This guitar plays and sounds great! The previous owner swapped original pickups with Black Mass Between Worlds pickups. (This set features an underwound HB sized Jazzmaster pickup in the neck position, and a punchy overwound humbucker in the bridge position. The pairing of these two pickups together allows you to take your guitar from chimy cleans to all out mid-forward assault with the flick of a switch. They even play well together in the middle position. Whether you play aggressive metal, or ambient reverb soaked post-shoe-worship, or both, this humbucker set has you covered)