Seymour Duncan Dimebucker Review/ How to Install

This video is a review over the mighty Seymour Duncan Dimebucker pickups. I capture a before and after preview to emphasize on the amazing sustain and tone these pickups have to offer, while also showing a tutorial on how to install them.
Gear I'm using in video:
-EVH 5150iii 50 watt head
-Randall 4X12 cabinet
-Shure sm57 mic
-Dimebag Darrell "Dean From Hell" guitar
Backing track is "20/20 Vision" and can be found on my soundcloud at this link: / 2020-vision

[@speedpower2740]

That's a massive difference, sounds a lot less muddy on high gain. That's awesome, I'm planning to buy a Dean with a Dimebucker already installed.

[@chriscrooks8617]

I’ve installed a FLEOR rail Humbucker with 0.022uf capacitor and it sounds the same as the bill Lawrence

[@georgemitchellson635]

this video was HILARIOUS guys 🤣🤣 had me geekin the whole time !!

[@LottimusMaximus]

Probably the best dimebucker review out there! Ordered the set. And a Randall 1503. Lol.

[@DRDINOMEOW]

Coulda just removed the springs from the back mate. Then just removed the bridge with strings attached still. Saving mass amounts of time. ;)

[@bohdilama]

This was awesome, comedy and pickup install all in one.🤘

[@a-circling-sol]

The Drill test helped me diagnose a dead EMG "select" pickup. Thanks for the tip! On the note of drunk ordering things, I just drunk ordered a dimebucker off ebay.

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

Dude I'm happy to help that means a lot thank you! and you won't be disappointed I promise! The Dimebucker's slap!

[@EothaG]

I just lightly tap the pickup poles with a screwdriver. Works well. Drill test sounds fun though

[@kaiserwilhelm1938]

That is an order you won't regret.

[@aidab7258]

Thank you sooo much for this!!! I was so confused on these diagrams I had no idea what I was doing. I was finally able to put some xl500 in this CBK! Thanks again! Took me all afternoon to find just a simple " how to". Great video.

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

well thank you so much for the compliment and I'm super glad it was helpful!

[@MartRockCafe]

That pickup is a beast, great video dudes, sending love from the u.k 🤘

[@av.punk.801]

You can tell the Duncs are doing 2 big things. More bass response, less "gain-mud". These seem like opposite things, but in reality, you need a really tight balance of trebble and bass to get clear gain, and in my experience, Duncs capture that perfectly every time.

[@anthonymanuel2911]

14:09 Dayum!!! 14:17 damn.

[@Rob62655]

Bill Lawrence L500XL and Seymour Duncan Dimebucker are 2 different pickups. The Chinese version shouldve came with a real Seymour Duncan Dimebucker SH13. BTW Dime used a B.L in that guitar.

[@airmanpalmer]

Not the older ones

[@guitarnic972]

So you swapped the Bill Lawrence in the bridge for a Dimebucker because the Bill Lawrence isn't a "real" Dimebag pickup? :D

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

Not necessarily, it isn't my guitar it's a good friend of mines. He preferred to have the Seymour Duncan set as oppose to the Bill Lawrence set. It wasn't just the bridge I swapped out I swapped the neck as well. I must say though after playing both the Bill Lawrence and the Seymour Duncan's I preferred the Seymour's. They had a lot more sustain time and more of a crisp sound.

[@eemilhilden4202]

ITS funny because first dean from hell that Dime did with dean had the bill lawrence

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

@Shaun Ashley I know that Bill Lawrence pickups were in the original Dimebag, like I stated in the video this wasn't my guitar and from my friend's (the owner) description, he told me it was a corny Chinese knock off. So I figured the "Bill Lawrence" pickup that was in it was a knock off as well. Which I really felt like it was, if you didn't get a chance to listen to the before and after you should to see what I mean.

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

@@eemilhilden4202 You're absolutely right, but this isn't the first dean from hell, it is a Chinese rip off with a rip of the Bill Lawrence pickup, hence why we swapped them out.

[@zachledbetter7747]

This is my guitar and I’ll 100% positive that it wasn’t even a real bill Lawrence to begin with so no, we aren’t idiots little boy. What does it matter to you what I put in MY guitars anyways?

[@gameroftheyear1000]

That’s quite the handsome Rolex Datejust on your wrist, got a submariner myself. Also I’ve got to say I prefer the Bill Lawrence over the Dimebucker, but that might be due to I’ve played Washburn N4’s for sometime which Nuno Bettencourt uses the L500XL in the bridge.

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

Thank you friend! I am a big Yngwie Malmsteen fan and have always wanted a Rolex like his. As far as the Bill Lawrence pickup I haven't any experience. This was my friends guitar he wanted me to modify. I had no issues with the Bill Lawrence pickups that were in them (sound wise, disassembling them was what was hard) I just preferred the Seymour Duncans in the end, but my playing and my style are different than most and so are my demands in pickups so I am totally positive that the Bill Lawrence works for people a lot better than they did for me! Thanks again for the feedback!

[@Baz97__]

@@thekrakenstudio4186 Say, you aren't selling that Bill Lawrence are you?

[@1nfidelCastr0]

Not the best production value but hey, entertaining and informative. You earned my sub 👍

[@ceef8688]

10:50 man I am so stressed. So the Dimebag signature faces the bridge?? I put it facing the neck. And I didn't have the instruction sheet, so I wired it based on some pdf about general duncan pickups, and it just makes a loud hum. I think I have red and white tied off as the ground, green and silver going into an improvised solder sludge on the pot, and black soldered to the tone switch. I hope to watch this video closer and be able to figure out the wiring, and hell, whether I need to unscrew the pickup itself and turn it around.

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

Hey! Did you ever get it figured out? I'm sorry I'm just now reading this, it sounds like a grounding issue, the green or silver should be the ground and if you still got issues I'd be more than happy to FaceTime you and figure it out if you got an IG or FB or Twitter!

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

wait now that I'm thinking about it silver should be hot like your "black" when there is black and red in the diagram and green is usually ground. It's been so long since I've done this vid I'm sorry lol anyways if you got a social media DM me at j_cubhughes and I'll for sure get linked up and help you out my friend even if we gotta learn together lol

[@ceef8688]

@@thekrakenstudio4186 you are kind! And correct! I did get it figured out. My guitar had an unsightly blob of solder on the 3rd lug which connected somewhat to the pot. I thought it was a sloppy mistake, but it was the ground. When I soldered 1/2 inch of wire from the new pot's 3rd lug to itself, the pickup became dead quiet! However, though it sounds good, kind of screechy, I'm not sure if the orientation of the pickup itself matters (dimebag signature upright toward the neck) because I bought it on craigslist with no instructions. I might screw it down a little more if I need to ease the high end.

[@rkh7169]

Being a Chinese made guitar are those even 500k pots? I’d pull those as well and get even more out of it.

[@MrStarlight1980]

these are shitty mini pots - i changed them as well

[@FODVAPOR]

Good shit fellas, just picked up a dean dimeslime ml......found this vid. Thanks bros --> Black tooth grins all around?

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

thanks so much my friend!

[@fernandocordero293]

“I’m so high” lol

[@chriscrooks8617]

Yeah the guitars are awesome but they also put in a neck pickup that the together wrong Dime had his neck pickup cream bobbin up not down.

[@chriscrooks8617]

Also if I had a chance to get the Dean from hell would have put what he had in his a Bill Lawrence L-500XL not a dimebucker.

[@sicmojo268]

is the bridge pickup installed upside down?

[@edwardbinion7485]

Just installed the DimeBag into a 1989 Zion...it was originally equipped w/Tom Anderson pickups. About 18 years ago I put in a Seymour Duncan GL Screaming Demon. After I got it all setup, stringed and tuned...plugged in and I found it to be very high in mid range, lacking in treble and bass was okay. My Music Man JP 15 has a much more even spectrum voicing w/more crunch. Is that cause of materials (wood) or are those pickups that different? should I connect in series or Parallel

[@dimehbonics9974]

GETCHAPULL!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@TheGodkilla]

Funny & informative haha! This video alone is all i needed to see whether I buy a dimebucker or not & it was good enough to get me to sub. I'll be fitting a new dimebucker to my LTD max200 RPR. Is it fucked up that I'm fitting a dimebag signature pickup to a max cavalera signature guitar? Anyways, keep up the cool content!

[@diamond.rzk333]

Nice video, lml

[@jungats7]

Is there a DIMEBAG set which is F Spaced?

[@genghisghost]

is that an actual dean? or is it a replica?

[@dimebagdarrell8698]

Where did you buy this guitar

[@TKD187]

I have that same guitar except for my lightning is yellow it's not a real thing from hell if it says made in China lol all his guitars come from Florida. but Im going to do the same thing to mine but mine doesn't have a Floyd roads , it's just got holes in the back of the guitar you put the string through and then a simple bridge for the strings to rest on so instead of cutting it I was just going to buy a floating floored road bridge they're actually pretty cool but very expensive

[@johnpruett6980]

Great video but I can’t understand why you would change pickups and still leave those friggin string tails… my OCD is offended. :)

[@TexasSmoking]

Its funny because the dimebucker is a knock off of the bill lawrence. This video needs more fruity jewelry

[@lucrobert8878]

Ah the metric system, used by everyone but America.

[@Thrashpotato]

So Chinese knockoff you mean like dhgate knockoff or just made Korea not USA made because from what I was told there was no dean from hell made in China just a little confused cool vid though and those dimebuckres sound amazing like is that what your saying by that's not even a real bill lawrance?

[@TKD187]

I watched so many people loosen up the strings and then cut them in the middle 🤦🏻‍♂️ just unwrap them from the tuner and take them all the way out!!!! I guess it's one of my OCD things 🤔

[@rasersharp9744]

This dude has some alcohol issues lmao. I got an Ibanez Gio with a locking trem. It has stock Ibanez pickuos, I can't afford a Dime guitar so I'm thinking of buying the dime pickups instead and chucking em on my Ibanez. This helped me to see how they sound

[@MARK-r6c3k]

Man what a pain in the ass. I'll just pay someone to do it. Good for you for doing it yourself though. 👊😎

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

I love doing shit like this!

[@redsix49]

I like how u flipped the guitar and set it on the switch...haha please dont hack into the screw bowl... u need a bong hit bro I wanna hook 1 of these bad boys into my ol 86 Kramer Aerostar...I put a Floyd Rose on it 20+ years ago...works great... stays in tune no matter what I do ... Fun video guys...(What a change in sound...fantastic) I'm old and a fan...so I'm a old fan of yourz...yaay...I need a shirt

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

I was careful when flipping it haha and Kramer guitars are a force to be reckoned with! I wanna see that Kramer I am a huge Kramer fan!

[@ModernCivilWar]

Dream theater nice

[@syracuse6651]

Well very efficient picking toward the end with that Malmsteen type Shit going on Lol , Cool though .

[@chacostacos9001]

Other dude looks like Lars' cool cousin lol

[@verminvaporizer1394]

Jimmy Buffet?

[@mikeg.9238]

Stupid mustache but nice shredding at the end!

[@Alchemist_X]

Metric system is superior lmao Americans broke away from the British a long time ago but still insist on using the imperial system?! Wtf?!

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

I agree, I hate when I get awesome foreign guitars and have trouble working on them because my screwdriver or hex key is slightly off.

[@TKD187]

You think those are the actual pickups he used in his guitar? I'm just saying if I had the money he had at one point I think my pickups would be worth more than $300 lol

[@JeremyTalaczynski]

This perfectly shoes how annoying guitars can be to work on

[@maximussight8394]

Hey, i just became the 100th subscriber. Do i get sth?

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

Yes! What's your addy

[@HugoWelti]

Honestly, that was a pretty bad tone, LOL.

[@muhammadhakimi8388]

its not funny

[@thekrakenstudio4186]

Thank you for the input, I will try harder next time to make a "how to" more of a comedy. Again it was a "how to" so kick rocks.

[@EothaG]

Hey, these guys are not comedy geniuses but they are humorous!! I enjoy their vids.

[@dildojizzbaggins6969]

metric>imperial, you bastards :D