Happy Halloween! If you haven’t seen our Seymour Duncan Halloween Boo-Buckers yet, check them out in the post below. We are giving away ten sets through Facebook and Twitter (check out the Facebook competition below). You can enter both competitions to double your chances of winning. Here is how to enter the Twitter contest that will run until Monday morning 6am PDT. To enter, simply do […] Continue Reading
Just in time for Halloween, the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop has created ten sets of “Boo-Bucker” pickups. Throughout the weekend, ten lucky winners will receive a set of these brilliant humbuckers—a Custom Shop ’78 humbucker for the bridge and a Pearly Gates humbucker for the neck—wound by the legendary Maricela “MJ” Juarez of Seymour Duncan Custom Shop. To complete the spooky Halloween look, MJ dyed the […] Continue Reading
Seymour Duncan Artist and Their Pickups Kenny Lewis Superstar Brad Paisley has delivered one of the year’s hottest country events with his H2O World Tour. Now Paisley’s live chops are on display as performances from the tour are featured on the new double-disc Hits Alive which hits the streets November 2, 2010. The album includes 15 of Paisley’s 17 #1 songs and four that made it […] Continue Reading
Seymour Duncan Artist and Their Pickups Vernon Neilly Multi award winning guitarist/producer/actor and long time Seymour Duncan endorser Vernon Neilly recently returned from a successful South America tour where he performed concerts, did TV performances, and taught master classes. He is pictured above performing and giving a master class on recording and production techniques to a packed, standing room only group of students at Emu (Educacion […] Continue Reading
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month when we are reminded of the devastating impact of this disease. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women with one-in-eight developing the disease in their lifetime. According to the Centers for Disease Control breast cancer is second leading cause of death in women (40,000 deaths per year) and leading the cause of death among Latina women […] Continue Reading
Adjusting Your Pickups: Fine-Tune Your Sound Most guitars have screws around the pickups for adjusting pickup height. Most guitar factories adjust the pickups to a median height, but why not find the best height for your tone? While you can’t change the character of a pickup, you can make small adjustments that will fine-tune your sound. A good place to start is about 1/8″ (about two […] Continue Reading
Thank you to all of you who participated in our Bass Player Live! online giveaway. And big congrats to our two winners who will receive their choice of Seymour Duncan bass pickups: Lloyd Plum Timothy Brisson Stay tuned for our Halloween Seymour Duncan giveaway this week! Continue Reading
Bass Player Live! 2010 starts today! In addition to giving away Jaco Pastorius pickups, we are giving away Steve Harris pickups! Just like the Jaco pickups, these Steve Harris pickups were wound by Seymour W. Duncan himself. Read Seymour’s story about working with Steve Harris below. These pickups are one of a kind collectibles and we are giving them away at Bass Player Live! this weekend. […] Continue Reading
Weekend Giveaway: Seymour Duncan Bass Pickup of YOUR choice! This weekend, Seymour Duncan will be at Bass Player Live! For those of you who can’t attend the event, we wanted you to be able to participate in the action! So, we are giving away a set of Seymour Duncan Bass pickups of YOUR choice. All you have to do to enter is fill out this survey. […] Continue Reading
With Bass Player Live! 2010 happening this weekend, we are honoring Jaco Pastorius and keeping his memory alive by giving away a set of pickups that were originally created for Jaco in the 80’s. These pickups were re-created and hand wound by Seymour W. Duncan himself. These are one of a kind collectibles and we are giving them away at Bass Player Live! this weekend. If […] Continue Reading