Dimarzio Crunch Lab (DP228) vs. Seymour Duncan Custom (SH-5)
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Comparing the Crunch Lab to the Duncan Custom in the bridge position of the same guitar, an ESP Horizon NT II with maple neck-through and mahogany wings. LePou amp sims with various impulses. DI Files: http://lunahelia.com/LunaBox/crunchlab_customSH5.zip The Crunch Lab is smoother and more "polite" in the mids, slight more compressed, bigger thumpier low end. Custom has meaner mids (1.6k bump), sharper djentier highs, tighter lows. Crunch Lab sounds more open and neutral, has better cleans. Custom cuts better. Which do you prefer?
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I like the Crunch Lab is smoother than the Custom clean. The Custom has a bit of a ice picky high end sound that bugs me a little clean. They both sound good distorted but I like the Crunch lab thickness more than the mid freq honk of the Custom. It's not as bad as the JB but still has the honk.
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Good video.
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Dimarzio owned seymours
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Just ordered a crunch lab. Thanks for the video review.
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I love the crunch labs they are sooooo clear
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after having had both in my 7, i feel like they were both great but very different, the custom was much more trebley and could get ice picky whereas the crunchlab was much darker and fatter
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nazghul beats both
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To my ears Crunch Lab has more clarity. It's especially apparent when played with distortion
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Crunch Lab totally wins for my taste... thanks buddy, your video made me make up my mind ;)
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Basswood w/ maple top. Played through Vox AC30 w/ Maxon OD808. Crunch Lab or Breed bridge?
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Remarkable how close these 2 pickups are to each other. At times they sound exactly a like. Other times there are small warmth differences in the Crunch Lab having a slightly warmer tone. But the Crunch Lab to me is just a tad clearer. Not like night and day but ever so slight. In a band mix this difference would not be heard. You would never know the difference between the 2. But at home studying the differences, you can hear just a tab better overall sound out of the Crunch Lab to me.
Funny 2 as I'm a die hard SD pickup guy. This makes me re think that. -
Duncan SH-5 is fatter but less clarity...DiMarzio CrunchLab has nice clarity to it; if you like that. I am interested in a 7 string passive pickup I think...I dunno :(
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thanks for this video tom.. imho, crunchlab very clear.. very scooped mids.. custom 5 has a bluesy feel. you can hear the mids pop out.. two very good pups
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Hmmm I'd say the Dimarzio sounded better for the clean work but the Duncan sounded better for the distortion that's just me
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do you have comparison video about crunch lab vs d sonic?
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Crunch Lab sounds a lot muddier than the SH-5 to me. The CL is definitely darker overall. Not good or bad. They're just clearly very different pups.
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stock Squier pickups are better
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Dimarzio sounds better in my opinion, sounds like there is more headroom in the cleans and the distortion is really slappy, get slapp'd
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in this video, to my old ears it sounded like the crunch lab pickup was louder and clearer. I'm totally bias, I have duncans and dimarzios in two different guitars and they both sound great. I think any guitar sounds great with both in it as long as you engineer the amp and effects to get the tone you want. the real issue is convenience and cost.
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thank you for test
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