Shadow SH661 4-Conductor

This pickup is a really hot humbucker.
It looks a little cheap with no cover and only wrapped with black ribbon. It has four conductor cables so you've got the option for a coil split but the wires are somewhat thin, you should be careful not to rip them off. When once installed in a guitar this doesn't really matter. And you don't have to worry about string spacing because it has a blade instead of six pole pieces.
I put it in the bridge position on my strat and wired it so that i can split the humbucker for the famous middle/bridge single coil strat sound. Works perfect and sounds as it should, great for funky stuff. When in humbucker mode it delivers a massive output with lots of bass and treble and a full mid spectrum. Even when the humbucker may look cheap, it sounds like a much more expensive one! Great for all sorts of heavy music with high gain distortion, to get nice clean tones you should use the coil split option.

I bought this pickup as a replacement for a cheapo strat copy, the behringer iaxe (old model). I replaced the bridge and the neck pickup with the sh6661, and added some additional switches for the coil tap. It took some time to find out the right wiring configuration, but in the end it sounded allright. The cables of the pickup are very thin, i stripped the ends with the help of a lighter. Then i scrubbed them gently with a paper towel, this worked fine! But you have to be careful not to damage the
wires...
Sound:
I think it's unbelievable how good the guitar sounds after this simple modification, in humbucker mode the pickups sound really amazing. In single coil mode the sound is a little thin, but i like it anyway. I fully recommend this pickup, you can't go wrong with it!