- Yes, Seymour Duncan pickups are compatible with other manufacturers' pickups. With Gibson and some other brands Seymour Duncan pickups are a direct replacement. With Fender and some other brands the polarity of one of the pickups needs to be...
- This is not something that we recommend. They can be mixed but most often they are not. This is because the component values needed for active and passive pickups are different and it makes the wiring difficult and often...
- Jazz players were the first to add a seventh string to their guitars for increased range. Lately, however, the 7-string torch has been taken up by rockers. We've responded by releasing our most popular humbuckers in a 7-string format....
- Lefty pickups only apply in staggered pole piece pickup models. All of our Staggered single coil pickups are available in Left Hand Stagger at no extra charge. Other than that, there is nothing about a lefty pickup that is...
- Seymour Duncan offers several active pickups for bass and guitar. They are listed in the products pages along with the passive pickups as BLACKOUTS and Live Wires....
- Seymour Duncan offers many different types of noise-canceling pickups for a variety of different types of instruments. These come in the form of stacks, side-by-side humbuckers, and active pickups---and in a variety of shapes and sizes. Check our product...
- Seymour Duncan has released ?The Journey is the Destination,? a three-volume audio CD set of all Seymour Duncan electric guitar pickups recorded and indexed for "A/B-ing." The three CDs are: (1) humbuckers, mini-humbuckers and P-90s; (2) Tele, Jaguar, &...
- Magnet Type Alnico II Alnico V Ceramic Good for Warming up a bright-sounding guitar Adding punch to a warm guitar Adding punch and output to a warm guitar General Tone Warm, smooth, round, enhanced mids, soft and spongy...
- The two most misunderstood specs on the Tone Chart are the DC resistance and resonant peak numbers. The DC resistance refers to the resistance of the coil windings. For humbuckers the DC resistance is the sum of both coils....
- P.A.F. is an acronym for Patent Applied For and is a nickname given to the original Gibson humbuckers designed in 1955. These pickups had a sticker on the bottom that had "Patent Applied For" on them and years later...
- Passive pickups use a magnetic source of energy and relatively large coils of wire to generate their signal. Active pickups use smaller coils of wire and have a preamp built into the pickup to boost the signal. The upside...
- There are a couple of differences. Low output pickups drive the front end of your amp less and tend to produce a more bluesy or more vintage distortion. They have a very open feel to their tone. High output...
- Eighteen volts doesn't mean twice the gain of a 9-volt pickup. What it means is that the pickup will swing twice as much output voltage before its internal preamp starts to clip. That means less distortion in the pickup's...
- The difference in bridge vs. neck/middle pickups is their output. There is naturally less volume generated from the bridge pickup due to less string movement the closer the pickup is to the bridge. Bridge pickups are usually wound hotter...
- No. It's correct that some of our single-coil-sized humbuckers (JB Jr., Little '59, Li'l Screamin' Demon, Duckbuckers, Hot Rails, Cool Rails, Vintage Rails and the new Classic Stack Plus) have circuit boards on the undersides of the pickup. However,...
- First and foremost is tone. Seymour Duncan and his staff have spent years researching and developing guitar pickups that sound great. At Seymour Duncan the goal has never been about how to make pickups faster or cheaper, but how...