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Using Signature Pickups to Create Your Own Unique Tone
Yes, many of us buy pickups because a famous person is associated with them. Sometimes we buy them because of the descriptions on Seymour Duncan website, and sometimes they come from posting questions...
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The Alnico II Pro
The Alnico II Pro is currently my neck pickup of choice, because it does so many things so well. Probably the most famous with its association with Slash, it is the inspiration behind the APH-2 Slash...
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One Trick Pony, or Many Trick Pony: My Versatile Wiring
Some people love to buy many guitars, and hand pick a guitar for a specific job. Some people try to make a guitar as versatile as it can be, getting as many useful sounds out of one instrument. I fall...
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Band Basics: Part 1 – The Mission
“We wanted to be the coolest, sexiest, meanest, nastiest, loudest, funnest band. There was a group consciousness of rape, pillage, search, and destroy.” So you want to start taking your band more...
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Turn It Up! A Documentary All About The Electric Guitar
Promising to be a definitive documentary about the history and the rise of the electric guitar, “Turn it Up!” gives guitar lovers and fans alike a reminder why guitar players love the instrument so...
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In Search of the Secrets of Slash’s Sound
“A Les Paul into a Marshall”. It’s an accurate description of Slash’s signature sound, and it seems so simple. So why is it so hard to get that famous tone? In search of the answers to this and other...
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Straps and Strap Height: Playing While Looking Cool
Jimmy Page probably sold more LPs than Les himself. We’ve all seen it: Les Paul down by the knees, swaggering across the stage. This is an image that’s burned into our brain, and probably the reason...
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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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Recovering From A Broken String
As guitarists, it’s happend to us all. You’re in the middle of playing a song for someone, showing off all that skill that was hard-earned from all those years of practice. You’re in your zone and you...
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Choosing The Best Bridge Pickup a for a Les Paul
Previously, I discussed some of my favorite pickup selections for the neck position of a Les Paul which you can read here. In this article, I wish to explore some of my favorite pickups for the bridge...
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Seymour Duncan 3rd Annual Notes For Notes Benefit
Being a company founded with the heart of musicians, we’ve always tried to give back whenever we could to support important causes. And one such cause near and dear to us is supporting kids’ music...
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App Attack: My Favorite Guitar iOS Apps
It is a great time to be a musician. We have so many tools at our disposal, from thousands of wonderful inexpensive guitars to amazing technology that fits right in our pocket. This article will...
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Piezo Vs. Magnetic Pickups
The prototype for an optical bass: this is as much as you can think outside the box! I am always intrigued in how things developed. How did the guitar develop to what it is today? How do our views...
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New Slash Album On The Way!
Slash has announced the release of new album, World On Fire, which will land in your speakers on September 15. It’ll be the second Slash album to feature Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, and as...
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The Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive Review
Make some room on that pedalboard, folks, because the Seymour Duncan pedal line is expanding. The new 805 Overdrive joins the Dirty Deed Distortion, Vapor Trail Analog Delay and the Pickup Booster...
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Reader’s Choice Top 10 Guitar Solos
Guitar solos can be both beautiful and tragic. Savage or sublime…or even scary. Sometimes in the same solo. They can serve the song, but should not distract from it. But over the last 40 or so years of...
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Making Sense Of Seymour Duncan Pickup Coding
So many pickups on the Custom Shop Wall of Fame I regularly get questions like ‘What pickup should I get?’, ‘Which pickup is hotter?’ Sometimes it’s even “Should I get the Seymour Duncan JB, or should...
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When ‘The One That Got Away’ Meets ‘New Guitar Day’
We just wanted to share something really cool that happened on our Facebook page the other day. It all started when we posted this image for Valentine’s Day, featuring an already-hard-to-find Epiphone...
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7 “Easy-To-Play” Songs To Add To Your Guitar Repertoire
Perhaps Robert Tepper said it best in his song for the film Rocky IV: “There’s no easy way out/There’s no short cut home” For guitar players, most of the time, this is most definitely true. Perhaps...
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Appetite For Destruction: Seymour Duncan Pickups & Guns N’ Roses
“Paradise City.” “Sweet Child O’Mine.” “Welcome To The Jungle.” “November Rain.” The list reads like the soundtrack of my early adolescence, like it does for so many. And for just as many, it’s also...
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