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Not without drawbacks (unfortunately)
Bought two deathbuckers for neck and bridge. I didn't want alumitone humbucker in neck because it is "voiced for the classic mid range response humbucker tone" (from official description).
My first and biggest complain is informing. Nothing states that it has very powerful magnets that will ruin your sustain and some high fret notes from about 10-12th fret and higher if installed in neck position. It will have big volume drop relative to bridge if lowered enough to not interfere with sustain.
Second thing that annoyed me is the design flaw: high e note has noticeable volume drop doesn't matter in neck or bridge position or pickup distance from strings. I think it is because outside strings get less magnetic field but it's not noticeable for low e string (may be it has something to do with string thickness or I didn't care to do more tests because of frustration). Worst scenario is clean sound when you get that bell like sound from 3rd and 2nd string and don't get it from 1st string in addition to volume drop. Changing string gauge from 9 to 10 didn't help.
Quality wise it could be done better or more carefully for that price. Especially if you account for very simplistic pickup structure. But it's minor.
From sound perspective bridge pickup is cool if you don't play on high e string or mainly play high gain music.
One curious observation. It has audible power transformer like buzz at high gain in humbucker mode and does NOT in split mode. Both of humbuckers. Nothing scary but it's interesting.
I will definitely sell one of the deathbuckers and haven't figured out what to do with the other.
My first and biggest complain is informing. Nothing states that it has very powerful magnets that will ruin your sustain and some high fret notes from about 10-12th fret and higher if installed in neck position. It will have big volume drop relative to bridge if lowered enough to not interfere with sustain.
Second thing that annoyed me is the design flaw: high e note has noticeable volume drop doesn't matter in neck or bridge position or pickup distance from strings. I think it is because outside strings get less magnetic field but it's not noticeable for low e string (may be it has something to do with string thickness or I didn't care to do more tests because of frustration). Worst scenario is clean sound when you get that bell like sound from 3rd and 2nd string and don't get it from 1st string in addition to volume drop. Changing string gauge from 9 to 10 didn't help.
Quality wise it could be done better or more carefully for that price. Especially if you account for very simplistic pickup structure. But it's minor.
From sound perspective bridge pickup is cool if you don't play on high e string or mainly play high gain music.
One curious observation. It has audible power transformer like buzz at high gain in humbucker mode and does NOT in split mode. Both of humbuckers. Nothing scary but it's interesting.
I will definitely sell one of the deathbuckers and haven't figured out what to do with the other.
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