Seymour Duncan Blackouts Modular Preamp

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Is anyone out here interested in this? It is suppose to take any passive pickup and make it a active (blackout) pickup while retaining some of the passive tonal qualities.

I am very interested in this myself but I can't get a release date on it yet.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blackouts/
 
I think it sounds interesting, I wouldn't mind giving it a try. WOuld be nice to see a push/pull pot type thing with that though.

Any idea on what those thing will be priced at? I've be thinking about re-doing all the electronics in one of my guitars as they are starting to fail. Might give this a go before I swap the pickups to see how much of an effect it has on the tone and if I even need to upgrade at all.
 
Wow, that duncan demo is quite possibly the worst demo of all time...and I am not even talking about the product.
 
If it doesn't have a push/pull, it's the most useless product ever. Why not just get a regular set of Blackouts and be done with it?
 
madrigal77":lje6tfoe said:
If it doesn't have a push/pull, it's the most useless product ever. Why not just get a regular set of Blackouts and be done with it?
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As stated in the OP. It is suppose to take any passive pickup and make it a active (blackout) pickup WHILE RETAINING SOME OF THE PASSIVE TONAL QUALITIES.
 
Beyond Black":g5bziavy said:
madrigal77":g5bziavy said:
If it doesn't have a push/pull, it's the most useless product ever. Why not just get a regular set of Blackouts and be done with it?
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As stated in the OP. It is suppose to take any passive pickup and make it a active (blackout) pickup WHILE RETAINING SOME OF THE PASSIVE TONAL QUALITIES.
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The Dimarzio Shockwave did that like 20 some odd years ago. I have three of them and use them in quite a few of my guitars. It might not be the same exact thing, but it does just that. It is a preamp that can be used with any passive guitars. The best part is that it doesn't make your pickups all sound the same. It just adds an active circuit to them. If you use it with Shockwave pickup system, them you get a full system. Those pickups were single coil style that looked like single coil emgs. They were more vintage voiced than high gain, and when the preamp was engaged you got a high gain, humbucker mode out of the vintage voiced single coils. It is a very versatile system, and this was from the early to mid '80s.
 
I just bought a set of Duncan Distortions for my RG. They sound good but are a bit noisy for my taste. I can't return them cause they were modified to fit the Dimarzio direct mount body cuts of the guitar. I was on the fence for blackouts in the first place. So in theory this will give me the best of both worlds (look and sound). And it I would guess it will only be a $50 additional investment or so.
 
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