Is Parallel Axis a Seymour pickup?

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Confusion is the word...
I've found a set of Patb-1s from this guy for a nice price.It seems quite interesting...But. Reviews are so hard to find.Talking on the local forum about these pickups never came to a conclusion.The most common opinion was something like "anyway,good sounding pups but they are not what you'd expect from a Dunkan".Now,is that necessarilly bad?Also i get the feeling that they are rather the most sidelined Seymour pickups at this point...
Any thoughts?
 
Re: Is Parallel Axis a Seymour pickup?

Yes of course it is a Seymour pickup.

They aren't all that popular (despite sounding great), because of the unconventional design/appearance. They were designed to add meat and thickness to otherwise thin sounding guitars with Floyds or other trem-equipped guitars.
 
Re: Is Parallel Axis a Seymour pickup?

ConvoysToNothingness said:
Yes of course it is a Seymour pickup.

They aren't all that popular (despite sounding great), because of the unconventional design/appearance. They were designed to add meat and thickness to otherwise thin sounding guitars with Floyds or other trem-equipped guitars.
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A blues player told me he was desperately trying to pull some dirt out of them...
 
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As in they were too clean and not hairy enough.....I can almost understand that comment.

The PATB series is a modern voiced pickup. With the abundance of preamp gain on tap from Mesa boogie or the 5150, the conventional SD pickup can sound wooly under high gain. The PATB never really sounds out of its depth when you stack the gain on, and it can sound quite chimey with clean tone. Typical of tones needed for modern metal or rock.
The typical blues tone of fat clean or borderline driven amp tone is not really the aim for this pickup.
 
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I have a PATB-1 set and a single PATB-1b. great pickups.

if not for the JB, this would be on the top of my list for a bridge pup.
 
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There's a reason that two out of four SDUGF pickups utilize at least one PATB bobbin. They're great at what they do. What they do however is add a fuller sound to tremolo-equipped guitars with more highs and more lows without getting mushy or undefined. They are as such more oriented to either a very clean or very clear overdriven tone, not so much for all the in-between.

That's not to say they can't do the "Almost-break-up-but-not-quite" thing, I have a Custom 8 and it does it just fine, however it wouldn't be my first choice. Balls-to-the-walls overdriven tone that stays defined however is where the Crazy 8 shines!

I hear the PATB-3 is a jack-of-all-trades in that department, in fact although I have never tried it myself, every single comment I have read about it has only ever been good.
 
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I'd say the PATB1 (neck and bridge) and PATB3 are possibly the best Duncan pickups I've ever played. The only thing about them that's not awesome is how they're a little bit wider than regular humbuckers. That can make them impossible to just swap in where other humubckers are unless you want to take a file to the insides of your pickup mounting ring (which I have done in the past). I kind of feel like the PATB1 set fixes everything I find annoying about the typical 59 neck - JB bridge combo. But hey, to each his own.
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grey said:
A blues player told me he was desperately trying to pull some dirt out of them...
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He doesn't sound like a gear-savvy kind of guy... maybe he didn't even wire'em correctly.
 
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The patb series. love m. all of them i agree with the 'fixes yhe jb 59 set issues' comment and i can only attest to the sheer awesomeness of the patb3. it sounds soo sweet in a les paul. like a paf that has been on a mcdonalds diet...

Imho they work great in les pauls and strats alike. they do retain a lot of clarity. even my favorite high outout bucker the patb 1 2 hybrid alnico8. rolling down the volume will give yiu a cleaner sound. Rolling volume downnon an antiquuty hymbuvker will give me a crunchy tone and rolled down even ferther its a sparkly clean tone. with the patb12 a8 its no crunch or dirt but instantky to sparkkyish cleans. no raunchydirt. thats nit a pot issue or an issue at all. Its a feature cause it makes me pick differebtky to get a crunch. Providing i dont wanna tinker with the amp and want it set at 1 volume. Which is no strange thing to me...

So... Yeah i love m. Got6 of them and i am still impressed. In any format!
 
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LtKojak said:
He doesn't sound like a gear-savvy kind of guy... maybe he didn't even wire'em correctly.
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It wasn't his gear,if i got it well...But there always lies an issue.
Many hip players claim that with the right adjustments you can get any sound out of any pickup.That could be technically right,fine with me.But imagine the SD site describing it's products somewhat like this:"A stunning pickup!If use that wiring you'll get this sound.If use those magnets you'll get this sound.If use those amps,pedals........You get my point?There's got to be some things that a pickup does well and some things that it does not!And it's hard to think that a blues kind of guy would consider the Patbs as one of his top replacement choises.Not playing smartass here,just my two cents...
 
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I recorded all the rhythm tracks on our last album using the PA TB 2 Distortion. It has broad wide sound and very growly mids, great for thrash metal!!!
 
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