Seymour Duncan

"A Sharp" of Saint Motel, has some pretty neat-o gear, like his custom shop Stratocaster of an unknown vintage. Most of it comes from relatives. I want to rummage around in the attic at his house for awhile. I bet Robert Johnson's soul is up there.  

James Blackshaw impresses with his understated prowess on the 12-string; but if you can't hear it, you can't be impressed. Lately he's taken to a number of different amplification solutions, one of which involves the Seymour Duncan SA3SC Woody SC acoustic guitar pickup. Woo! That's a long name for such a little thing. But it makes a big difference.  

Owen O'Malley and His Itchy Trigger Finger preview the Seymour Duncan SFX-05 Lava Box in this installment of Gearwire Stompbox Walkthroughs. Hear words like "ridiculous," "huge," and "sludge," all used in the most positive manner.  

Behold the Crosstalk mouth intro.

Directly proceeding a bout of Bill and Owen's a capella glory, we're eager to get to an extended viewer response section, so we blast through site news as quickly as possible. That doesn't mean we don't take time to sing Gary Wright's greatest hit, however.  

Fronted by a two string Asian violin rather than a vocalist, Hsu-Nami, is an unusual band. The members talk about what they play and why they play it.  

54 Seconds Lead Singer / Guitarist Spencer Gibb regales us with tales of a youth spent gallivanting about the globe with a posse of Nobel Laureates and breeding a strain of champion Canadian Pacers. Oh wait, that was my youth. Spencer Gibb spent his childhood building a Les Paul. Which is cool, I suppose.  

Seymour Duncan's new SH-15 Alternative 8 humbucker pickup has just been introduced, and if you're rocking a rosewood fingerboard, you should probably investigate this a little further. Its Alnico 8 magnet will give your tone some pretty enhanced edge.  

The latest from Seymour Duncan, the SFX-04 Twin Tube Mayhem high gain guitar preamp, uses twin sub-miniature USA-made Phillips Sylvania 6205 vacuum tubes to achieve a heavy sound that screams pure metal. These tubes perform...  

Seymour Duncan has announced the ruggedly-built SFX07 Shape Shifter Tremolo stompbox. This is built like an armoured car, and has plenty of sweet features including variable speed (one to 20 cycles per second) and a pulsating...  

After our long conversations with the Seymour Duncan rep about the Shape Shifter and Lava Box pedals, it's time we be quiet and let the man play. Frank Falbo holds forth with guitar for your listening pleasure in the Gearwire...  

Seymour Duncan's second featured pedal at Summer NAMM 2007 was the SFX-05 Lava Box. This is an amp-like overdrive; if you back off on your volume, the pedal cleans up like a good amp will. When you're playing live, you can...  

The Seymour Duncan SFX-07 Shape Shifter was named Best in Show at Summer NAMM 2007 by Music, Inc., and Frank Falbo does his best to show us why. It's a 100% analog signal path tremolo pedal, but it has a "digital brain"...  

It's another slow, steady montage of Seymour Duncan guitar pickups, shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt. Take a long peek at this Part 2 of the Duncan guitar pickups. You can also check out Part...  

Take a video-montage tour of the selection of Seymour Duncan bass pickups on display at MusikMesse. Shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt, this video displays the goods Duncan's bass people brought...  

Everybody needs a montage. Even Rocky had a montage. Now, Seymour Duncan guitar pickups have one at Gearwire. Take a video tour of the Seymour Duncan company's guitar pickup products in this montage video, first in a...  

I've been writing and recording under the band name San Andreas Fault for a few years. I write and produce the music and these days, I play everything except drums. I've been kicking around the idea of picking up a new...  

Seymour Duncan's 2007 stompbox designs include the Lava Box for guitar and the Paranormal for bass players. The Lava Box gives a saturated rock distortion sound at the right settings, the Paranormal is a bass EQ box with...  

According to Seymour Duncan, many active pickups have a design flaw; the circuits are made with unbalanced inputs. What does this mean for you players, according to the Seymour Duncan rep? A nice dose of extra hum. Seymour...