Jeff Loomis (Conquering Dystopia, Arch Enemy) announced his collaboration with Seymour Duncan yesterday on a set of new signature guitar pickups. Details are forthcoming, but the video below gives an idea of what they’ll sound like.
Jeff Loomis (Conquering Dystopia, Arch Enemy) announced his collaboration with Seymour Duncan yesterday on a set of new signature guitar pickups. Details are forthcoming, but the video below gives an idea of what they’ll sound like.
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Zeus / January 21, 2016 2:38 pm
Under that much gain it’s impossible to tell what the pickups sound like. Honestly, any decent medium to high gain pickup will work for that type of music. Any SD, Dimarzio, or Lace will work fine, no need to pay for sig stuff. And with companies like bare knuckle and others, the pickup market is saturated with good options.
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Kelly Cook / January 21, 2016 10:22 pm
I thought about this the other day. It’s like, there are so many GOOD things out there, so what do you choose? Good for Jeff getting a signature pickup set and all, but man is there a lot of stuff to choose from.
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Zeus / January 22, 2016 10:50 am
That’s a big problem these days (but a good one to have), the gear market is just saturated with options. Personally I use SD Blackouts for the most part, mainly because they’re consistent and I can swap them from one guitar to the next and they give me the same performance, and to a degree, sound. But I play high gain stuff, so I’m not concerned with letting the “tonewoods” shine.
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Kelly Cook / January 22, 2016 11:16 am
Yeah, it is definitely a good problem to have haha. When it comes to pickups, there is for sure this kinda “quality hump” that you have to get over before you’re in good territory. For example. the pickups in my PRS S2 Mira were basically SE pickups that didn’t really have anything to them. Once I put Duncans in it, there was a noticeable difference. Kinda like if you AB-ed an Ibanez Gio with stock pickups and put it against an Ibanez Prestige with some Dimarzios. Once you’re out of stock pickup land, you’re in good shape.
P.S. I had a Blackout in an old Ibanez I had and loved it.
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