DAF Humbucker

For years, my favorite pickups for semi-hollow body guitars have been Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers. I love their tone. But playing live, the SLs expose a limitation. They are unpotted and microphonic. This was also true of the original Ibanez Super 58s that came with the AM93, (which were replaced by the Seth Lovers). Given how much I loved the P-90 soapbars in my LP Special, (and based on a previous DAF review),I decided to give the DAFs a shot. I am so glad I did! It is difficult to compare the DAFs with SLs. The DAFs have more body. My luthier describes them as "full and mean". The neck pickup is nice and round and has more throatiness than the SL neck. The bridge (and as a rule I hate bridge pickups) is neither thin nor harsh. In fact, I could imagine them sounding really nice with an Acoustic Simulator. With the tone down a little they actually sound very nice strummed. In the middle position, the pickups sound great! I cannot come up with a better description. There is much more in the middle than the SLs gave me. I love the SLs, remember. I am just blown away. These are not hot pickups, though. They are lower output like vintage pickups usually are. But the mean is there. It's quite amazing. Semi-hollow body guitars are often made of maple (mine are) and that is a brighter tone wood than mahogany. Also, my semi-hollows are of the ES-339 (14" body size) so I am usually looking for ways to darken the sound up a bit. The neck pickup is dark enough to accomplish this. I am exceedingly happy that I bought the DAFs. I purchased a second set that are destined for my D'Angelico semi-hollow. Thanks, Dylan!

I was not expecting the great sound I got out of these, but truly a professional sound pickup. I had an old 60's Ventura (Japan) guitar that was my first, so I wanted to rebuild it. The DAF's and the wiring kit with the .022mfd caps work great together. I did think I was getting CTS pots but got Bourns instead, not a big deal, I used them. I would certainly use these over standard Gibson pickups, much better sound and growl when you want it. Very happy.

Great service. Great sounding pickups. Love em!

This set went into a Les Paul Standard (the first higher end guitar I purchased), that is a great playing guitar. The original and second set of pickups were lacking clarity even after a complete gutting, rewire and new components from switch to jack. I dropped these in, got it set up, made a couple of small height adjustments and it is now perfect.

From the 22nd fret of the high E to the open low E, every note is clear and nothing gets lost in the mix with chords, every note comes through. I went as far as running it through a fuzz, overdrive and 2 distortion pedals at the same time and it still had good definition on the notes.

The clean tones are phenomenal. I get good sound from the neck with the tone way down to the bridge with the tone on 10. I have had some pickups that get muddy with the tone way down or very tinny with high tone on the bridge, these maintained really nice and even still have a little warmth at high tone settings.

As with the P90's I bought, these are great pickups and I would recommend them over some much higher priced pickups I have played. Great job Dylan!

Great punk tone without the extra buzz that you normally get from high output pickups!!! My favorite humbucker style pickup!!!