Seymour Duncan
Seymour Duncan is a company that is most famous for manufacturing of
guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. Company was founded in late
1978 by guitarist and luthier
Seymour W. Duncan in
Santa Barbara, California.
Notable users
The first artist signature pickup was the
SH-12 "Screamin' Demon" model, created for
George Lynch (
Dokken,
Lynch Mob). Seymour Duncan also wound the humbucker in
Eddie Van Halen's
Frankenstrat guitar. Another well known Seymour Duncan artist is the late
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, with whom they collaborated on a signature pickup, the
SH-13 "Dimebucker", which has been used on Abbott's tribute guitars, produced by
Washburn Guitars and
Dean Guitars. Seymour Duncan's Alnico II Pro (APH-1) pickups are also exclusively used by
Guns N' Roses guitarist
Slash. Seymour Duncan's best selling pickup model is the
SH-4 "JB Model" humbucker, that originated from a pickup Seymour made for Jeff Beck in 1974. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth collaborated with Seymour Duncan to produce his very own signature set of active humbuckers.The late Randy Rhoads used Seymour Duncan Jazz and Distortion pickups on his Jackson custom (now Rhoads style) guitars.
Effects pedals
Relatively new to the Seymour Duncan product line is the effects pedals series. The first pedal introduced was the Pickup Booster, a clean booster. The second pedal introduced was the Tweak Fuzz, a fuzz pedal with a "Tweak" switch that switches between six modes of fuzz. Introduced at Winter
NAMM in 2006 was the Twin Tube Classic, a dual mode tube distortion pedal.
SH, as in SH-1, represents a regular (Gibson) spaced humbucker. TB, as in TB-1, represents a Trembucker spaced (Fender or Floyd Rose tremolo) humbucker.
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