Seymour Duncan 2011'de ar-ge çalışmalarının yansımalarıyla kendinden epey söz ettirmişti. LIBERATOR™ ve Blackouts Modular Preamp bunların en önemlilerindendi.
Duncan yıllardır metal çalan gitaristleri ikilemde bırakan bir konuya daha ilaç olacağa benziyor. Hem yırtıcı aktif hem de geleneksel pasif manyetiklerin avantajlarını birleştiren yepyeni bir sistem sunuyor; Gus G. FIRE Blackouts Sistemi
Bu sistemle gitaristlere her iki manyetik sisteminin de olumlu yönlerini yaşama avantajı sağlayan sistem iki adet humbucker ve üç adet de 25K potansiyometreden oluşmakta.
Sistemin başlıca avantajları;
• Tüm avantajları ile geleneksel humbucker mimarisi...
• Alnico 5 mıknatıslar ve sağladığı avantajlar. Ayrıca köprü modelindeki daha geniş mıknatıs daha fazla low-mid sunmakta ve dolayısıyla daha dolu dolu solo tonlarına ulaşılmakta.
• Özel sarılmış bobinler ile daha canlı bir sound.
• Yüksek çıkışlı, düşük gürültülü, özel tasarlanmış çifte preamfinin pasif stil manyetiklerinin yakaladığı her nüansı yakalayabilecek olması ki diğer aktif manyetikler çok çabuk clipping'e uğradığından dinamiklerde kayıp yaratmaktadırlar.
• Uzun pil ömrü. Tek bir 9V pil ile 750 saat kullanım.
• Lehimsiz, havyasız sadece vidalama ile montaj yapılabilirlik.
• İlave üç 25K pot daha içermesi.
• Organik sound. Preamfi tarafından şekillendirilmiş, her gitarda aynı çıkan değil ağacı hissedebileceğiniz, tuşenize göre değişiklik gösterebilen, dinamiklere açık bir gitar soundu...
Seymour Duncan Frank Felbo, bu sistemin diğer Blackout'lardan farkını ise şöyle açıklamakta;
First, The Blackouts Metal is essentially a Blackouts version of the old Livewire Heavy Metal. I wouldn't say it has any connection to the rest of the Blackouts sonically, it's more of a searing midrange boost or a pickup with a Tube Screamer already on. It just slices your amp in half like a ninja sword.
Assuming you're familiar with the Original Blackouts, the Mick Thomson EMTY's are more crisp and cutting in the top end, and they stay tighter and very well defined on the low end especially for drop tuning.
The Blackouts Modular system is a way to get the sound of Original Blackouts but in a passive pickup/external preamp configuration. This brings with it THREE distinct differences. One is the simple fact that you can have Blackouts tone and power with a passive look. Like a hot-rodded car that looks stock from the outside. Secondly the tone is slightly changed by the fact that the magnet and pole pieces are more traditional. So the feel and note-to-note separation is slightly more passive. Original Blackouts have solid blades or magnet bars under the strings. The third benefit, most most succinctly evidenced in the Gus G Fire system, is that you can now use that same Blackouts Preamp but feed it with different 4-Conductor pickups to create your own unique combination of passive pickups/active Blackouts preamp. Gus did exactly that. We worked with him to create pickups that, when fed into the Blackouts Preamp, gave him the exact sound he was looking for.
If you know Gus, then you know he is a long-time Distortion/59 user. So if you're familiar with that setup you know what he likes and why he likes it. Then more recently he tried and loved Blackouts. Then, we launched the Modular Preamp and Coil Packs, and he loved those because they combined what he liked about the sound and feel of passive pickups with his newfound affection for Blackouts. Now, the coils, the preamp, the magnet, the wire, the wind, have all been perfected for Gus.
The tone is thick and beefy like the Original Blackouts. There is a little high end glass like you hear with the Mick Thomson but the sound is not as tight and precise as the EMTY. It's throatier and growlier. The string to string balance is like any passive pickup feeding the Blackouts Preamp. Overall the tone is huge and punching, like literally punching you in the stomach. It's raging. The neck pickup is smooth and articulate, very fluid for soloing.
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