The Seymour Duncan JB/'59 set has been considered the most versatile traditional humbucking set by many players for a very long time... They get great crunch and bite from the JB... and the '59 gives you great classic tones for nice cleans and nice heavy thick tones. You can get everything from a solid blues/clean, blues/dirty to a nice heavy metal tone out of them with a few pedals here and there. Being passive pickups, it makes them a lot easier to transplant into a passively wired guitar. If you're a beginner... I recommend this set of pickups because you'll undoubtedly find that your taste in music will take many shapes as you delve deeper into the guitar... A set of high output pickups are only going to carry you into so many realms of tone... pretty much limiting you to distorted tones... The JB/59 will carry you through just about all the realms of tone and then some. Giving you longevity and versatility. You'll find that you can get great clean tones just as easy as great distorted tones.....

After rereading that... you'd think Seymour Duncan paid me to write that........ but unfortunately they did not.