Seymour Duncan Pickups

Seymour Duncan is a company that is most famous for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in late 1978 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan in Goleta, California.

The first artist signature pickup was the SH-12 "Screamin' Demon" model, created for George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob). Another well known Seymour Duncan artist is "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, with whom they collaborated on a signature pickup, the SH-13 "Dimebucker", which has been used on Abbott's tribute guitars (although Abbott himself continued to use Bill Lawrence pickups), produced by Washburn Guitars and Dean Guitars.

Seymour Duncan's Alnico II Pro (APH-1) pickups are also exclusively used by Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash. Seymour Duncan's best selling pickup model is the SH-4 "JB Model" humbucker, that originated from a pickup Seymour made in 1974 after seeing that Jeff Beck had hotter than usual pickups in his Les Paul. Jeff has never used the pickup, which in fact stands for Jazz Blues, not Jeff Beck, although many still choose to believe otherwise. The confusion was made in the original Seymour Duncan catalog when Seymour stated how he measured incredibly high output pickups in Beck's guitar, on the same page as the JB pickup, one of Jeff's common nicknames.

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth collaborated with Seymour Duncan to produce his very own signature set of active humbuckers, "Dave Mustaine Livewires". Randy Rhoads used Seymour Duncan Jazz and JB pickups on his Jackson custom (now Rhoads style) guitars.

Synyster Gates of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold has custom Seymour Duncan Invader pickups on his custom Schecter guitar. Mike Dirnt of Green Day used Seymour Duncan Antiquity Pride II pickups on his Fender '66 and '69 P-Basses.

Kurt Cobain of the grunge band Nirvana used humbuckers on his Jaguars and some of his Stratocasters.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day uses the SH-4 "JB Model" humbucker, on his Fernandes Stratocaster and his Fender Stratocaster.

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