product demonstrations
Our founder and chief designer Bob Palmieri demonstrates several of Duneland's unique pickup designs.
Bob demonstrates Duneland's surface mount humbucker on his 1962 SG/Les Paul. Says Bob: "I've always loved P90 pickups and SG/Les Pauls. The surface mount neck pickup allows me to use the Junior model, in which the neck joint is much stronger than the Standard due to the lack of a deep well for the neck pickup.The P90 was used on the loop and the surface mount neck 'bucker on the solo. I plugged straight into my Quilter Tone Block 201 and set up a quick loop which I played it into my TC Electronic Alter Ego delay, inserted in the effects loop. No other effects were used, either in the recording or performing setups."
Bob demonstrates the dynamic response of the Duneland Blackpole pickups. Says Bob: "Using the bridge pickup I loaded a loop into my TC Electronic Alter Ego delay, which is in the effects loop of my Quilter Tone Block 201. The graceful way this pickup follows playing dynamics makes it really satisfying to play with a relatively clean treatment on the neck pickup for the solo. Recorded in my living room with a stereo mike; no other effects were used in either performing or recording rigs."
Bob Palmieri demonstrates the dynamic response of the Duneland Blackpole bridge pickup. Axe plugged straight into Quilter Tone Block 201 w/single 12" cabinet and TC Electronic Alter Ego Delay in effects loop. Recorded live with a stereo mike in living room, no EQ, compression or other effects were used.
Bob demonstrates the prototype for the Archtop Bronzeville pickup system currently used on Ken Parker's spectacular modern archtops. Says Bob: "Here we have a solo guitar performance of a tune that's been going through my head for a year. I've played it for numerous people and no one has yet identified its title or creator. I'm thinkin' Horace Silver or maybe Benny Golson. This was the first prototype for the current Archtop Bronzeville pickup, heard here on a $300 imported guitar I got from Chicago Music Exchange, played through my home stereo and recorded in my living room with a stereo mike and no effects."
Bob plays Dave Onderdonk's beautiful tune "Perry" on a Waterloo guitar from Collings Guitars. This features the prototype of a new pickup Bob is designing for an artist signature model the company is developing. Played live through a home stereo with no EQ, compression or other effects.
More videos of our devices in action.
A couple minutes of Nels Cline and Bob Palmieri playing an improvised live duo using guitars Bob put together for him: The Moth and Telefano.
Nels Cline and Bob Palmieri reunite for another episode of free improvistion in which a song appears out of thin air. Nels is playing a Collings I-30 set up by Bob with a unique pair of custom pickups and a bone bridge in an ebony support through a Milkman amp. Bob is playing a Ken Parker archtop (the "Port Orford Cannon") set up with Duneland's Bronzeville pickup system through a pair of JBL desktop powered monitors.
Nels graciously allowed me to replace all of his devices between his hands and amp with a $50 pawn shop guitar loaded with Blackpole pickups and a prototype of my wild, experimental processor at a Wilco sound check at the Chicago Theater.
Bob discusses our new series of pickups for Wilco guitarist Nels Cline with the man himself.
Bob deploys the Duneland Devices in a live performance with Rolling Stones’ keyboard player Chuck Leavell to deliver the ideal jazz and blues tones for Chuck’s reimagining of Honky Tonk Woman.
Four years later… Same tune, same club, now with the Blackpole neck pickup.
Five years later... with a Blackpole prototype that we decided was the runner-up to the one you hear in the 2019 version, which has the same specs as our current production Blackpoles.
This track from around 1997 captures much of Johnny Rutledge’s brilliance in reimagining classic tunes with a terrific mix of live players and machines, not to mention his stunning singing! It also captures a snapshot of the earliest prototypes of the pickups that became The Blackpoles and the very beginnings of my work with analog amp/speaker simulation. The Leslie, however, is real. Very real...
— Bob Palmieri
Johnny Rutledge - vocals, arrangement, programming, guitar
Bob Lizik - electric bass
Jim Hines - snare drum
Bob Palmieri - keyboards, lead, crunch, Leslie and additional guitars
Recorded and mixed by Freddie Breitberg at Streeterville Studios.
Master LA guitarist Dean Parks explores new sonic scapes with a Les Paul Recording guitar equipped with custom Duneland pickups and control system.
Fearless Bruce Forman throws down and speaks up about the special synergy between the Bronzeville System and Ken Parker Archtop.
A recent pickup design for maverick Austin guitar builder Tony Nobles.
