pickups

  1. TECH TIPS: Pickups, Bucking the Hum

    What is a humbucking pickup? What does it do? What does it sound like? And why is it called that? A humbucking pickup is a type of pickup that is especially good at doing two things. First, they’re designed to solve the problem of suppressing external noise; built with two coils in a way that makes them cancel the annoying...
  2. TECH TIPS: Adjusting Your Pickups - Fine Tune Your Sound

    Here is a TECH TIP for our friends at Seymour Duncan showing you how to dial in your pickups: By Frank Falbo, Seymour Duncan VP of Products 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...
  3. TECH TIPS: Pickups Active and Passive Explained.

    Three passive pickups mounted to the pickguard are clearly visible beneath the strings of a Stratocaster® guitar (above); two active pickups are mounted on a Jim Root Telecaster® guitar (below). You'll often see a guitar or a bass advertised as having passive or active pickups. What does that mean? The difference matters quite a lot in terms of your instrument's...
  4. Seymour Duncan Mick Thomson’s signature Blackouts EMTY

    Seymour Duncan announces the release of the latest addition to our popular Blackouts Humbucker series the Blackouts AHB-3 Thomson EMTY. Like its predecessors (The AHB-1 and AHB-2), the Blackouts AHB-3 EMTY provides distinctive, screaming metal tones, packing a serious mid-range punch, thicker, darker chords than other humbuckers and hard-hitting driving leads. The 9-volt active Blackouts are designed specifically for more...
  5. Manchester Orchestra Touring With Silversun Pickups and Brand New

    One of our favorite new bands Manchester Orchestra will be touring with Brand New in the fall. The Atlanta natives have been touring around the world non-stop since the release of their second full-length, Mean Everything To Nothing, and there are no signs of slowing down anytime soon. In America, the release of the record was celebrated by a highly...

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