“Built to cut through any mix like a blade”: Seymour Duncan launches the Dino Cazares signature Machete humbucker
Seymour Duncan has teamed up with Fear Factory riff-machine Dino Cazares on the new signature Machete humbucker.
Long known as the secret weapon inside Cazares’ signature Ormsby guitars, the Machete now makes its standalone debut for players everywhere. Engineered for guitarists who demand articulation and low-end definition without sacrificing organic feel, this active pickup in a passive mount combines high-output coils with a custom preamp circuit to deliver ferocious attack and surgical precision.
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“The Machete looks like a traditional passive pickup, but it’s actually an active pickup with a preamp hidden inside the housing, right underneath the pole pieces,” Cazares explains. “That design gives this pickup extra bite, precision, and clarity – built to cut through any mix like a blade.”
Built on the foundation of Seymour’s popular Retribution model, the Machete dials in a sharper treble edge and thicker low-mids, giving it an aggressiveness that’s perfect for machine-gun picking, tight chugs, and searing leads.
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“I wanted the best of both worlds. The open, less compressed feel of a passive pickup combined with an aggressive bite and articulation of an active preamp,” says Cazares. “It delivers the raw clarity, but still hits with the force of an active pickup.”
“The machete pickup is an incredibly diverse pickup,” he adds. “I designed it to sound great for any style that I play, and for any type of player. It delivers beautiful, open, clean tones without that heavy, active compression, but it also gives you the precise, aggressive staccato attack that I would need for Fear Factory or Divine heresy, and anything in between.”
Hand-built in Santa Barbara, California, the Machete is available for six-string guitars in Black, White, and Red, and for seven-strings in Black, White, and Zebra. Prices come in at $149 for the six-string model and $159 for the seven-string version.
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