up
11:27 SH-4 close up
13:56 Overview so far
15:17 Pickup Specifications
15:39 YJM Fury specs
17:27 Why THIS pickup?
17:59 SSL-5 specs
20:46 SH-4 Jeff Beck specs
24:41 Warranty
26:11 Basis of score
27:06 try out and final score
What you will learn:
Who is Seymour Duncan?
What is special about these pickups?
How to choose the right pickups?
Where can I buy those pickups?
What is the warranty?
Related links:
My website: tonymckenzie.com
Seymour Duncan Website: seymourduncan.com
Videos showing my guitar builds (playlist of 62 videos! :
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD38427759E821683
One of the hardest things about building an electric guitar is the pickup choice. Even if you want to 'update your sound' with new pickups for your guitar it remains a major stumbling block when trying to choose the 'right' pickups for you.
There are a multitude of reasons why this is not a simple choice. For example, you might play a particular style of music, but also you play other styles like blues, rock, fusion, metal, etc. and just hoping that makers when they talk about their pickups is accurate really is something that often you might take 'with a pinch of salt'. Everyone and his dog are today making pickups for electric guitar, whether replacements you might have been told are 'great', or even brands that you literally have never heard of. Buying anything like that to base YOUR TONE on is nothing short of crazy.
So what do you do? Just make a choice and 'hope' for the best, or believe your 'mates' and what they say? Remember its all subjective and your sound may well not be the same as theirs. But in this video, as well as covering some Seymour Duncan pickups like the YJM Fury for the neck, like the SSL-5 custom would RWRP pickup for the middle position and the SH-4 Jeff Beck pickup for the bridge, I actually tell you exactly how to make your own decisions based on what you play and why.
I also cover for the Seymour Duncan pickups the 4 year warranty that they offer and a 'try out' offer that Seymour Duncan offer. This removes the guess work out of pickup buying and if you do make that mistake of the 'wrong' pickup for you then SD has you covered.
If you are building a guitar then this whole series covers many of the specialized components and some of the lesser known choices of woods, neck options and much more.
This video is in 4K
I have spent some time creating this video and it remains without sponsor so is a real genuine overview of my findings of Seymour Duncan pickups.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RING THE BELL, AND THUMBS UP to give my channel a boost and thank you for watching - I hope the video is enjoyable for you and that you see the things in it that other reviews NEVER show!.
(c) A B McKenzie and tonymckenzie.com 2009-2024
All Rights Reserved. All Trade Marks Acknowledged
Visit my website for more incredible reviews or my YouTube channel
#seymourduncan #yjm #ssl-5 #sh-4 #stratocaster #tonymckenzie #fender #review #reviewer #customshop #pickups #guitarpickups
Learn the secret to choosing the correct pickups for your guitar - critical for new builds and your best guitar. Find out how I make decisions and watch reviews of Seymour Duncan SSL-5, SH-4 Jeff Beck and YJM Fury neck pickups.
Contents:
00:00 Start
00:15 Intro & preamble
01:29 Think carefully
02:37 Pickup choice
03:21 Choice 1: YJM Fury
04:51 Choice 2: SSL-5
05:59 Choice 3: SH-4
06:33 Reason for SH-4
07:06 YJM close up
09:23 SSL-5 RWRP close up
11:27 SH-4 close up
13:56 Overview so far
15:17 Pickup Specifications
15:39 YJM Fury specs
17:27 Why THIS pickup?
17:59 SSL-5 specs
20:46 SH-4 Jeff Beck specs
24:41 Warranty
26:11 Basis of score
27:06 try out and final score
What you will learn:
Who is Seymour Duncan?
What is special about these pickups?
How to choose the right pickups?
Where can I buy those pickups?
What is the warranty?
Related links:
My website: tonymckenzie.com
Seymour Duncan Website: seymourduncan.com
Videos showing my guitar builds (playlist of 62 videos! :
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD38427759E821683
One of the hardest things about building an electric guitar is the pickup choice. Even if you want to 'update your sound' with new pickups for your guitar it remains a major stumbling block when trying to choose the 'right' pickups for you.
There are a multitude of reasons why this is not a simple choice. For example, you might play a particular style of music, but also you play other styles like blues, rock, fusion, metal, etc. and just hoping that makers when they talk about their pickups is accurate really is something that often you might take 'with a pinch of salt'. Everyone and his dog are today making pickups for electric guitar, whether replacements you might have been told are 'great', or even brands that you literally have never heard of. Buying anything like that to base YOUR TONE on is nothing short of crazy.
So what do you do? Just make a choice and 'hope' for the best, or believe your 'mates' and what they say? Remember its all subjective and your sound may well not be the same as theirs. But in this video, as well as covering some Seymour Duncan pickups like the YJM Fury for the neck, like the SSL-5 custom would RWRP pickup for the middle position and the SH-4 Jeff Beck pickup for the bridge, I actually tell you exactly how to make your own decisions based on what you play and why.
I also cover for the Seymour Duncan pickups the 4 year warranty that they offer and a 'try out' offer that Seymour Duncan offer. This removes the guess work out of pickup buying and if you do make that mistake of the 'wrong' pickup for you then SD has you covered.
If you are building a guitar then this whole series covers many of the specialized components and some of the lesser known choices of woods, neck options and much more.
This video is in 4K
I have spent some time creating this video and it remains without sponsor so is a real genuine overview of my findings of Seymour Duncan pickups.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RING THE BELL, AND THUMBS UP to give my channel a boost and thank you for watching - I hope the video is enjoyable for you and that you see the things in it that other reviews NEVER show!.
(c) A B McKenzie and tonymckenzie.com 2009-2024
All Rights Reserved. All Trade Marks Acknowledged
Visit my website for more incredible reviews or my YouTube channel
#seymourduncan #yjm #ssl-5 #sh-4 #stratocaster #tonymckenzie #fender #review #reviewer #customshop #pickups #guitarpickups
