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The Heartbreaker Humbucker Set

April 14, 2025 • heartbreaker • humbucker • jimmy page • josh vittek • led zeppelin

The humbuckers of Jimmy Page's #2 guitar

An amazing and unique set of PAFs, and a standout builder.

The Sheptone Blue Sky set is an exceptional pair of PAFs. The neck is somehow both airy and woody, and also smooth and creamy. It never gets muddy but delivers very smooth and round tones.

The bridge, in my opinion, is a very special pickup that really stood out to me. I have never experienced such a vocal sounding and expressive bridge pickup in my life, it just does everything I want it to do and more. It's like a 52 tele on steroids without an ounce of harshness in the treble. Roll back the volume and it doesn't lose any heft, and gets you even closer to a single-coil like sound. It's insanely inspiring.

On top of that, Josh is super helpful and available to answer any questions you may have. Truly top notch customer service.

Stop Chasing Dragons

Just buy this thing. It's the best humbucker for any style of music, period. Don't tell me you're a tone snob unless you at least try it.

High gain? It's wound enough to give you some serious chugs and leads so smooth, like butter on a muffin, but not too much that you lose clarity and definition to compression.

Clean? This is one of the very few bridge pickups that can actually pull off a great clean tone without fumbling with the volume and tone, and it holds up split.

It's friendly with fuzz and drive pedals, built like a tank (seriously, Josh isn't screwing around with that baseplate and wire quality) and sleek enough to fit into any humbucker routing.

Blue Sky

I'm very pleased with the Blue Sky's. I have over 10 guitars with different varieties of PAFs and I routinely grab for my guitar with the Blue Sky's. It has that woody and glassy tone I'm looking for. It's organic and dynamic. The overtones bloom at even bedroom volumes. You won't regret putting these in your favorite guitar.

Upshot Pickup

I've been using Shepton pickups in my guitars for the last 15 years and never disappointed! Upshot is another great pickup.

Sheptone Tribute 4 set

Great pickups, fantastic tone, highly recommended!

The Heartbreaker Humbucker Set

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