BJFE HB

Extraordinary well-balanced and versatile pickups

Absolutely fantastic set, these cut through the mix like butter and work great with basically everything from low-gain to low tuning light chug. Neck pickup has an unbelievable clarity and pick sensitivity unheard of in a neck humbucker on a bassy/boomy shorter-scale LP-style configuration. Sustain is simply unreal. Not trying to emulate some mythical PAF-correct Eq and focusing on balancing makes it extremely versatile for recording. If you plug straight to a Marshall JCM800 with no pedals in-between these might sound at first glance like they're missing some seasoning (the usual Alnico IV flat thing) but once you try these you'll want to add the colouring on your plugins and not have them baked-in hardcoded into the pups. A well-kept secret, a hidden gem this BJFE set is - for how long I don't know!

Very versatile pickup set

Clarity, balance and the right amount of output to work well in almost all situations, very PAF-like feel and tone. Replaced the stock Burstbuckers in my ’57 Custom reissue with the BJFE set and they sound great in an all mahogany guitar with that distinct alnico 4 midrange growl and top end airiness.