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What have your experiences been with Invaders?

I've experienced some great things with Invaders in both the neck and bridge position, in my personal experience, I think an Invader neck is the best match with an Invader Bridge.
anyway it worked great when I had a Marshall and a Crate solid state combo amps.
With my hot rod deluxe the Invader was too bassy, so I swapped it with a JB and now it's sings, screams, and anything else I want it to.

Invader is a good pick-up just a little too much on the low end (sometimes)

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They are super thick and have a lot of low end. I think they sound great in alder, ash or maple body guitars. I have found that they get really muddy when used with super low tunnings and Dark wood bodies--like Mahogany.

I would say it's a great rhythm pickup for punk rock and metal.

I'm sure someone else can tell you more about it.

Fat and powerful, with a very distinctive tone, nothing else sounds like an invader IMO. Definately primarily a rhythm pickup, for heavy rhythms in metal/punk stuff i don't think it can be beat. However it does have very dull and lifeless cleans and isn't usually considered much of a lead pickup.

It is a fantastic pickup in lighter guitars, like Jimmy said. One of my favorite SD's.

It is a stong enough pickup where they only make one for all string spacing. If you are a treble freak, look elsewhere.

It has a certain cut and clarity about it in brighter bodied guitars. The best way I can describe the tone is that it has a somewhat grindy character to it, like the new Lamb of God album, Ashes of the Wake(I'm not sure if they used invaders on the studio, but I can nail that tone with my 5150 and an invader) Don't let Tom Delonge fool you, it's for more than brainless pop-punk music.

my Invader absolutely rumbles. Awesome rhythm pickup. Whoever said the cleans suck is on crack. I can get an almost acoustic-like tone with my Invader paired with my '59. Great pickup, very bold, powerful. TONS of low-end heavy distortion

BOLD, Fat and Huge!!! It is not my personal choice becasue I like tons of clarity and usually more treble in my pickups but, I find it works best with a treble bleed capacitor (.001mf) across the 1st and 2nd lugs of the volume pot. It brightnes it up just a tad. Nothing sounds like it and I have never played a pickup thats sounds as HUGE as one.

A couple years ago, I got two pretty old non-logoed Invaders and put them in a Jackson Kelly (it was either poplar or alder), and they rocked! I didn't think they were muddy at all, and they sounded pretty good clean as well. They definitely have a lot of low mids and bass punch!

I've used them in SGs and Deans. They're monstrous sounding. In the Dean, I bypassed the tone control, so the output goes straight to the jack. My bass player told me that it sounded like the amp was going to explode the first time he heard it. In the SGs, it makes them huge. I like to match the bridge Invaders with a lower output pickup like a '59, so I have a wide tonal variation.

^^ agreed, together the '59 and Invader sound damn near to an acoustic clean.