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Hi Room

I am interested in getting either of the following humbuckers to place in the bridge position of my Epiphone SG400

KENT ARMSTRONG ULTRA DISTORTION HUMBUCKER 20K- OEM

or

KENT ARMSTRONG PAF DISTORTION HUMBUCKER 13K- OEM

I have a 8.8k pup in the neck for cleans

Does anyone know if they are any good?

I want to sound like my fav band THERAPY?

Also does anyone know if they will clean up ok?

Thanks

Gemil

I don't have those particular Kent Armstrongs, but I do have a pair of K.A. PAF Style Clones that sound pretty damn nice, especially given the price. For budget pickups, they don't seem too bad.

I had a 9k Kent Armstrong that probably would have sounded great in the bridge, but I put it in the neck because KA, especially at that time, was known -- at least to me -- more for their jazz pickups.

At the time, I hadn't figured out that with some exceptions, anything above 7.8 to 8.0k is just too hot for a good jazz neck tone, so it was kinda muddy.

I had the mega distortion. Very heavy pickup in the vein of a Dimarzio distortion. Lots of bass and sizzling treble. The construction was pretty poor. They didn't terminate their leads very well. Instead they just taped them together.

Snowdog

I've tried K.A pups and wasn't impressed with them,although there are a lot of players who do like them.

KA90s are great!...but I wouldn't use his humbuckers if they gave em to me.

The only HBs worse are Carvins and that crap coming over by the boatload from Asia.

I think I would choose KA HBs by a hair over PRS HBs


Originally Posted by ZhangliqunI had a 9k Kent Armstrong that probably would have sounded great in the bridge, but I put it in the neck because KA, especially at that time, was known -- at least to me -- more for their jazz pickups.

At the time, I hadn't figured out that with some exceptions, anything above 7.8 to 8.0k is just too hot for a good jazz neck tone, so it was kinda muddy.

I wonder how it would have sounded with an a4 magnet? Maybe not quite as muddy?