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.
