Seymour Duncan releases Palladium Gain Stage guitar pedal

We saw it in the flesh at NAMM, and now Seymour Duncan has announced the Palladium Gain Stage will be hitting stores very soon.

The pickup mogul reckons it's "the first stompbox that actually captures the feel and responsiveness of a high-gain tube amp", with three gain stages and a fully featured EQ with sweepable mid frequency.

This triple gain threat means the Palladium can cover tones from light overdrive through to classic-rock grit and full-on metal distortion.

Elsewhere, resonance and presence controls shape the extreme low- and high-end, while a boost knob adds overdrive to the beginning of the signal path.

In fact, the whole package is so versatile, SD claims you can use it with a power amp, clean guitar amp or already distorted amp.

The Seymour Duncan Palladium is available from April for £349 street.

Michael Astley-Brown

Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.