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Has anybody played one of the new Ibanez's with the new Duncan/Ibz pickups? I've read some decent reviews on H.C., but I'm wondering if their just the old Duncan Designed pickups in a shiney new package. I'm looking to pick up one of the SZ320 gold tops. Sweet!!

I havent played them but I hear they are very simmilar to the duncan distortion and the 59. There was a thread about this like a month or so ago....maybe you should search.

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I know that the pickups are the Duncan Designed HB-103 which is like the Distortion and the neck is the HB-101 which is like the 59'.

I have played them and they sound very nice. the bridge sounds similar to a distortion but the added hex screws instead of slugs add a different dimension to the tone. the neck is very 59-ish. full and fat and cleans up nicely. together (and split by the nature of the guitar) gives a nice, clean, almost acoustic tone ... very similar to a strat in the neck/middle position.

I sure hope that these pickups aren't similar to actual SD's.

I've got them in my 2005 Ibanez SZ 520 and they sound like ass. The neck is actually nice clean, but the bridge pickup is weak, thin and muddy as hell.

I keep hearing people say they're the same as USA duncans and if that's the case I'm scared to spend the money the get real Duncans.

i just bought the ibanez sz320mh......the solid mahogany one

i work in a music store, and have played everything in it ( all 350 electrics) and i can honestly say that they sound realy good

now outside the mahogany body, im not sure what they will sound like, but in this guitar there warm, and bright....but it could be the body too.
i read that they matched the pups to the guitar, so they may have hit the nail on the head.....

i usualy change the pups in all my guitars before they even get home, but i think i am going to leave these in them for a while and give them an honest evaluation

Hey, where in ohio are you from?

the Akron Area

after a week or so
there getting ripped out, and i think i am going to go with a livewire metal in the bridge and a JB in the neck

there muddy in this guitar, and i have tried out like 5 different amps and cabs looking to see if it was my rig, or the ax......its the pups....

the bridge has NO punch in it...just blah, muddy and a bit on the weak side.

the bridge has NO punch in it...just blah, muddy and a bit on the weak side.

LOL. I told you the bridge pickup was weak and thin. At the store it actually sounded great through a Randall SS Combo but when I got it home through my XXX half stack it sounded like ass. I'm gonna try a JB and a Custom in the bridge and if those fail I'm putting in an EMG 81/60 set.

If it says quot;,quot; they're made in USA. If it says quot;Duncan,quot; they're made in the Korea in the same factory that makes Duncan Designed pickups.

Either way, they're quot;real Duncans,quot; I can assure you.

The bridge pickup is a high-output ceramic magnet model. If yours has no punch to it, you might have a defective pickup. But before you pull it out, have you checked the pickup height?

^ These are the Duncan Designed pickups that come stock in the Ibanez SZ series. I don't think the pickups are defective, I just don't think they're any good. I had similar Duncan Designed Pickups in my Jackson KV3 and they were similar.

ship me the bridge pup. i'll take it off your hands.