Showing posts with label Seymour Duncan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seymour Duncan. Show all posts

Saturday, July 17, 2010

1982 Seymour Duncan "Stack" Noise Cancelling Electric Guitar Pickup

When you play a Stratocaster guitar in the recording studio, you can either live with the noise from the single-coil pickup, or carve a bigger hole in the guitar and put in a humbucker. I never liked carving up vintage guitars. So I've developed a noise-cancelling pickup that fits right into the existing pickup hole in your guitar. I call it the Stack. The Stack duplicates the complex and distinctive harmonics of the Stratocaster, without the noise, because it preserves the narrow, sharply-focused magnetic field of the single coil. Those harmonics disappear when you change to a regular humbucker, because the wide double magnetic field results in the typical warm smooth humbucker sound instead of the Strat sound. By stacking two coils around one row of staggared magnets, I've cancelled the noise but kept the pure harmonics. Now I can take my strat into the studio without engineers getting on my back...

1982 Seymour Duncan "Stack" Noise Cancelling Electric Guitar Pickup Ad available at www.GuitarPulp.com





Monday, June 28, 2010

1990 Seymour Duncan 84-40 Tube Guitar Amplifier

At Seymour Duncan Research, our goal was to provide guitarists with an affordable, all-tube amp that sounded GREAT! We're proud to present the 84-40 Tube Guitar Amplifier.

Based on classic principles of tube guitar amplifier design, the 84-40 Tube Amp features an all-tube pre-amp driving a quartet of EL-84 power tubes, for the sweetest, most musical tone possible...

1990 Seymour Duncan 84-40 Tube Guitar Amplifier Ad available at www.GuitarPulp.com