Seymour Duncan Nashville Studio(TM) Pickups
for Stratocaster®Five-Two(TM) Series Continues
 June 10, 1999 The Nashville Studio(TM) replacement
pickup for Stratocaster® guitars started out in the Seymour Duncan® Custom
Shop. Seymour designed it for some of the world's most popular studio musicians.
Not merely a "Country" pickup, it's easily adaptable to any musical style. It
achieved such phenomenal popularity, the pickup giant decided to release it to
the public.
Seymour
uses alnico in so many of his Strat® replacement pickups because its lower
string pull and softer magnetic field improve sustain and help smooth out the
tone. The Five-Two is the pickup guru's first product line to combine multiple
alnico magnet types strategically placed to deliver a bright and springy bottom
end and a full and smooth top end.
Here's how the Five-Two concept works: Seymour utilizes sand cast alnico 5
magnets on the three low strings. This adds more definition and punch to the bottom
end. Seymour uses sand cast alnico 2 magnets on the three high strings. This gives
the player a warm and smooth top end without sacrificing that great Strat "quack."
Strat players often complain that their low strings sound "mushy" and their high
strings are too bright especially in the bridge position. The FiveTwo concept
counteracts this phenomenon. If you look closely at the pickup, you can actually
see the difference between the two magnet types.
The result is an all-around, well-balanced, Strat pickup. The Five-Two for
Strat has traditional output and vintage appointments such as vulcanized fibre
bobbins, formvar wire, a vintage magnet stagger and waxed cloth hookup cable.
A custom bridge version is available for more output in the bridge position and
a reverse wound, reverse polarity middle pickup can be used to create a hum-canceling
effect when used together with the bridge or neck pickup.
Like all Seymour Duncan pickups, all Five-Two pickups are entirely hand built
in the company's Santa Barbara, California facility and include mounting hardware
and wiring diagrams.
For more information, contact Seymour Duncan at http://www.seymourduncan.com
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