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Seymour Duncan Pickups - It's all about tone!

For cleaner, more articulate tones, the SH-2 Jazz Model is a perfect fit. When placed in the neck position of a guitar, you're treated to classic humbucker tones that reach far beyond the "Jazz" moniker, including country, blues, funk, and heavy rock. The SH-2 Jazz Model excels on fast runs up and down the neck, and its natural tone allows it to easily match up to virtually any bridge pickup. With the sheer amount of tones available, guitarists of any ilk will find the SH-2 useful.

Seymour Duncan SH-2 Jazz Model at a Glance:
  • Sound
  • Complete setup

Sound
The SH-2 Jazz Model inherent sound makes it a great choice for fast runs. The brighter tone has slightly less output and is a good match with most bridge pickups. When distorted, the tone is full and bright with smooth sustain. Compared to the SH-1 '59 Model, the Jazz has slightly less output and a more detailed treble response. The SH-2 comes with four-conductor hookup cable to facilitate complex pickup switching configurations.

Complete setup
Often a SH-2 Jazz is placed at the neck, and is paired with an SH-4 JB (Seymour's favorite combination, and he knows a thing or two about pickups!) or SH-5 Duncan Custom in the bridge position for diverse tones. The SH-2 Jazz Model works well in balanced and warm instruments, and fares especially well with mahogany bodies and rosewood fingerboards. This versatile pickup also works great with hollow and semi-hollowbody guitars.

Seymour Duncan SH-2 Jazz Model Features:
  • Humbucker
  • Color: Black
  • Neck position
  • Clean, articulate tone
  • Versatile
  • Moderate output
Your tone begins with Seymour Duncan pickups!

Why Choose Seymour Duncan?
Quite simply, it boils down to tone. Seymour Duncan has spent the majority of his life refining the art of creating pickups. Seymour Duncan is dedicated to getting the best tone possible from his pickups, from modern metal monsters to faithful reproductions of gems from the '50s and '60s. We know tone is important to you which is why we choose to carry Seymour Duncan pickups. With the massive amount of pickups available from Seymour Duncan, you're certain to find the sound you've been looking for.

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Tech Specs

  • Type: Humbucker
  • Position: Neck
  • Active/Passive: Passive
  • Magnet Material: Alnico V
  • Number of Conductors: 4 wire plus shield
  • DC Resistance: 7.5K
  • Connectivity: Soldered
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Covering: Uncovered
  • Color: Black
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 11102-01-B

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5/5

The "Jazz" pickup is stellar - strange name tho. .

1st experience w/ the SD Jazz - neck position my 335 copy ( Ibanez AS73 ), INSTANTLY a gigable guitar.
2nd experience w/ the SD Jazz - neck position of a Jay Turser Tele ( yep..) Again, INSTANT success!
This pickup is the Best "PAF" hands down, not too hot, not thin, GOLDIE LOCKS. Mine are wired simple 2 wire,
The next one I buy ( yep, I'm sold ), I will try either coil split, or series/parallel, but the simple
installation yielded a sweet variety of tones, I am happy camper. Great pickup for under $.
Music background: currently church worship, sometimes hired gun in bar/clubs/event enviroments
Rated 5/5

Great Pickup

Have a 30-year old Semi-Hollow Body Ibanez Artstar AS50 - Bridge pickup had bad coil. Replaced with the SD SH-2 in the neck and an SD SH-4 in the bridge - wow! This was a set put together by Sweetwater. Totally blown away with warm jazz tones at low levels and rocking tones at higher output levels. Nice and quiet too. Have a good luthier who set them up nicely so the levels between the pickups are very even. I am impressed. Also excellent advice, support and follow up from Sales Rep, John Castro. Sweetwater rocks!
Music background: Piano player, Composer & Music Producer - over 50 years
Rated 5/5

Neck pickup... in the bridge? Yes Please!

I have one of these that used to be in the neck pickup of a Kramer, wasnt too big on the sound as I wanted something more rock-oriented. I pulled this out and was about to list it for sale when I had the idea to put this in the bridge of a G&L Custom shop fallout. When I tell you that it's one of the best sounding guitars I have out of the 50+ i've owned I'm not lying. Perfect, creamy tone on any setting. Chimey cleans, roll back on tone for some nice acoustics, turn up the gain for a spectacular rock n roll sound and the leads on this thing are so smooth it might as well be a saxophone in a pickup. I have - regrets on this thing and if I ever have a guitar that I want to sing like no other, this is my choice!
Rated 5/5

beautiful tone and balance

I bought the SH-2 jazz pup to replace the stock humbucker in my f-hole Tele copy..i had installed a Semour quarter-pounder single coil bridge pup i really like and needed a better neck bucker to hopefully match that up with, and i'm finding out how well it does! the SH-2 has great balance and depth of tone on it's own, and matched up with the bridge gives me a nice middle position sound as well..i also changed my volume pot to a 500k and use a treble bleed circuit on that..i play mostly with my fingers and off and on with a thumb pick, and the articulation of both is great and sensitive in all repects for me, no matter if i use a tube or solid state amp of choosing for different gig room sizes..dialing in my guitars tone knob is very useful also, and tweaking the amps gain and tone make quite the diff at times, and either with a driven sound or clean it sounds pretty amazing...i had to tweak the effects on my pedalboard also, so i have spent the time doing all that, and very happy with my choice...i reviewed many pups b4 buying the SH-2 and i feel i've made a good decision and 4 gigs later am really excited to play it each time! Thank you Sweetwater!!
Music background: gigging musician and recording engineer for35* yrs...
Rated 5/5

Great pickup combo

I replaced the pickups on an old Gretch with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup at the neck and a Gibson Dirty Finger pickup at the bridge and it sounds great
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