Seymour Duncan The Green Magic Humbucker 🧩

The Green Magic Humbucker

Guitarists have long sought out the lonesome hollow blues rock tones that emerged in the late 60’s. For one guitarist, his signature tone was achieved as the result of a fortunate accident – a pickup with a magnet installed backwards.

With the Green Magics, when each pickup is chosen individually, you’ll get the classic neck and bridge tones expected with vintage voiced humbuckers. In the combined position, with the neck pickup’s reversed magnet, the pickups will be out of phase with each other, giving the clarity and expressiveness generally associated with single coils.

We get asked a ton of questions about lipstick single-coil pickups. We’re asked everything from what they sound like to “Will they fit in my guitar?” and more. We understand the questions. They’re unique pickups, different from a Tele neck pickup, different from a Stratocaster single-coil pickup. They’re their own thing.

So what are they? To answer that question, we’ll have to dig into their history, lipstick pickup construction, and their relationship to Danelectro guitars.

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