Covered Trembuckers Available from Seymour Duncan
November 3, 2004
In response to increasing customer demand,
Seymour Duncan, the Santa Barbara-based pickup company, will now offer their
popular Trembucker pickup range in nickel and gold-plated covers.
"Trembucker" is Seymour Duncan's brand name for their wider-spaced
humbucking pickups, designed to fit the string spacing most commonly
associated with Floyd Rose or vintage vibrato bridges (often called
tremolos) with a string spacing of 2.070" or 52.6mm, measured
center-of-high-string-to-center-of-low-string over the bridge pickup. This
spacing issue usually applies to the bridge position pickup only, which is
why Trembuckers are recommended for the bridge position.
The covered Trembuckers feature a cover
material comprised of a nickel silver substrate, which is hand-buffed and
plated in either nickel or 24-karat hard gold. After the cover is installed,
the pickups are vacuum wax potted for squeal-free performance and then
hand-polished. The nickel silver material was chosen
for its non-ferrous properties, which do not influence the sound of the
pickup. Duncan also uses the same material on their covered standard
humbucker pickups, designed for bridges with string spacing of 1.930" or
49mm.
Most Duncan humbuckers are also available in
the wider-spaced Trembucker version. For example, their SH-4 JB
Model is humbucker-spaced; while the TB-4 JB Trembucker is the wider-spaced
version of the same pickup. "Now, both versions will be available with
covers," says Billy Gill, Seymour Duncan's Sales Manager. "If you're not
sure if you need a humbucker or a Trembucker, just measure from the middle
of the high string to the middle of the low string, directly over the bridge
pickup. If it's greater than two inches or 50mm, go for a Trembucker. If
it's less than two inches or 50mm, go for a humbucker."
For more information, visit their web site at www.seymourduncan.com. |
