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Why Every Guitar Should Have Push-Pull Pots
Push-pull pots can turn a regular guitar into an insanely flexible tonal solution for every occasion. Most commonly used for eliciting single-coil-like tones from humbuckers, players can sometimes...
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The History of the Music Man Stingray Bass Pickup, 1976-2021
After selling his namesake company roughly ten years earlier, Leo Fender was back in the instrument business. And even with such iconoclast instrument designs like the Stratocaster, Telecasters,...
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The Best Pickups for Metal: Active Pickups
The debate among players as far as what kind of pickups, passive or active, are best for metal rages on. And it will continue to do so for a long time. But one thing’s for sure. When it comes to the...
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Active Humbuckers Tone Profiles
Learn the tonal differences between a few of our most popular active humbuckers The Basics of Active Humbuckers Like their passive counterparts, active pickups still utilize magnets and wire-wrapped...
View ArticleIntroducing Duality
Whenever we make a new product at Seymour Duncan, it has to benefit players. It has to make life easier and tone better for those who it’s made for. Duality is made unlike any other active pickup, and...
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Seymour Duncan Active P-Bass Pickups
By Dave Eichenberger When looking over the history of popular music, it is safe to say that passive basses are really the most common of the basses used. After all, this is what Leo Fender designed,...
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Active Or Passive Bass Pickups: Which Is For You?
When the electric bass as we know it was first invented by Leo Fender and co, there was no such thing as ‘active and passive’ bass electronics; there was just ‘what was there.’ If you wanted to...
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Dino Cazares Talks Retribution Pickups
Dino Cazares has used active pickups to shape his sound from the first Fear Factory album onwards. Dino goes way back with our active Blackouts – in fact, he was one of the players we consulted with...
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Active Jazz Bass Pickup & Preamp Roundup
By Dave Eichenberger In electric basses, there are basically (haha) three different ways to design a pickup system. You can go with passive pickups, passive pickups with a preamp, and full-on active...
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Introducing Seymour Duncan Jeff Loomis Blackouts
Jeff Loomis knows what he wants to hear from his guitar, whether playing solo or as a member of Arch Enemy and Conquering Dystopia: he needs a matched pickup set that stays clear under heavy...
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The Retribution Pickups
The Retribution pickups were designed with Dino Cazares of Fear Factory and Divine Heresy to provide lots of attack, clarity and increased headroom that 7 and 8-string players like Dino have been...
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Hot-Rodding the STC Preamps
When you’re a gear-head, nothing is ever – EVER – completely perfect. Sure, you’ll throw in the Steve Harris Signature Pickup into your P Bass, and enjoy the tone (and for my impressions, click here)....
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Active Pickups And How They Are Different
Some thirty odd years ago active pickups hit the market and they were doing something amazing. Lots of output paired with no hum, noise or buzz. What else could you ask for? As time went on, players...
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Active and Passive in the Same Guitar – Can It Be Done?
It’s a question we get asked a heck of a lot here at SD, and a question that appears all over the internet – how should I wire up a mixture of active and passive pickups in the same guitar? The...
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Cage Match: Active vs. Passive Pickups
Pickups come in two basic flavors. One is active, and the second is passive. If your guitar requires a battery, chances are that it has active pickups. If it doesn’t, or will function without a...
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Digging Out of the Hole You’re In: Breaking Out of Playing Ruts
We’ve all been there before: when we’re uninspired and everything we play sounds, well, the same. Playing ruts, or more accurately named plateaus, are problems every instrumentalist faces and has to...
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Seven-String Pickup Options
One thing 7-string players continually cite as an attraction to the extended range of the seven is that they can still play everything that they could play on a six-string guitar – as well as getting...
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Introducing the Gus G. FIRE Blackouts System
Hard rock and metal guitarists no longer need to choose between the power of active pickups and the response of passive pickups. The Gus G. FIRE Blackouts System blends the best aspects of both. “This...
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Trevor Bolder, Legendary bassist from Bowie to Mick Ronson and Uriah Heep...
Trever Bolder Trevor Bolder is a bassist, producer, composer, and singer known for making music combining hard rock with lots of melody and harmonies. He’s a heavy rock bass player who plays fast,...
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Installing Active Basslines Pickups
Basslines® bass pickups range from the most authentic vintage reproductions to the most modern active pickups. This Tech Tip looks at installation of active pickups. These include: “Phase I” soapbars...
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