Duncan Solar PLUS! - New Pickup

[@BalashToth]

It would be great to have the Duncan Solar PUs available separately in the Solar page. Just an idea :)

[@AlainChatlut]

Good idea

[@ThatMFShawnzy]

This!

[@jamesfindice2871]

Not going to happen. He will sell more guitars by keeping it this way

[@Metal_Auditor]

I agree.

[@nicholastotoro7721]

There is likely a US equivalent, much like how the Duncan Solar is very similar to the Custom 5.

[@MaxSxB]

I like the OG Duncan Solar more, sounds more "open" to me, less boxy mids. Proof that pickups are really a matter of taste :)

[@WhatGrenadeWhere]

"Proof that pickups are really a matter of taste." Agreed. 100%

[@bluwng]

Pickups that are to specific limit you. Example, low output twangy single coil can do one thing well but only that one thing. Unless you play on one genre or need the instrument for only that one tone, then it’s OK. A professional metal guitarist probably doesn’t need a versatile pickup. I would say most people need versatility.

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

You know what would be awesome? If you could try a pickup before you buy it. Just as you can try guitars you're willing to purchase. Wishful thinking, sadly.

[@Bru741iX]

​@@Cthulhu_Awaken I get what you're saying, but there are so many X vs Y comparison and discussion on the web that you can easily get lots of info about what different pickups sound like. It's also important to note that just because Ola can make these pickups sound one way, you can make them sound different. Yes, pickups adds a lot of character to the tone, but YOUR tone is ultimately because of how you play, plus whichever amp you're using.

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

@@Bru741iX I guess a new pickup is kind of a jump in the dark, you can gather as many infos as you can on the web to give you a clue... Even if you could try it beforehand the sound coming through your own guitar and amp/software is a different variable.

[@Slyness64209]

I love how you can totally hear that the amp is slightly more driven with the + version, it pushes a lil harder on the tubes, which is the sound I personally prefer for Metal, I like a tone that makes you think the amp is fucking agonizing and screaming in pain lol

[@Abukhaled640]

hi can u help me whats the riff name in minute 1:50 he always plays it and its awesome

[@joshmorlan6141]

Of course Ola, I just ordered myself a V-1.6 Canabalismo this afternoon and you have to go making these other choices better!!? LOL. Seriously, I went back and forth on what Solar to buy, took my time, but definitely wanted a V style badass looking guitar. And I'm so happy and proud that finally (at age 47) I ordered my dream Solar guitar!!! I can't wait to unbox it!! If it weren't for finding you on KZbin a couple years ago, I wouldn't be pacing the floor waiting for this guitar. You've inspired me to play guitar more than ever, along with my teenage sons and even my wife occasionally! Next order will be a pink Solar for her too! Have a great weekend everyone!😃🤘🤘

[@rickbrunet2559]

Wow you can actually here the more brightness. Sounds great!!!!

[@olafburgermann806]

...and the winner is... the amp Both sound good, just comes down to personal preference. I prefer the standard as I am more into classic rock and metal.

[@KakuraZenom]

Some clean would have been nice to hear too, but I am glad to see more diversity in the pickups :D Nice

[@solarfallmori]

Sounds great but, what about some new ceramics for the most aggressive stuff? 🔥🔥🔥

[@theeffyskateshop]

Nice way to be a lot more versatile and giving us more options thanks bro

[@markwallace8995]

I have the Seymour Duncan Alternative 8 in the bridge of my guitar and I love it! I would assume that the Solar Plus is similar since they both have the kind of magnet.

[@NobotyBoi]

Nope

[@IStabz]

YES!! Love the room Ola!! Great sounding pup's as well!!

[@marioduron4376]

That is cool. I ordered Seymour Duncan pickups for a twelve string strat body kit project I am planning.

[@Birdfinger]

Any chance you'll make just the pickups available for purchase?

[@Girzzlyঐু]

The new plus pickups sound fantastic! I like the sound of the OG, but these new ones would fit my style a lot more. Great stuff

[@Andromahlius]

Solar guitars are following the Street Fighter Model. The 2030 lineup will likely include a A1.6 V II Turbo ' Plus model.

[@bandit3062]

will the pickups be sold separately?

[@denverrandy7143]

I love that translucent red,I saw a Solar trans blue on Reverb for 800$ yesterday,me wants!!!👍🔥🤘 Thanks Ola!!!

[@ArnulfVonMetz1]

The Duncan 5 always wins

[@tusharjamwal]

will the pickups be available for purchase?

[@acutemadness]

That’s like black album tone with mids

[@jeremyrafuse5330]

Alnico 5 magnets just a tighter response. A lot of clarity. Alnico 8 sounds a bit muddied

[@silentshred5483]

Nice work Ola , this pup adds some Flavor ; )

[@Nickdoomofficial]

You can hear that extra bite in the plus. If they were sold separately I’d stick one in my A1.6.

[@dokterkarel]

sounds really high output!

[@johngregory7329]

Hello Ola, You have got to be one of the coolest guys in the Rock world. This is coming from a 69 year old Rock Bass player from Munster Indiana. U.S.A. Also please tell your wife that she plays bass excellent. Both of you make a great couple.

[@taylorwyatt333]

Ola!!! the clapping swede, killing it again

[@strikebackstudios7592]

What if I want just the pickups.. so I can throw them onto my solars I already bought? Are these going to be available independently.. sold separately?

[@harshtruth9148]

I saw a sustainiac in that compilation video u did….what’s up with that?

[@Xaion6]

Sounds like a JB and a Distortion had a baby! Not as gloomy as Black Winters get, love the pink dynamics from the Solar+ too! Makes me want that to not mess with and ill buy a 2 series Solar to mod

[@irubberyouglueonethousand5384]

Alnico 5 like the SD JB model. My favorite.

[@NorgGrimm]

Sounds thicker, a bit more compressed but still retains a good clarity for chugging.

[@Astaroth_Belial]

Hey Ola, I gotta say - these duncan solar pickups are not cutting it for a lot of us metal players, I’m consistently seeing comments about these not being “metal enough”. I think the duncan distortion would be a better default option.

[@NobotyBoi]

nOt PoPuLaR wItH mEtAL PlAYErs....didn't know we was still in High School...grow up...leave the herd

[@LordOfSweden]

whine

[@Astaroth_Belial]

@@LordOfSwedenIronically, the butthurt whiners are the ones responding to my initial comment lmfao.

[@Ambitiouz_mindset]

I really want to get the artist bop ab 1.6 artist ltd but I feel I'll order 1 and then a new version with the plus pickup will release

[@vincentrandles8105]

My ears are so beat-up from years of loud metal guitar, I can barely hear a difference! And what I can perceive is so slight that I can't see myself getting the new pups in my old Solar! (I do plan to get one of the Solar V's, so maybe you'll have em for that model by then...)😁

[@johnmorris4210]

Do for see having your guitars in major US store’s ? Congratulations on your success and wish you continued success with your guitar lineup!!! Your the greatest dude ever John from Dallas

[@miguelangelsarmientotoro9667]

Selling separately or only can have access through buying the guitars that have em installed? Cheers

[@Darth.Shredder]

Nice upgrade for sure

[@nickbuchanan958]

I actually love it. Even with just a hot signal it would sound great

[@ChanceTheChancenator]

Holy shit, this new pickup melts my face!

[@chrisd3501]

Great to see the brand expanding even more. New pup sounds real good 👍

[@davidannett3322]

did you get a new cam? this video qual looks so good

[@bryanmchugh1307]

The new PUP sounds great! What is the 12th fret inlay on Solar Guitars supposed to be?

[@andybungert]

OLA! I notice that this was all bridge pickup for this video. Is there also a neck pickup Duncan Solar Plus? Did not know if it was just the bridge pickup (which makes sense for hot alnico 8) or if it is a set (no idea if 8 would be too hot for a neck pickup). Thank you!

[@juliangruber]

Congrats on the new pickup! Sounds massively aggressive. I think it would be great to see another comparison video: One where you change the amp gain so that both pickups produce similarish amounts of gain, and that way you can better here what sound you prefer, because just getting more gain is usually not the problem.

[@xavierc8383]

Sounds awesome, I wonder how it sounds clean

[@theonegoose]

Gotta say there aren't really any alnico 8s in extended range floating around. Really cool to see you having one in the proprietary design

[@H.E.A.R.T.o.f.S.T.E.E.L]

HI Bro.. SOLAR GUITARS ARE SO GREAT.. but i really waiting for the FIRST: SOLAR 7 STRING TREMOLO SYSTEM = HEADLESS GUITAR check that BRÖÖÖÖ :D

[@colecousineau5423]

The Solar plus sounds much clear, you can hear each individual note much better and it is slightly stronger

[@seankerrigan1627]

Nice guitars... sort of. I'm putting some emg, 60 and an 81, into a a1.7rop and one of the screws holding in the front pickup was at a 30 degree angle, well maybe 15 degrees, which meant I basically had to drill the head off of it to even get the pickup out. I mean okay, it's a factory line and occasionally things will go wrong so I go to the site, not that I want anything, no rewards or credits or whatever, so much I just want to let you know and bugger me what a huge amount of info I've got to fill out just to be heard. As for the pickups, alnico 5's, I reckon I'm going to try them with neodymium, pull them apart, well the bridge one at 16k (as the neck at 9k might be a real nice lap steel pickup!) as the density of the flux of neodenium really likes bass and too kinda adds some nice breakup with the trebles. I'd suggest, with such high DCR you might wanna try the rare earths. Oh, and could you please wax most of the screws at the factory... they're going to be a total ass to pull apart in a few years time.

[@joeee777]

would love a duncan solar ceramic bridge

[@NunSuperior]

You can really notice the Plus gain compressing a lot more.

[@hesh_138]

any plans on releasing bass pickups for purchase? like, i don't know, the active solar teslas in the ab2.4c maybe?

[@piptyson5512]

The Plus sounds like it's more of a modern style for metal with the mids. Nice option!

[@t_separator]

Alnico 8 is great. The transparency of a alnico 5 and the agression of ceramic combined

[@TheKorgborg]

will there ever be a solar dime bucker inspired pickup?

[@garrettpiatt9958]

Nice a want a 7 stringer from y’all !

[@shawnreese6538]

I agree, the PLus has a little more air, and depth. It's better.

[@scoliewood]

Pickups sound awesome and the videos look so much sharper in 4K. 🤘😎🤘

[@majorlee1]

I like the Duncan Solar pick ups. I am a huge JB and 59 fan but have not felt the need to change the pickups on any of my Solar guitars 🤘

[@stevenarseneault1972]

I can't s3ems to edit my comment on my tablet to add but.... I'm curious to hear what Solar plus sounds like with the volume on the guitar turned back a bit. Another test woukd be to back the pickup away from the strings a bit to hear if it adds definition. which one do you think will cut better through a mix for leads.... the original Solar. Solar plus sounds to me to fit best with a rhytmn player or songs that is more power chord rhytmn oriented playing.

[@blaeden]

Holy shmoley, I'm really tempted to get that 6 string next time I'm shopping...

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

But how do the new pups handle cleans? Will you have to consider the higher output when doing a Will it Chug, or when testing pedals etc, as the higher output would push things that little bit more, which could be drastically different with lower output pups.

[@Abukhaled640]

someone tell me whats the name of the riff in minute 1:50?

[@danitwisted7300]

can you buy only the pickup? I want a change for my 7 string anyway

[@toneconsultant]

Ola missed something that was very important about these pickups. Are they active or passive?

[@andiwaow3327]

Duncan solar plus sound kick ass

[@matforsbon]

That SOLAR sound WOW!

[@stevenarseneault1972]

My opinion...you know what they say..... I liked the clarity and definition of the Duncan Solar with heavy distortion. Not so much on a crunch setting as they lack a high output and when I found out a Solar plus was out I got my hopes up. I was hoping it was a Duncan Solar with a hotter output but instead they made it with more low end and cut the mids. Sorta balanced on EQ but meh. I think the original Duncan Solar is what works best for me but just need to boost the signal and possibly the amp. Reminds me of the XL500 Bill Lawrence pickups in that respect. The Duncan Solar plus pickup is heavy sounding but it's hard to produce frequencies naturally when they are not naturally there. I'm all over the place right now choosing a pickup for my Ibanez RG1570. Stock V8's are ok but not that hot. I broke it down to Seymour Duncan Custo m 5 ( not hot enough), Bareknuckles nailbomb (midsey perhaps too much), Doug Aldrich Suhr, Blackfire Immortal and finally Duncan Solar. Duncan Solar pickups made my list because they speak.....like a human voice.

[@luken9263]

I bought a 1.6aan recently and basically all i'm playing is Tresspass. Although you do it a lot better than me!

[@guitarrilho502]

What about the X type guitar? I'm very curious

[@zvonimirbaljak76]

i have new S 1.7C+ and solar duncan+ have some strange hum and noise when i play guitar. why?

[@mylogify]

Sounded beautiful. I wonder a comparison between Duncan Distortions with the Plus. By the way I am practicing your 14 Days Alternate Picking challenge exercise!

[@zomielastaroth4956]

SD Distortion is ceramic and Solar pickups are alnico. The Plus is just a little more hotter than the regular Solar pickup.

[@mylogify]

@@zomielastaroth4956 thank you

[@mathias6423]

@@zomielastaroth4956 So both solar pickups are passive pickups ?

[@thechannelforeverything2170]

Man in that low tuning the DSP sounds evil. Great demo.

[@Dirge4july]

Need a hybrid ceramic and alnico 8 solar pickup.

[@mathias6423]

So both the Solar pickups are passive pickups ?

[@ChrisRash]

Is the neck pickup different also?

[@mrjoe9308]

Is the solar + a "rebadged" SH15 ?

[@dougiedrever7168]

they going to be available to buy on their own?

[@marcmays4227]

When will the Solar HU20118GTA99-00IYCpCo272BOL be coming out?

[@HugoWelti]

The new pickup has a cool upper mid voicing going on.

[@denverrandy7143]

Sweet!!!Hell yea!!!🤘🔥👍

[@Georgehabash0]

The problem is.. is mesa cabinet really clean or there’s a trick that your guitar tone is clean with a condenser microphone?

[@hamtheman222]

Yes.

[@plumbummusic2051]

For the 6string I prefer the sound of the solar plus pickups. Not because it's hotter, but it has more top end sizzle to them. Always thought the original duncan solars lacked that, which made them sound kinda dry and tame (to my preference, anyway). Not sure about the 7string, I always thought they worked fine for that.

[@toneconsultant]

The "hotter" part is what makes the more top end.

[@plumbummusic2051]

@@toneconsultant agreed, but bringing the gain up with the og duncan solar would also add mud which you would have to filter with an overdrive/clean boost, that is not the case with the plus.

[@nicholastotoro7721]

Is this like the Alternative 8?

[@amirtak9886]

Can't wait to get a solar once I got some money saved up.

[@Kudabear1]

does anyone have a tip about how to get more juice out of the original? i bought ab1.7htpb i love the colour so much and no other guitar has it other than fishman fluence one and im kind bummed abt the lower output sound :(

[@carljustinemorales2037]

Whoah.. The diff.. As if you stomp on a overdrive pedal

[@denverrandy7143]

The "Plus" has more of an oompfh with attack!!!

[@Malum09]

Nice tone

[@AlexRG8]

As always sounds insanely thuggish 🔥🎸🔥

[@joeylizotte7537]

You need a Solar pickup with blades!

[@redvinter]

Really need to sell the Solar pickups separately. I have two A2.6s and would love to have the Plus pups in one and the OGs in the other...

[@inexorable7266]

Used this same style guitar on our album. Would be tits to have the Duncan plus. Someday dude!

[@jasoncrump1886]

Well it's about time to buy another Solar . Guess I'll be getting one with the new pickup this summer. Also probably get a baritone at some point. Appreciate ya Ola.

[@guitarz]

so cool to see the way your company evolves... kinds like a guitar player knows what other guitar payers want maybe?? IDK either way I dig it

[@TrashMojo]

Ola hear me out a T style 7 string with a Floyd rose and HS pickup configuration. All love from the states

[@felipefernandes000]

1:30 That is a song? What is the name?

[@6628guitarhero]

Plus seems slightly scooped in the mid range

[@nazarf1884]

Is duncan solar made in usa?i found less information about this pickup