One of D-TAR’s greatest strengths is the worldwide reputation of Seymour Duncan Pickups and Rick Turner, both recognized as world leaders and authorities in their respective fields: pickups and acoustic amplification. D-TAR is the unified effort of Seymour Duncan Pickups and Rick Turner to provide the highest quality, best value acoustic amplification products to consumers and guitar-builders everywhere. With more than 35 years of experience, Rick Turner has built a solid reputation among musicians worldwide. Turner co-founded Alembic® in 1970 and designed the classic Series 1 and Series 2 basses. He founded Rick Turner Guitars in 1979 and joined Gibson® in 1988 where he served as president of Gibson Labs West Coast R&D Division. Turner left Gibson in 1992 and ran a guitar repair shop at Westwood Music in Los Angeles where he developed piezo pickups designs, working with Jackson Browne, David Crosby and others. He later co-founded Highlander™ Musical Audio, manufacturer of piezo pickups for acoustic guitars. He continues to design and build guitars for many professional players. Some of the products that DTAR has become so well known for, such as the MAMA BEAR acoustic Preamp, Equinox and the Wavelength Lock and Load system can be found by clicking here to get to the official DTAR site.
For more information on pickups and tone in general you might want to check out the Seymour Duncan User Group Forum. It's a great place to learn more about tone , wiring, guitars, and everything pickup-related. It's a really nice community of like-minded players. Just click here to check it out. Then register and join in the conversation. Also, you'll find photos, dimensions and tone chart specs, as well as sound samples, on the website. And for really clear, easy-to-read, wiring diagrams, click here .
Check out DTAR artist Don Alder Acoustic Guitar Tapping
And here is DTAR artist Don Alder on a harp guitar playing St Elmo's Fire with John Parr and Dino Dinicolo
