Later in the article, I’ll be comparing the prices and options in both the Fender and Seymour Duncan ranges for different guitars. At the time of writing the Jazz bass range has 15 options, and the Precision bass range has 14 options. The bass guitar range suitable for Fender models includes a Jazz bass section and a Precision bass section.īoth ranges have models to suit 4 and 5 string basses and include vintage, medium, high and active outputs, so there’s something for everyone.
Seymour Duncan also make pickups specifically for offset guitars such as the Antiquity/ Antiquity II for the Jazzmaster, and the Quarter Pound, Antiquity/ Antiquity II and Vintage for the Jaguar. Humbuckers in single coil format: Hot Rails and Little ’58.True Single Coil: Vintage Broadcaster, Quarter Pound, Hot Tele, Alnico II Pro, Vintage, Vintage ’54, Five-Two, Jerry Donahue, Brad Paisley La Brea, Antiquity, Antiquity II and Antiquity ’55.Again, the range is split into true single coils, noiseless single coils and noiseless humbuckers in single coil form. There are 17 pickups in the Telecaster Seymour Duncan range at the time of writing and they use alnico 2, alnico 4, alnico 5 and ceramic magnets. Humbuckers in a single coil format: Everything Axe, Little ’59, JB Jr., Duckbuckers, Vintage Rails, Red Devil and Cool Rails.Noiseless: Hot Rails, Classic Stack Plus, Everything Axe, YJM Fury, Vintage Hot and Hot Stack.True Single Coil: Vintage, Custom, Antiquity Texas Hot, Antiquity II, Quarter Pound, Hot Strat, Jimi Hendrix Signature, Alnico II Pro, Lipstick Tube and Five-Two.Here is a list of the models in each category: Some pickups are are described as true single coil, some are noiseless single coils and some are humbuckers in single coil form. They use alnico 2, alnico 5 and ceramic magnets. They use Alnico V magnets and the traditional.
Solder the 2 'middle wires' together, tape the connection, then solder the outer wires to the output. Pickups like these are usually found on very high end basses. The traditional method for wiring a humbucker is to wire the coils in series: If you wanted to wire a 4 conductor Dimarzio or Seymour Duncan in this way, just look at the diagram. Seymour Duncan offer 30 passive pickups designed for Stratocasters at the time of writing. This is a modern design dual coil humbucking pickup. However, for this article, I’ll be focusing mainly on single coils and bass pickups, since this is mainly what people are looking for when comparing them to Fender. They do not offer any active P90s at the time of writing. Their P90 range consists of 10 pickups and is split into vintage, medium and high output pickups. Their humbucker range is split into vintage, medium, high and active output pickups, so you can choose anything from country to metal.Īt the time of writing, they have 60 models of humbucker available. This brand make a huge range of pickups including humbuckers, P90s and single coils for electric guitar, as well as pickups for bass guitar.