Which syn Pickups

[Elton Breaux]

Shopping for new pickups. Want the seymour duncan invaders but theres so many different Sh-8sg. Which ones are best for high gain a7x style? Any advice would help.

 

[Matt Wildman]

I’d say go with the invaders

 

[Sven Barnitzki]

They´re some amazing pickups out there.
If you want to go passive:
Seymour Duncan Invaders
Bare Knuckle Aftermath (Favourite!)
The Schecter Syn Gates Pickups (with the SG Logo on it, pretty cool)
If you want to go active:
Seymour Duncan EMTY AHB3 (Mick Thomson Sig. – Put them in my Ibanez RGIT, pretty cool)
EMG 81 (but threre´s this “wawa”-sound – put them in my Ibanez MTM20)
This are just some examples. Check out the company-websites. They have examples, how there PUs sound like.

 

[Tory Capman]

I can vouch for those Invaders. They’re beasts!

 

[Jake Young]

I’d say it depends on the main style you play? The invaders are geared a little more toward hi-gain tones..they seem to have a little more low end compared to the new syn schecter pickup. I’d say the new one is the most versatile of the two though! They handle any style..not that you can’t play any style with the invaders. I actually have a set of invaders in a Kramer with a push/pull pot for coil splitting..and I absolutely love the tones I get with the invaders in single coil mode as weird as that sounds! I also have the Syn Custom-S with the new pickup and I love its tones also! Either option is a good choice Soo take your pick dude! Personally I prefer the new one..but you can’t go wrong with either!