CHEAP vs EXPENSIVE Humbucker Edition! - Can You Hear The Difference?

In this week's video I compare a set of $14 eBay pickups versus a set of $150 Seymour Duncans!
At $7 each are they a FANTASTIC deal or a wast of money?
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[robandmurr]

I can make any pickup sound like a fifteen dollar one.

[jacket]

You should have played Smoke on the water considering you got your pickups in deep purple

[jamiecaldwell]

If you haven't noticed, pickups are very easy to make. Yes, all pickups sound slightly different. But if you're using the same type magnets, poll pieces and wire there gonna sound close. The biggest difference is the output based on how many wraps and the wrap pattern. That's about it. Good video.

[JasonNewman]

I'm shocked. I picked the cheap pickup as the high-end pickup every single time. Fuller sound, less noise when clean ... I'm blown away. Everything I know is a lie.

[timbrink]

The tone is in the fingers. I had my stock fingers replaced with DiMarzio Bricklayers. Sustain for days but a little scratchy when sliding.

[elijahmerrill]

If I watched as many videos about music theory as I do about hardware, I'd sound incredible.

[DavidMGarens]

Let's all buy crap equipment. It will sound just as good. Save money. Buy more pizza.

[necurrence]

Imagine throwing a small gig in your garage with your budget gear and some close friends and then you mom shows up being all proud of your progress. And then all of the sudden she says "stop it right there, this can't go on like this. The tone of those Chinese humbuckers lacks definition, we need to immediately swap them with some Seymour Duncans sweetie, mama loves you and wants what is best for your tone"

[Dallen]

That's amazing for $15 pickups. They have a different tone but it's not a bad thing. Infact i'd say they nailed a sound type with them.

[richardpigott]

Finally sombody clarifies this... Invest in the amp... Totally agree...
Great video...
So many people spend so much on guitars, when the amp is the noticable pound for pound difference on the ear.... Top vid

[danejurus]

0:21 Wow! You shredded so fast I didn't even see your fingers moving. Amazing!

[PandaSharpener]

The first riff comparison shocked me! I thought for sure that the cheap pickups were the first guitar, but i was wrong haha. Great vid Darrel!

[matiasarteaga]

Do one with: most expensive pickups on the cheapest guitar

[andycowley]

Fantastic! I was just about to pay £200 for Seymour Duncans, and now I'm sticking with my B&G's! You've saved me a bunch of cash!

[kylef]

I think the cheaps actually won the clean seriously

[DarrellBraunGuitar]

You guys have been asking for a "cheap vs expensive" Humbucker edition ever since the single coil version was released!
Here ya go! :)

[rizqibayumantari]

We are livin in the era where cheap stuff can stand toe to toe with other stuff that priced 5x times of it.
If Darell just slap the SD logo on that Cheap PU, people would believe that the cheap one is real SD.

[milosmrdovic]

I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but Chinese pickups sounded better in all 4 blind tests... Either I'm hallucinating or SD needs to shut down all their factories and start doing chicken farming or something.

As always, brilliant video and playing Darrell!

[McOuroborosBurger]

I’m not gonna lie, those purple pickups look badass on that guitar

[bassicbassist]

I think I'm going construct a guitar out of Chinese parts now.