Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Status
Not open for further replies.
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Kinda nitpicky, but there are several grammatical errors in the pickup descriptions.
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Unless Duncan changed the Trembucker baseplates, all p'ups shown as Trembuckers are wrong, but the Perpetual Burn.

HTH,
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

On the current site the Pearly Gates DCR is 7.3k neck & 8.21k bridge. On the new site they are 14k neck & 16k bridge. Miss print?
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

This was brought up once before some time ago and it was explained that colored pickups were difficult to represent accurately online due to the variations in computer displays. What appears as burgundy on one monitor may appear more purplish on another, or more reddish on another.

We will be able to more accurately show the color bobbins and have a page laid out for it. That said, it will still be a shop floor custom and take time.


Kojack I'll check on those trembuckers




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Kinda nitpicky, but there are several grammatical errors in the pickup descriptions.
Yeah, I saw that. Also, the descriptions for the Antiquity Jazz Bass neck and bridge:

"Like an old photograph, the tone of the Antiquity for Jazz Bass can spark memories of days gone by and the memories of another era." Redundancy post is redundant, even with its own repetition.

Randy Bachman's artist page thumbnail may need to be re-framed:
42-Center-300x300.jpg


This might be a little gripey, but there's a lot of metal artists... I mean, a lot. Does this need to be balanced out, or is that what you were going for?
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Good catch, that was not on my list of pages containing dummy text. I've edited it for the time being, check it out now ;)

Can you let me know what combinations you put in the Pickup Selector to receive those results?
HSS
Classic Rock
Warmer/Fatter
Vintage Trem
Alder
Maple

I was coming from the POV of a MIM HSS Strat.
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

This was brought up once before some time ago and it was explained that colored pickups were difficult to represent accurately online due to the variations in computer displays. What appears as burgundy on one monitor may appear more purplish on another, or more reddish on another.

That's fine, but I still would like "more clarity" to be on option on the pickup wizard.
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Isn't there one that covers "articulation"? Same diff.

Is there? I'll have to go back and look at that.

EDIT:
No articulation or more clarity option.

There is a cleaner/ brighter option but I don't think that's really the same thing.
 
Last edited:
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

There is some incorrect information on the artist pages. For example, Dave Murray is listed using the custom custom and hot rails neck and bridge, while he also uses a JB jr in the middle position. He also uses the JB and '59 on his Les Pauls. I don't know how accurate the information about the CC is. I don't think he's using it nowadays, maybe he did in the 90's.
Janick Gers is listed using the hot rails neck and bridge and JB Jr. neck. In reality he uses the JB Jr. neck and bridge and has in some guitars a hot rails in the middle position. He did use hot rails in the neck and bridge positions during the 90's, but now he has the JB Jr. neck and bridge in all his strats.
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Is there anything like the old tone chart left that had a big table for all pickups with some base data?
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

I actually liked the old site better, maybe except the outdated "pickup picker". The new site reminds me a whole lot of the Dimarzio and GFS sites.

And how accurate are those mV readings actually? I've seen some strange things, such as a lil '59 bridge having more output than a hot rails (???????!!!), while the description says the opposite (which should be correct).
 
Last edited:
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

I actually liked the old site better, maybe except the outdated "pickup picker". The new site reminds me a whole lot of the Dimarzio and GFS sites.

And how accurate are those mV readings actually? I've seen some strange things, such as a lil '59 bridge having more output than a hot rails (???????!!!), while the description sais the opposite (which should be correct).
I've seen several unprobable mV readings... like both neck and bridge Seth Lovers have EXACTLY the same output in mV, when we know it's impossible, as there is about 12% more wire in the bridge model... which defy the laws of physics... or the bridge magnet was about 12% degaussed? ;)
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

Some good input here. Thanks everyone.

Add "more clarity" to pickup selector. -- do you also mean more articulation or a flatter cleaner response?

For pickups that an artist uses, we did decided that we would include those used over their history , and not just currently.

The mV issue. -- we had great internal conversations about this. And as so many of you understand and have pointed out, you can easily get false readings if you are not religiously consistent in the testing protocol. Kevin Beller oversaw this process. If I recall correctly he pulled five from stock of every model, installed each of them in an instrument, developed a spring-loaded arm that "strum the strings." And went about testing them. That said I will look for any inputting errors.

Re old tone chart -- check out support/pickups/comparison-audio. This is a sortable chart (by Manet type, output etc ). Just have to select hub keeps, strats etc first




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

The Comparison Audio page's description is a bunch of latin words that even Google Translate can't do it's job, but other than that, good job on redoing the Seymour Duncan website
 
Re: Explore The NEW SeymourDuncan.com

If it's ok, I'll edit this post as I find bugs or think of suggestions for improvement.

[Minor issues/cleanup points]
-The "Lorem ipsum" is still on the Pickup Selector page, next to "What's your setup?".
-Under Step 2: Details (pickup selector), Basswood and Maple body woods are on the same selection icon
-The Old Musty Archives link at the bottom takes you right back to the page you're already on.

[General observations]
-Haven't gone through all the wiring diagrams, but I do like what I've seen. Not as user-friendly as the huge drop-down list for each pickup type, but more organized.

[Issues - Wiring Diagrams]
- There's no way to select split/phase/etc accessory switching at all, even when selecting options that had those variants in the old diagrams, except general overviews of the concepts down in the Misc Wiring section. Those variants aren't appearing in the list of alternate diagrams, either, except one: the H-S-H layout offers a "with push pull" optional diagram.
- There's no 3-hum option (LP Custom), only H-S-H or H-PhatCat-H

[Commentary - Wiring Diagrams page]
Just to be anal, I'd have "Humbucker" as the first option in the "Select Neck pickup" list, and move P90/P90 stack down near P-Rail and Phat Cat just to keep it alphabetical.
Humbucker diagrams can be applied to any 4-conductor, whether it's a Jr/Lil or a full-sized, so being able to select a general pickup formatting quickly would help with conversion of wiring concepts. Certainly a 2-hum layout is more common than a H-P90 or Passive bridge-Blackout neck layout, so having Humbucker as the first option for both neck and bridge would make more sense.

Good catch on the basswood maple, there is to be a separate field for maple top, it should actually say Basswood/Poplar. As for the wiring diagrams, we will discuss re-ordering them, I agree I usually find most used easier than alphabetical. You can get the series/split by clicking on the drop-down box once it gives you a single diagram (but maybe this isn't obvious enough).
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top