From the Custom Shop, EP 1: If you dream it.
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Seymour Duncan and Maricela Juarez take you into the Custom Shop and talk tone, history and answer your questions.
You can watch LIVE from the Custom Shop at 11am PST each Wednesday at www.livestream....
Most people I've spoken to about pickups that had dealings with the brand always talk about MJ and how wonderful she is. So nice to finally meet you!
Something strange happened to me. Some years ago here in Brazil I bought a very old JB (my first one) and it happened to be JBJ: a JB made by Maricela Juarez. The guy don´t even know what he was selling, neither did I knew what I was buying. It sounded fantastic in my SG1 -- very nice tone, feedbacks and sustain --, so I made some research and discovered the procedence. They were becoming famous at that time, I think it was 2009. I played with it for some years, and was very happy with the sound. Unfortunately one of its coils came out to die recently (lesson I learned: don´t change a lot the pickups in your guitars, they dont´t like it). So I started looking for another JB, not necessarilly a JBJ, as they are becoming very expensive now. Last month I found a JB in E-bay and I was surprised to see that it was another JBJ! Lucklly I win the auction, and it closed in a reasonable price. Gonna rot rod my LP Studio with it and be happy again. Thank you Maricela!
Lucius, I got lucky and have a TB-4 "J" in my '91 ESP M-ll Deluxe. It is a pre-logo, and I always wondered what the "J" stood for. It's going on 30 years old now, and is the best sounding JB I've ever heard.
Regards 🎸
Seymour Duncan and MJ here revealed the truth and nothing but the truth...and this is exactly what I did with my 100-dollar MIM Fender Strat HSS which I bought from a pawnshop. I've slapped a Seymour Duncan SH-1 '59 model, and SSL-1 in both middle and the neck...This guitar sounded like a million bucks and turned in to a "tone machine", and all it's because of SD pickups! So for that, thank you, Seymour from the bottom of my heart. You're always be the man...the king of tone ! God bless you and all your people...:)
My two mentors, when I started playing I used duncuns, which got me interested in making pickups and so I started building my own now I have my own small company, I make alot of my parts myself, I make the keeper bars, with a specific steel and custom made screws, putting time into a pickup is how you get a great sound and these 2 are the best at it. Thank you for inspiring me Seymour and mj.
Hey Maricela, I just want to thank you so much for creating my "GREENIE" bridge pickup that has a coil tap, it sounds AMAZING in my Les Paul. It is has great clarity but rocks when called upon quite nicely, the single coil sound is sweet too. I've got your P-90 / Blade humbucker in my neck position and they sound nice together. Yep I'm a very satisfied customer, , and that picture of Seymour with Hendrix is so great.
B Wigley You're welcome!
Hi guys - I have a question for MJ - do you play guitar? If yes tell us more like what style, what guitar(s) which pickups do you love the most? Thanks - I love these Seymour’s Studio videos - you guys totally rock!
Thanx for your great work, mr. Duncan
So cool to see you guys and hear the history. Thanks Seymour and MJ for making me sound so much better than I would otherwise. My ES330 with the custom P90 stacks is still the pride of my collection. MMmmmmm MMMMmmmmmm MMMMMMM!
Maricela rocks. She’s fantastic
I am very happy to know that the love to the job is this way. I use a lot of Duncans and I am a big fan...and now, after seeing that video I became an even bigger fan ! Congratulations and go on with the marvelous job.
Well, I don't who made the Blackouts but he/she deserves all my gratitude. Many thanks your pups are highly appreciated!
I just found your channel, I've been chasing the old Scotty Moore sound for fifty years, and found the Vince Gordan website where he used your Alinco V P90 Staple bridge pickup to get the sound, and lo and behold it costs $250 dollars, so I had to put my pipe dream to bed because on my fixed income of $980 dollars a month I couldn't afford it though, they sound great by those who use them on youtube, I just wish they were not so expensive.
This was the only shop where I was able get a humbucking dog ear for about $180
Great work and fast like a month for a custom pickup
The one true pick-up artist!
I have an old JB I bought in 1983 or 84 that has MJ's initials.
I have an overwound brobucker from the SD Custom shop, and it is an ABSOLUTELY amazing pickup with SSL-1s in the front and mid to compliment it. SD is amazing, the SD CS, a league of its own.
So awesome! My buddy has a custom shop pick-up from Duncan and MJ. He spoke to her personally. Said she's cool as shit and knows her stuff. Gotta love that!
I have to tell you, I have a cheap 2002 Ibanez S370 and I installed you SH-4 in my neck, Quarter pound strat, and SH-6 Distortion in the bridge. Best choice I've ever made!!!!
Wonderful! Happy you have your own tone now!
this video gave me a better approach for both, Seymour and MJ not just as human beings but as pickup builders as well and I've been having the chance to talk and to share with MJ but for some reasons our chattings go quite into business...nice video!
I have a SH5 with the DCJ sticker on it, it can be assumed that Maricela wound it. It sounds incredible and is the best sounding pickup I have ever played. I play Thrash Metal, and there is some SERIOUS chunk to it. It's like biting into a gigantic Snickers bar and having your mouth full of yummy caramel goodiness.
i just ordered duncan custom some wks ago comes 10-24-17 can't wait.
Seymour..."yo da man! Anyone that can turn a passion, into a hobby into a million dollar
pickup industry leader in making boutique, vintage and antiquity pickups..I bow down to
you in Homage.
SD talking about Robbie Roberston and "The Band"..I have that video "The Last Waltz"..
classic music from the early 70s..
Used to see them live in Toronto in the late sixties. Love those snarling Teles. The "Toronto Sound."
It's so awesome to know that someone on the planet is this into pickup
WOW Very Cool!!
M.J. Made my Custom shop RTM De Martini Pick up.
She is a Very Cool Person.
RnR
Thanks guys
Well, the STL-1B was the inspiration for the heart of my latest project. Love nocasters, but I would never afford one, so I transformed a Squier Affinity tele into a nocaster tribute by swapping the modern hardware for vintage style, as well as making a new Squier logo akin to the 50s style and relocating it. I've been winding pickups using houshold stuff and parts salvaged from other pickups, just to learn. Finally got the parts to build a proper pickup. What I came up with was A5 rods, copper baseplate, cloth pushback, and 43 gauge coil wire. I was going for around the 8k of the STL-1B, but I was hand winding, so when I accidentally broke the wire at 7.5k, I stopped. Nevertheless, it sounds great and brings a dimension the stock ceramic pickup just didn't have. Next step is to convert the ceramic neck pickup to alnico 5 rods.
The Dynamic Duo!
One of Fender's best kept secrets(shhhhhh, don't tell anyone!) is the Korean made Esquire series Scorpion, Celtic, GTs. I just got another one (Red GT) with the SD Invader in it and let me tell ya! Hot, hot , hot. Amazing to think of how much you and your people are responsible for the most iconic good juju that we all hear and love. Thanks for being THE sound source.
thanks seymour you are amaizing
Great show. I used to see Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks at the Hawk's Nest on Yonge St in Toronto. Every serious guitarist in Toronto at the time used a Tele, and they all did the "Toronto sound," a very fast and distorted vibrato: check Robbie Robertson on John Hammond Jr's CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK, for a perfect example of it; or OPPORTUNITY by the Mandala (on RUclips). Nobody does it anymore it seems, but I do it.
Seymour Duncan AND Floyd Rose both worked at Kramer? Wow.
You are both GREAT!!
Seymour Duncan rules
Fantastic.
Hi, with a leap of faith I just installed a Nazgul bridge into my Ibanez SA - and boy did it put a smile on my face! The factory humbucker was ok, but as expected the guitar now has much more sustain and richness (for rock/metal distortion/soloing). As you say, a cheaper 'so-so' guitar has just become something I look forward to picking up at the end of the working day. As a result I want to fit a Black Winter set into my RG8 next (where the factory pickups are the worst I've ever heard). This leads to my question: without taking anything away from manufacturers in general, I'd be fascinated to hear why factory spec components don't always measure up - is it cost, design, time..? How do manufacturers approach this aspect - considering the rest of the instrument is usually perfectly fine? As a contrast my favourite guitar is an Ibanes Premium Red Desert, which has the CAP pickups as standard, and are perfect for me just as they are. So, as your business is largely built on this 'shortcoming', I think many others would like to know your thoughts/opinions? Thanks.
MJ, cuando regresas a México a dar una clínica? me encantaría conocer a la leyenda.
Youre the man Seymour!
Anyone notice her necklace?
Mr. Duncan, I'd really like to congratulate you and your entire company. I too play the guitar, and I currently have more than one with pickups from your company. One thing I've been wondering is does your company make pickups like the Gibson dirty fingers pickups? I like the sound of them. And another thing I'd like to know about your pickups is what's the difference between humbucker and trembucker pickups? If you'd like any more ideas or suggestions on making new pickups, I already have a few in mind.
If I dreamed it, I would dream of a low output vintage type single coil with good midrange and takes overdrive pedals well.
PS - I had NO IDEA the weight of the guitar made a difference. Seymour and MJ are the dream team !!!!
Sigh.....it doesn't
@@timcole421 Personally I think weight does make a difference but it’s minor and negligible to the point that it doesn’t matter unless if you’re ultra picky
Ever make pickups for George Harrison MBE? I’m chasing that gorgeous slide tone. Up to 4 strats, and no luck yet
MJ..yo is da woman! Anyone that can understand, follow electrical and pup winding specs and keep it consistent over the years..is an "artist" in my book! It's not just
"black magjc"..it's a science!
custom neck SLUG pickup!!! I want a set of SLUGS in my new custom guitar
customshop.seymourduncan.com/slug/
Who's doing the tasty shredding in the intro?
Awesome!
0.5lbs x10 (times bigger) = 5lbs
Takes 2 for HB for 5 lbs x 2 (bobbins) = 10lbs is my answer :)
126 pounds.thanks.i'll have a greenie neck paf!
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ALLAN HOLDSWORTH !!!!!!!
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Hey Seymour and M.J.! I just emailed you today with a huge bunch of pickups I need your help with. My Gibson WRC SR-71 has a twin now and I need replication of #1's pickups etc.... One Love! Thomas Adams
Hang tight! We are working our way though emails...we *will* get back to you!
Thank You Very Much!! Much Respect. Thomas Adams 11:11
1:20 el buki lol
44:15 how much did it end up weighing?
158 pounds. But that's just an educated guess =) People are missing the additional weight of the magnet in their guesses. The pickup doesn't have ten magnets.. it has (get ready for this) ...around 1000 magnets...glued together. And then there's the weight of the giant steel polepieces...
You should totally sell overwound tele pickups
We totally do! You can find a bunch of them here: www.seymourduncan.com/pickups/guitars/telecaster?meta_params=output=Medium&solo=1&post_t=product-pickups&taxonomy_slug=telecaster&taxonomy=pickup-types&order_by=
Seymour Duncan hello sir.. I love your products .. is it true that Larry dimarzio used to work for you or that you taught him the trade . What is your opinion regarding Dimarzio PU vs Duncan's in terms of tone. Also to answer the question to the weight of the PU , since everything would have to be 10 times bigger , that would mean the wires and magnets too would have to weigh a lot more . My guess is 156 pounds ..
Be blessed
There needs to be some kind of reward for whomever comes to them with a custom request and stumps them, because that would be a feat. I sincerely doubt there is anyone that knows more about electric guitar pickups than these two. DiMarzio, Fralin and others might know _as_ _much_... but I sincerely doubt anyone knows more.
158 pounds. Am I close??
Have some respect for the pickup guru and his assistant. :-)
90 lbs ?
Google: The Paleo Diet
The next Floyd Rose?
Like 335 💫⚡🔱⚡💫
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like 10 lbs
I found the weight of the pup.
per the SD site, 158 lbs :-)
Jason
That into is way too long haha.