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Learning how to use the Seymour Duncan PowerStage pedal amplifiers will help you get the most from your tone. With a few simple – and familiar – connections, these diminutive tone machines push out a ton of musical power while simplifying complicated setups. They are as useful for straight-in guitar players as pedalboard users and…

Legendary guitar tones often come by breaking the rules. A perfect example was when a 1960s guitarist – with an incorrectly installed magnet in the neck humbucker – stumbled upon a genre-changing, hollow, mid-forward sound. That sound is still iconic, and we captured it in the Seymour Duncan Green Magic humbucking pickup set. At their…

Guitar tone was in the middle of a massive shift throughout the 1970s. Especially the late ‘70s. With the advent of hard rock and metal, players were pushing their amps harder than ever before. They wanted more distortion, more harmonics, longer sustain, and electrifying touch response. It wasn’t long before they needed new pickups to…

We’re fortunate to be able to say we’ve built quite a few pickups since moving into our first 12x15ft. warehouse in Santa Barbara in the 1970s. It’s our pleasure to help generations of guitar heroes achieve their sound in rock, blues, jazz, punk, prog, psychedelic and country music, plus all the subgenres—math rock, metalcore, fusion,…

Strings don’t always get a lot of love—there aren’t too many demo videos about the best guitar strings, and you can’t flip ‘em on the secondhand market like guitars, pedals and amps—but stringing your instrument with the ideal materials and gauge for your needs is an easy way to improve the sound and feel of…

Seymour Duncan, a leading manufacturer of pickups, pedals, and pedal amps, is proud to showcase the best selling: the ‘78 Model, Green Magic and High Voltage humbucker pickups. These are available for order right now at seymourduncan.com and at your favorite dealer. These new guitar pickups for 2022 are quite special and have an interesting…

If you’ve shopped for humbuckers or humbucker-equipped guitars, you’ve undoubtedly seen the term “P.A.F. pickups” floating around on product pages. It’s one of the original humbucker designs and remains one of the most popular pickup choices for modern guitarists across a wide variety of genres. But what makes a P.A.F. a P.A.F.? Unlike Tennessee whiskey,…

When you’ve run out of playlists to shuffle, it’s time to give these guitar podcasts a listen. Amplify your commute with interviews with all-time guitar legends like ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, deep conversations featuring boutique guitar, amp and pedal builders, epic documentary-style podcasts about the life and work of your favorite artists, track-by-track breakdowns of…

In honor of Women’s History Month, we got to recently ask a few of our artists from the Seymour Duncan artist roster if they had any tips for budding guitar players, as well as how they got started using Seymour Duncan.   “More than ever, it seems important to let others know that yes, women…

If you want to learn about wiring guitar electronics or how to use a soldering iron, you came to the right place. And since you can’t start any project without tools, this first installment of our free Pickup Installation 101 course will ensure you have all the right ones for the job. From safety equipment…