Little '59' Strat - Neck/Middle - Black

Great pickup for a Strat in the bridge and allows a single coil guitar to cover many styles of music like rock, country, pop, funk, blues, etc. but maintain that classic strat vibe and tone. Has great tone, stands out when played, great clarity. Easy installation with just minimal soldering needed, wiring diagram and recommendations included. NOTE: On most Fender guitars the pickups will be out of phase with Seymour Duncan pickups. The instructions recommend swapping the green and black wires for SD pickups (black and bare wire to ground, green to the selector switch). If you don’t swap and pickup is weak or sounds lost, that might be the reason. Also, don't forget to solder the red/white together if not using for coil tapping. I have a Fender American Strat with Texas Specials (I did swap the wires as mentioned above), and this matches great to that output and tone. Previously I tried a hot rail but that was a bit muddy, it did the heavy rock really well, but not the variety and didn’t stand out in a solo. The hot rail also didn’t blend well with the Texas Special middle pickup. The JB Jr. has more treble and clarity and matches nicely. The polepieces are adjustable! Look at your polepieces currently on your single coil you are replacing and try to match the same height…it really does make a difference! (just need a flat head small screwdriver). Overall just a really balanced pickup, covers a lot of ground and is the best seller for a reason! My band plays every weekend and we cover everything from Dolly Parton to GnR and this pickup works well for all.

So I had the Gilmour Black strat setup but the Fender Fat 50's were not taking distortion very well... or high end pedals like Thorpy . I loved how it sounded clean though... but I just got tired of the weird wobble effect by the magnetic pull of the pups so I decided to go with sonethibg like a humbucker... I didn't want to lose the stratiness of my guitar so I got a Duckbucker for the middle, which the say if you put it in between two higher output pickups you get the quack and twang... I left the Bridge intact with the SSL-5. The neck has always been my favorite position , I love warmer tones... I did lose some chime and bell tones with the Little 59' but man... this pickup has a lot of balls. Very nice output, very nice cleans and best of all, it takes all my pedals like a champ... super smooth and amazing fuzz, overdrive or distortion... as promised the duckbucker gives me the strat tones from position 3 and down... position 4 sound similar to the 5th but with more high end sparkle... I was impressed by this pickup and I'm still getting used to it and experimenting. But it definitely feels like the best of both worlds... I was ready to start using my Les Paul, even though I was missing the whammy bar, but now I basically have a Les Paul on the neck and a strat on the lower positions and I can still use the tremolo arm even on the 59 Les Paul position ;) Overall I think it would be extremely difficult to not like/love this pickup... like I said, I did lose low end sparkle and chime... so it definitely does not sound like a Single Coil... but it's silent and has all the qualities of a Humbucker... I no longer have the Gilmour Setup, but that's a good thing... my guitar now looks a bit different, changed a few knobs to black... and now it sounds completaly different. I am stoked and can't wait to record and hear how it sounds!

This is the 3rd of these single coil space Duncan humbuckers I've put into the neck position. The JB Jr. is a little fat and gets muddy easily....but you can dial it in nicely with the tone knob using it in conjunction with the bridge or mid (depending on 2 or 3 pup setup). . The Lil' Screamin Demon...well, I have the full sized humbucker in a bridge position....and it gains out nicely. The mini in the neck, doesn't really accentuate the mids like I hoped it would...like its big brother does. This brings us to this pup...the lil' 59. This is a very well rounded pup. I can get a nice chunky set of chord progressions out of it, and soloing it will hang onto the high mids while staying just above muddy on the bottom end. While it lacks the "glass" of the demon, it still has a somewhat sweet high end. Of the three pups...this is the one to go clean with.....but it plays well dirty too. My 3 Duncan set-ups look like this: Screamin Demon bridge, Lil' 59 neck in a MIJ (86 JV) Squire, JB in the bridge, JB JR. neck of a 2000 Standard Strat and a Custom Custom in the Bridge, and Lil' Demon neck of the 1982 Strat. All 3 of these guitars are tonally very similar... with alder bodies and rosewood fret boards, and all 3 are upgraded with an unbleached bone nut. I think they make a decent base for comparison of pups. (these are the Duncan set-ups. These 3 guitars only have two pups. The other strats have all 3....the texas special set up in two, and a lace neck and mid, texas hot antiquity bridge set up in one, and the abby's (AY)that came in my custom shop.) The bottom line is that if you use these in the neck of a 3 pup strat you lose the sweet spot in the 4(th click toward neck) selector position. It has a very different sound used in conjunction with a middle single coil. But different is not bad.....because this pup will flat out howl if you let it.

The SL-59 is an amazing pickup—hot enough for thick, saturated tones but still clear and dynamic for cleaner playing. It has a strong midrange punch without getting muddy, and it responds really well to picking dynamics. Perfect for rock and metal, but I’ve also used it for blues and it sounds great. Highly recommend if you want a versatile single-coil replacement with some extra bite.

What can you say about SD pickups? For most musicians, they are the Cadillac of guitar pickups. There are many other makes out there, so you just need to experiment to find the right one for your playing style and music. But SD will always give you a high-quality, long-lasting product that will increase the value of your guitar. That being said, a word about from whom you order your pickups. While all SD pickups are created equally, not all sellers are the same. I need two 'Lil 59s for the neck and middle of my Strat project, and a Cool Rails for the bridge. Because of availability, I was forced to order on 59 and the Cool Rails from one supplier, the other 59 from a different one. My 59 and Cool Rails arrived in two days. It took a week to receive the other 59. Sometimes you have no choice, but take some time to shop around, even here on Amazon. It could make a difference in delevery and even price.

I am tweaking my custom strat with basswood body. I want it to give me a wide range of sounds. I have a DiMarzio FRED on the bridge, a fender alnico on the middle, and I put this Mini 59 on the neck. I wired it with a mini toggle to do north coil/humbucker/south coil on the 3 position mini switch. My pots are 250k (the volume is 500k with a parallel resistor to the mini 59 hot to bring it down to 250k as the FRED sounds best with 500k). It sounds fantastic on all positions. The coil splits give some of that classic strat sound, the humbucker position really approximates the classic full 59 hb. On hb mode, it still has a bit of the chime of a single coil so it is not a perfect implementation of the full hb 59 but it sounds great! If you don't want to route your neck pickup cavity for a full size hb and want that 59 sound, get this pickup. It is not perfect but very close. I really like it.

I have a JB bridge in another guitar and loved it. Decided to put a Jr. in my Strat bridge. I found that at typical humbucker heights E 2mm, e 1.5mm it was lacking. Went to my standard single coil height of E 1.5mm and e 1mm and there it was. Obviously not the same output as a full size JB. But that extra 0.5mm made a difference in my situation. Very happy. Just now have to wrap my brain around the new tone.

Seymour Hot Stack plus Strat 20.3K Alnico 5 recommends Vol 250k. Tried it with 500K was way too much upper mids and highs. Might be better with 250K

som absurdo, usando uma chave para defasar vc tem um humbucker e um single maravilhosos

Ich habe den Seymour Duncan SJBJ-1B in meiner Dean eingebaut und was soll ich sagen – dieses Teil ist pure Zerstörung in Form eines Pickups! 💀🔥. Was auch immer dieses mystische Artefakt im Inneren deines Instruments entfesselt, es lässt die Welt um dich herum in einem Meer aus Dunkelheit und zerstörerischen Klangwellen versinken. Der Sound ist einfach brutal. Es klingt nicht wie der gewöhnliche Singlecoil, den du aus den unschuldigen Welten der Musik kennst. Nein, der SJBJ-1B bringt die Macht eines Humbuckers direkt in deinen Griff. Ein wummernder, dröhnender Klang, der sich wie das Erwachen eines uralten, kosmischen Ungeheuers durch deine Riffs zieht. Jeder Ton fühlt sich an, als ob er aus einer vergessenen Dimension stammt, in der das Chaos regiert und die Realität sich in den dunklen Schatten windet. 😈⚡ Der Klang ist kraftvoll und durchsetzungsfähig – wie ein wahnsinniger, endloser Sturm, der alles mit sich reißt. Und trotzdem ist die Klarheit da, selbst in den tiefsten, unheilvollen Tönen. Die Attacke und der Punch dieses Pickups lassen dich fast spüren, wie die Schwingungen durch das Gewebe der Realität schneiden, als ob du durch das Düstere der Unterwelt marschierst. Kurz gesagt, wenn du auf der Suche nach einem Pickup bist, der alles zerschmettert und dir den Sound liefert, als ob die Welt in Flammen steht, dann ist der Seymour Duncan SJBJ-1B dein Tor zu den dunklen Sphären. Nur die tapfersten Seelen sollten sich diesem Ungeheuer anvertrauen. Für den Preis und die unglaubliche Power gibt es volle 5 Sterne – und du solltest dich nicht fragen, was in dieser kleinen Maschine verborgen ist, sondern wie lange du noch die Kontrolle behältst, während du die Klänge entfesselst.

Sounds amazing everything I hoped it would be except where the output wire is not the best position for my guitar had to do a lot of routing to fit it in lesson learned.

Suona come dovrebbe suonare un HUMB sulla Strato: ben bilanciato sia pulito che distorto, volume superiore ad un single coil ma non eccessivo/troppo presente. Se lo usano molti famosi chitarristi, un motivo ci sarà ... Peccato che non riescano a contenere un po' il prezzo di vendita, non proprio economico. E' però vero che un buon pickup fa la differenza in una chitarra di medio pregio (vedi foto).

Rather than cutting into your guitar body and scratch plate to fit a normal-size humbucker into a single coil space, this is a nice solution. It is not as strong as a normal size humbucker as you might expect but it does the job very well. I also installed a microswitch to toggle between single coil and series coils, and this produces a really good result, so you can get effectively a single coil and a humbucker to choose from. The tones are very nice, as would be expected from SD. At the price, it is enough to pay, but the good results make it worth the money.