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Gibson 500T Super Ceramic Bridge Humbucker Electric Guitar Pickup

GIBSON PICKUPS, Super Ceramic 500T hot and nasty with excellent sustain and definition, Special Order Position: bridge Magnet: ceramic

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Old School Van Halen Crunch

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I put this pickup in the bridge spot of my EVH Peavey Wolfgang (basswood body, no top, maple neck and fingerboard) to give the the guitar a more defined crunch. The output is super hot and has a lot of high end. Tapping riffs are excellent especially played through a Hi gain amp. I used this amp to get a brown sound. Paired with a dimed plexi the thing ripped like no other. I don't know the output of it, but it seems higher than my old Motor City Nuke pickups and those are rated at 23K DC resistance. Sometimes the pu seemed too hot. Things could gett muddy sometimes.

Liked about it	I liked the how it really got me the brown sound. It was super high output. It has a nice sparkle.
Didn't like	There was too much treble and it got muddy without the right amp settings. It wasn't a good choice for clean stuff. Because it had so much treble, other notes got lost in the mix.

Overall satisfaction:

3.0

By The Rossness
Feb 04, 2010

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Now, Gibson doesn't really publish their pickup outputs or DC resistance values, but I can tell you this is one burning hot pickup. I have a hot ceramic set in a Les Paul and they'll keep up with any other replacement high-output pickup (Dimarzio X2N, Duncan Dimebucker, etc.) with no problems. The tone is well-balanced, albeit a little on the noisy side. If you have good noise reduction technology (HUSH, ISP, etc.) you'll have no problems. It takes a bit of riding the volume control to get a clean sound out of this pickup, and depending on the quality of your controls you may not be able to pull it off.

The attached sound clip contains both the 496R and the 500T--the 500T is all of the rhythm and leads below the 12th fret--you should be able to hear the tonal difference from the 496R fairly easily.

Gibson_Ceramics.mp3

Liked about it	Actual Gibson replacement pickup. Good quality wiring. Great for those who want more output.
Didn't like	Expensive--more so than the Dimarzio or SD counterparts. Doesn't do clean very well. No published output numbers.