Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

[zontar]

So I check out the Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page
And everything I pick keeps coming back with 59's as a suggestion, but no JB's or P-Rails--or Duncan Distortions--which is what I do have.


Which is fine--I love the pickups I have, and my LP & LP copy both sound great.

Anybody here ever try this Tone Wizard?

Kind of fun.

[metalmachine]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

It always suggest me a Jb or a custom

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

Instrument: Guitar
Guitar Type: Les Paul or similar
Music Style:Hard Rock Metal
Guitar body wood: Mahogany
Fretboard wood: Rosewood
Bridge Type: Standard

SD Suggests
Bridge 1 SH-4 JB Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Bridge 2 SH-5 Duncan Custom Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 1 SH-1N '59 Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 2 SH-2N Jazz Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart

So yeah, if you put in those options, you should get more than just the 59 as a suggestion.

Unless your point was merely that it never recommends the DD or P-Rails?

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

By comparison, let's change the style of music to Fusion:

Instrument: Guitar
Guitar Type: Les Paul or similar
Music Style:Fusion
Guitar body wood: Mahogany
Fretboard wood: Rosewood
Bridge Type: Standard

SD Suggests

Bridge 1 SH-4 JB Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Bridge 2 SH-5 Duncan Custom Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 1 SH-1N '59 Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 2 SH-2N Jazz Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart


Blues/Country?

Instrument: Guitar
Guitar Type: Les Paul or similar
Music Style:Blues Country
Guitar body wood: Mahogany
Fretboard wood: Rosewood
Bridge Type: Standard

SD Suggests

Bridge 1 SH-1B '59 Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Bridge 2 SH-4 JB Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 1 SH-1N '59 Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 2 SH-2N Jazz Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart


Blues/Jazz?

Instrument: Guitar
Guitar Type: Les Paul or similar
Music Style:Blues Jazz
Guitar body wood: Mahogany
Fretboard wood: Rosewood
Bridge Type: Standard

SD Suggests

Bridge 1 SH-1B '59 Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Bridge 2 SH-4 JB Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 1 SH-1N '59 Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart
Neck 2 SH-2N Jazz Model Audio Samples Description Tonechart


Now we're starting to see a problem IMO - pickup choice is being determined by the guitar.
This renders the Tone Wizard ineffectual. You may as well throw up a page that says "If you play a Les Paul-type guitar with mahogany body and neck, use 2 of these 4 pickups regardless of what you play.

[uOpt]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

I always suspected that this thing's suggestions depended more on your OS and browser ID than what you fill in.

"Uh... Apple nerd, OK then..."

[DeanSweden]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

How does iy compare to DMZs Pickup Picker?

[dingleberry]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

The dimarzio one has an extra field, the 'problem to be solved' field. It ask if you're looking for more output, clarity, warmth, etc, which is a cool feature. That being said it always recommends super d for me lol

Oh yeah and you have to choose neck or bridge position too

[darthphineas]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

from what I just heard yesterday, there are a few updates/upgrades coming to the Tone Wizard function.

[papersoul]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

Tone Wizard is sort of a joke in my opinion.

[DeanSweden]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

from what I just heard yesterday, there are a few updates/upgrades coming to the Tone Wizard function.

about time

[brunogio]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

I think there are a good many pickups that have been issued that are not suggested by the Tone Wizard. So I wouldn't rely too heavily.

Also kind of a bummer that not all the pups have a tone sample available.

[DeanSweden]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

Also kind of a bummer that not all the pups have a tone sample available.

could be fixed easily though.
Seymour seems to have great relations with his endorsees

[lazyfinger]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

It told me to find the one pickup to rule them all.

[El Supremo]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

It's just a suggestion really, but...

Might also be handy to be able to specify if:

the guitar is neck-through, glued or bolt-on (big difference in influence of body wood)
24 or 22 fret and what scale (mostly for chosing the neck pickup)

Also being to able to chose between tunings might be handy. Something that works great in standard E tuning might not cut it when tuned to standard B for example.
It could use an extra option though, so 3 instead of 2 recommendations.

[zontar]

Re: Seymour Duncan Tone Wizard page

It told me to find the one pickup to rule them all.

But you'll need to toss it into Mount Doom...