Bye, bye, soldering iron. Today, Seymour Duncan announces Liberator, a new Solderless Pickup Change System.  With Liberator installed, anyone who can use a screwdriver can change pickups!

Liberator is a bare-wire Lockdown system integrated with a volume pot. In other words, it’s like a patch-bay for your pickups. Like a studio patch bay or telephone switchboard, Liberator combines quick-change connections up front with hard-wired connections behind the scenes. And thanks to the screw-clamp Lockdown system, connections are rock-solid reliable.
Learn more at http://www.seymourduncan.com/liberator/

Tampa, Florida-based Christian rockers 39 Stripes announced the release of their first full-length project, Beyond Broken, October 26, 2010. The album’s debut singles “My Desire” and “Mustard Seed” are currently vying for adds at Christian AC and Rock radio.
Produced by 39 Stripes lead guitarist Steve Henderlong, Beyond Broken has been two years in the making due to a slew of significant hardships for the band, both personally and professionally. Consequently, the album, which 39 Stripes describes as its “best sounding and most well written CD to date,” focuses largely on trusting God in life’s joys and heartaches.
Steve is a long time Duncan endorsee and has used many of our products throughout the years. It’s obvious when listening to Beyond Broken that Steve is a seasoned guitar player with amazing tone. Here’s what he has to say about the Duncan pickups used on the new album.
“For the new 39 Stripes CD “Beyond Broken” I used Seymour Duncan pickups like I always do. I usually use the Custom Custom (bridge) and the Jazz (neck), but my Duncan Distortion loaded PRS guitars got a lot of use in the studio this time around. The big surprise for me was the P-Rails! P-Rails allowed me to get humbucking, single coil, and P-90 tones all from the same guitar without sacrificing tones. For our song “Blind,” I made it a point to use the P-Rails on every track just to see how much sonic ground I could cover! The cleans, means, and in-betweens are all from the P-Rail. What an awesome pickup design!”
Ray Schurr, bassist for 39 Stripes, is also a Duncan user.
“I have been using the SPB-3 & STK-J2b in all of my basses for live and studio. Nice full tones with lots of diverse sounds.”
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Thank you to all who participated in the Seymour Duncan Thanksgiving Giveaway.  We have randomly selected our winners.  Congratulations!

Grand Prize Winner: David Scadin

Trick your sound with Seymour Duncan pickups and a delay pedal! The grand prize is 2 humbuckers or 3 single coil Seymour Duncan pickups of your choice* plus a Deja Vu Pedal.

2nd Prize Winner: Robby Campbell

1 Seymour Duncan Pickup of your choice*

3rd Prize Winner: Stephen Albert

1 Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster Pedal

*excludes custom shop pickups
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Florida rockers Anberlin, known for songs like “Feel Good Drag” and “Impossible”are up to it again with the release of their fifth studio album entitled Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place.  And, they are hitting the road fully loaded with Duncan pickups.  All three guitar players of Anberlin rely on Seymour Duncan for their tone. The band’s bassist, Deon Rexroat plays the Quarter Pound Jazz Bass Pickup (SJB-3) and says:
“I’ve been in love with Seymour Duncans since the first time I borrowed a friend’s P-bass with [Quarter Pounds] installed. The tone was so round and fat, but still clear and natural.  Years later, I still install them into all of my basses.”
Deon uses: Sjb-3, stk-j1n, stk-j1b
And, Joey Milligan on lead guitar says:
“Seymour Duncans have given me the perfect balance of enormously heavy and perfect clarity that I need, no other pickups have been able to give me that.”
Joey uses: Sh-1, Sh-4, Sh-13

Seymour Duncan Artist and Their Pickups

Prestige Guitars is giving away a gorgeous semi-hollow Musician PRO, with a carved top and back, Bigsby vibrato, and a pair of gold-covered Seymour Duncan humbuckers—a ‘59 in the neck and a JB Model in the bridge. Enter at www.prestigeguitars.com/contest.html or click here for a chance to win!

Good luck and Happy Holidays!

After the Burial, the band known for their technical eight string guitar proficiency, is releasing a new album. This much anticipated work of brutal art entitled In Dreams will be available on Nov. 23. Guitar masters Justin and Trent some how managed to out do themselves again in creating a masterpiece that will wake the dead.
Here is a note from the guys:
“Hey guys, it’s been a long time coming and we are proud to say that our new full-length album, In Dreams, hits stores everywhere today. I must admit, this has been quite the experience for us. There were some ups and also some downs, but we have worked with each other to overcome everything that was holding us back ultimately emerging as a much stronger group. With that being said, we are absolutely pleased to deliver this recording to you. We worked extremely hard to ensure you are getting the absolute strongest AFTER THE BURIAL album yet.”
Both Justin and Trent use the 8 string blackouts in the studio and on the road.
“The Blackout 8’s are the best things to happen to our 8 string guitars, beside the extra string of course! Their tone is unmatched to any pickups we’ve ever used before. Getting this kind of clarity in even the lowest possible tunings seems like an impossible idea, but these get the job done and done extremely well.”
Make sure to get a copy of In Dreams available in stores now.
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With the holidays quickly approaching, we at Seymour Duncan are very grateful for all of you.  Because of this, we are running a Thanksgiving Seymour Duncan Giveaway!  To enter this contest, click the orange “WIN” button to the left OR go to our Facebook page and click on the sweepstakes tab.  Here are the prizes:

Grand Prize

Trick your sound with Seymour Duncan pickups and a delay pedal! The grand prize is 2 humbuckers or 3 single coil Seymour Duncan pickups of your choice* plus a Deja Vu Pedal.

2nd Prize

1 Seymour Duncan Pickup of your choice*

3rd Prize

1 Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster Pedal

Prize Eligibility

Only persons residing in United States who are at least 13 years of age can enter.

*excludes custom shop pickups
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Congratulations to our randomly selected winner, Stephen Koehler, for winning the JB pickup from our Freebie Friday Contest! His first song played was: The basic rhythm to “In My Darkest Hour” by Megadeth.  The JB will give you the same heavy crunch heard in the rhythm.

Thank you to all who entered.  We really enjoyed reading your personal accounts of your first song played or about an artist/song that has inspired you.  The wide range of music styles and genres was awesome!

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