seymour duncan

Installing a set of replacement pickups is a great way to alter your instrument's tone so that it better reflects your own personal taste and style. While there are plenty of great humbucker sets out there, each with their own distinct sound and feel, these five managed to create a tonal combination that took them above the rest, becoming one of our most popular humbucker sets.      Continue reading →

With more than 30 years in the business, Seymour Duncan pickups have become a staple for musicians everywhere. And here at PAL, we couldn't be more proud and excited to offer our customers the very best in ingenuity and tone that Seymour Duncan has to offer. In the video demos below, the guys at Seymour Duncan take five of their popular neck pickups and pit them against each other in rock, blues, metal and clean demonstrations. A Marshall is used for clean tones, Cornford for blues, Orange for rock and a Peavey 5150 for metal.    Continue reading →

[caption id="attachment_2249" align="alignright" width="300"] Seymour Duncan Little 59 Tele Lead[/caption] Guitar geeks who study their favorite ax-man’s rig will undoubtedly notice that most of them have their own custom pickup setup, and for good reason. That’s not to say that the pickups shipped with most guitars are cheap or even bad, because they’re not and more often than not are great as is, but just as car enthusiasts change the little things on stock models to make them reflect more of their own taste and style, so too do pickups do for the electric guitar player. Today, we're sizing up three of our favorite hard rock pickups!     Continue reading →

[caption id="attachment_2468" align="alignright" width="300"] Seymour W. Duncan outside his factory in CA holding a 1950 Fender Broadcaster guitar.[/caption] Today, we want to take the time to honor the man behind one of our cherished partners, Seymour W. Duncan. As one of the top dealers of Seymour Duncan Pickups in the world, we owe a lot of our success to the outstanding products created by one of the most ingenious tone-crafters music has ever known. Although most players already know a lot about Seymour Duncan pickups, few of them know the amazing story of the company’s namesake, from his start as a guitarist and luthier to his rise as the man behind the world’s leading manufacturer of guitar and bass pickups. Continue reading →

[caption id="attachment_2245" align="alignright" width="300"] Lemmy Kilmister Signature Bass Pickups[/caption] Pro Audio Land is excited to announce the collaborative effort between Seymour Duncan and Motörhead's frenetic frontman that has brought us the newly announced Lemmy Kilmister Signature pickup! The sound of Motörhead is defined by the high-output fat tone and midrange grind that Lemmy Kilmister has delivered for decades with songs like "Ace of Spades” and "Iron Fist,” combined with a fast pick attack on his Rickenbacker bass.   Continue reading →