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Seymour Duncan pickups guitar tones

Songs whose original tone used a Seymour Duncan pickups. Don’t own one? GuitarToneAdapt re-creates the sound on the pickup type and rig you actually have.

Seymour Duncan makes some of the most-used replacement pickups in rock and metal — the JB (SH-4) is a hot, aggressive, mid-forward bridge humbucker in countless guitars, while the ’59 is a vintage-output PAF-style with a warmer, more open voice. Passive and highly dynamic, they respond to pick attack and volume rolloff. The exact model changes how much gain and treble you need to match a record — GuitarToneAdapt accounts for the pickup voicing.

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Sweet Child O' Mine — Guns N' Roses My Own Summer (Shove It) — Deftones Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love — Van Halen Unholy Confessions — Avenged Sevenfold Sweet Child O' Mine — Guns N' Roses Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana November Rain — Guns N' Roses Welcome To The Jungle — Guns N' Roses Basket Case — Green Day When I Come Around — Green Day Beat It — Michael Jackson For Whom the Bell Tolls — Metallica Animal I Have Become — Three Days Grace Dammit — blink-182 Symphony of Destruction — Megadeth Chapter Four — Avenged Sevenfold Entombed — Deftones Floods — Pantera Clairvoyant Disease — Avenged Sevenfold In My Darkest Hour — Megadeth Passenger — Deftones All She Wrote (2024 Remaster) — FireHouse Decadence Dance — EXTREME In My Dreams — Dokken Change (In the House of Flies) — Deftones Second Heartbeat — Avenged Sevenfold Inside Out — XYZ Stay Together for the Kids — blink-182 Hole In the Earth — Deftones 5 Minutes Alone — Pantera Love, Hate, Love — Alice in Chains Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche' — Escape the Fate Lithium — Nirvana Orion — Metallica Paradise City — Guns N' Roses The Devil In I — Slipknot hail to the king — Avenged Sevenfold Thank You for the Venom (2025 Mix) — My Chemical Romance How Far Does A Goodbye Go — Jason Aldean I Stay Away — Alice in Chains Drain You (Live At Del Mar Fairgrounds, CA., December 28, 1991) — Nirvana Rape Me — Nirvana Peace Sells — Megadeth Rooster — Alice in Chains In My Dreams — Dokken I Won't See You Tonight, Pt. 1 — Avenged Sevenfold The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster) — Iron Maiden Hangar 18 — Megadeth Do the Evolution — Pearl Jam Back for More — Ratt The Ultimate Sin — Ozzy Osbourne Unfamiliar — Currents First Date — blink-182 Buried Alive — Avenged Sevenfold Welcome To The Jungle — Guns N' Roses (Anesthesia)—Pulling Teeth — Metallica We Die Young — Alice in Chains Welcome to the Family — Avenged Sevenfold Talk Dirty to Me — Poison The Grudge — TOOL My Curse — Killswitch Engage Pink Maggit — Deftones Purnota — Warfaze Mr. Brownstone (Live) — Guns N' Roses Heavy Fuel (Live Album Version) — Dire Straits I Don't Wanna Be Me — Type O Negative Dancing Dead — Avenged Sevenfold Hangar 18 (2004 Remix) — Megadeth November Rain — Guns N' Roses Stay Together for the Kids — blink-182 Gone Away — Five Finger Death Punch Cemetary Gates — Pantera Plump — Hole Whatsername — Green Day Laid to Rest — Lamb of God Schism — TOOL Lateralus — TOOL Forty Six & 2 — TOOL Eternally Yours — Motionless in White Voices — Motionless in White Another Life — Motionless in White Before I Forget — Slipknot Wait and Bleed — Slipknot Sulfur — Slipknot Like a Stone — Audioslave Cochise — Audioslave Show Me How to Live — Audioslave Back in Black — AC/DC Highway to Hell — AC/DC Thunderstruck — AC/DC The Trooper — Iron Maiden Kickstart My Heart — Mötley Crüe Database — MAN WITH A MISSION Starburster — Fontaines D.C.Tornado of Souls — Megadeth

Seymour Duncan pickups — FAQ

Do I need a Seymour Duncan pickups to get these tones?

No. GuitarToneAdapt models how a Seymour Duncan pickups shapes the sound and compensates so you can get close on your own pickup type and rig — free, in the browser.

What songs used a Seymour Duncan pickups?

Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses, My Own Summer (Shove It) by Deftones, Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love by Van Halen, Unholy Confessions by Avenged Sevenfold, Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, November Rain by Guns N' Roses, Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N' Roses, and more.

95 songs · settings are community-researched estimates, adapted to your gear by GuitarToneAdapt.