DOWN TO THE MERROW: EPISODE 14, GUITAR PICKUPS, CARCASS, LEON DELMUERTE IS BACK!!

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[@TheBlackFlux]

Please do more of these episodes, easily some of the best guitar content out there!

[@skourthsgiaoyrths9610]

honestly seymour duncans feel like they lost their shine since u left, u literally introduced a whole new audience to that brand which is a huge achievement.Not only were u an employee but u also brought a ton of engagement there through ur online prescence. These were fun days and really enjoyable memories from my journey when i started being serious about guitar. I guess this is the long way of saying ''thx a lot keith''

[@michaelask9018]

You

[@SonicDriveStudio]

Great video! Love pickups, to me they make all the difference!

[@Germs19]

These videos are on another level compared to anyone else involved in content creation around extreme metal. It completely makes sense that you got a degree in multimedia because these videos are so meticulously put together. I could listen to you and Leon shoot the shit about metal and nerdy music stuff all day. Glad to see you're both doing alright.

[@formallynamed85]

Nice to hear the origins and all the backstories just hanging out.

[@dustinroberts5949]

Can confirm, the Keith signature fishman pickups kick an unreasonable amount of ass

[@13thNemesis]

Agreed! Although I have been thinking of going back to some passives! Nazgul, Black Winter or Holcomb Alpha/Omega or Scarlet/Scourge

[@everydayperson764]

Oh yes.

[@chrisdudeword1]

Dude the intro 😂

[@metalage1975]

Glad to see you both back on the Tube. Regards from Sydney Australia

[@MetalGuitar911]

So happy to see you back ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@morteniversen3459]

Cool that you started up with the videos again!

[@orelaroki]

I MISSED THIS SO MUCHHH

[@Unexpaix]

It's nice to get to be a fly on the wall for the riff chats. Anything keith shares with us is such a delight. Wishin you well dude!

[@catch33000]

the pillars play through was so rad. its a timeless track

[@ericsmith6633]

Ahhhhh Merrow vid!!! Just made the day!

[@toemasmeems]

i love when you guys make videos/music etc. i still have my ENSHITTED shirt lol

[@ThrashXCV]

glad to see you posting here man, amazing content and production quality as always.

[@NekBodesh]

FUCK YEAH THE BOYS ARE BACK

[@YourCaliBos]

Good to see you guys doing your thing , I love this series. Would love to see a video of Leon’s tunings he uses -he’s a killer player . Cheers BC ⭕️

[@delmuerte]

Oh man, lotta different tunings for different bands. Terrorizer LA: D, Lightbreaker: C, Nails: C, (early) Impaled: B, Exhumed: B, Intronaut: drop B, Murder Construct: drop A, Enshitted: drop G

[@mikeomaly]

I love reading the bones! My go to at work!

[@flachmann161]

Finally another DTTM episode!

[@peterwall77]

I have a 7 string set of your Fishman pickups in my Solar Guitar. I wanted a different flavour from the Moderns in my ESP so went with your set and they are magic in that guitar. So articulate and clear. The neck single coil sounds amazing too.

[@orphanuprising]

I'm glad you slapped the Lundgrens in the new KM-7's. This Legacy KM-7 is an insatiable riff machine.

[@sfmetalmaster]

Awesome video Keith. Your garage workspace looks cool. Maybe a tour of the workspace could be an idea for a future episode? Thanks for all the content!

[@driftthekaliyuga7502]

Playing guitar and producing music we live in the world of small differences. It’s all the little things that add up. As an older metal head I’ve somehow found myself back to the JB. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@infinidominion]

I think Rutan uses that too

[@MimmiStangvik]

​@@infinidominioncustom 5 ithink

[@joskun]

Today is my birthday and my heart open when I saw the new message under this video. The intro cracked me up so much and the lemon drop part, couldn't stop laughing. Not gonna lie I tear up and also appreciate the demonstration because I have never put a pick-up before. Thank you so much Keith and Leon I know never seen you guys in person but I love you guys

[@irmasil3]

Keith is back! I loved this series! And back with a bang on the pickups "discussion" :) Welcome back mate!

[@benjamincaupin1366]

Down to the merrow IS back ❤❤❤❤

[@BlindGuyRiffs]

AW SHIT HERE WE GO AGAIN.

[@TudorAdrian]

Let's goooooooooooo!

[@davidbucket]

Fuck yeah, let's go 😎🤘

[@BlindGuyRiffs]

@@TudorAdrian YUPPPP

[@BlindGuyRiffs]

@@davidbucket YESSSIRRRRRR

[@monsterk7603]

Good to see you again, man! I have to admit, I am at least a hundred of the views on your Duncan pickups video back in the day. Lol. Keep em coming!! \,,/ OO \,,/

[@21stcenturymetal31]

Sick pickups and sick guitar but the riffs are even sicker. Thx dude we needed this.

[@xplanet2112]

Great to see you back, really interesting video, I went from Prince to Napalm Death myself ha ha. Carcass are one of my all time favourite metal bands, peace.

[@danomnihility2453]

Good Carcass!

[@Raza_Odiada]

Nice to have more content from you 🤘🏼

[@Gravespawn506]

Love me some new Merrow vids

[@alessandroqueri1340]

Where is the Custom Duncan Invader from that killer Bugera 6260 demo? That tone is still the best.

[@infinidominion]

Invaders are amazing

[@sugarskull]

I recently got a KMIII with the Fishmans, they sound so much better than the moderns to me. Really dig em!

[@jessealcott2064]

This is amazing. Love it!

[@msi1985]

Love to see these videos come out! I've had a km 7 Mark 3 since 2021! It came with the fishermen Keith merrow signature pickups, which were good pickups! But as most people like to customize things to suit their own tastes I've switched to the Lundgren m7s but I've added a few additional tweaks... Wired them so that the neck and bridge positions were humbucker and the middle position is actually the inner and outer coil of the neck and bridge pickup in single coil mode. Along with that I added a 22nf orange cap and tone knob... Which replaced the previous existing voice selector switch. Big shout out to Keith for being such an inspiration!

[@dreammachine86]

Nice mod, mixing pickups from the new KM-7 into the pervious model. That blue crimson finish of the Mark III was awesome! I had a Mark III but in the black finish as that was all that was left when they got discontinued. I really enjoyed the neck pickup but the bridge wasn't my kind of thing. The Fishman single coil voicing is really cool but it just sounded too compressed for my taste as far as high gain rhythm tones go. I was thinking of swapping pickups but ended up swapping the whole guitar in the end as it was just too bright sounding for me (most likely the brass block in the back contributing to that). To be fair that's Keith's preference, not a fault of the guitar at all. Hope I'll pickup a new KM someday as they really are beautiful instruments - and I'm sure some darker passive pickups like the M7s play better with a bright sounding guitar than the Fishmans. I suppose you had to swap out your pots for 500K models when putting in passives? That 3-way voicing switch actually could been useful for passives; I've seen a wiring diagram that lets you switch between series/parallel/single coil modes although you do need one of those switches for each pickup.

[@VertigoGTI]

Love the intro

[@jimmyt8047]

LOVE YOUR PLAYING BROTHER !!!!

[@danuwisnuwardhana4173]

8:38 I have it in 8 string format for my custom guitar. Insane pickups for sure!

[@t3e_e]

The rails jokes had me rollin

[@ericb4351]

Utopia Banished… Still in my top 10 albums ever. It seems we are in the same age range, I’m 46, but 1992, I got ahold of Utopia, (actually Scum first, but quickly got the “new” one and that was more my liking at the time!), then Deicide Legion, then Blessed are the Sick anddddd game over! Haha.

[@K707OR30]

Nice surprise to see this come up! I’ve said it before but DTTM was (is?) my favorite KZbin series. Mainly because it doesn’t feel like a “KZbin series” at all, it’s really just feels like a good hang out session talking shit about guitars and metal. Hope you guys keep it up even if it’s just here and there.

[@techniqueswithtodd]

Criminally underviewed imho. As with most of his content. Not sure why. He is dead on with the Lundgren pickups. These are AMAZING. There is a reason Meshuggah use them.

[@paulgilroy7647]

Cool lil work bench.I like it.. I wonder will someone retaliate for this video tho.🤣🤣

[@Gurkan231]

Would be fun to see you go through some of your favorite vinyls. Any rare ones or vinyls that meant a lot.

[@MetalheadOv666]

Hell yes!!! The tone and song was killer!

[@KRIS.7S]

Love this series Keith !!!!!! 👏👏👏

[@replicated]

Oh. What a pleasant surprise.

[@RohannvanRensburg]

I was going to accuse Glen of not being Glen due to his lack of yelling but then he started yelling and insulting. 10/10. Glad you're still making these on occasion!

[@ERiCtheBuLL]

NOT THE BUREAU OF BOBBINS!!!

[@LeeJoRo]

KEEF! Back with another weekly episode Jokes Glad to see you're still uploadIng

[@dreammachine86]

Love the history discussion. Sounds like a very interesting job for a guitar enthusiast to work for SD. And you've ended up with that enviable magic box of pickups! Personally I'd love to hear some demos of the Schecter USA pickups as not that many people seem to know they make their own. Perhaps a little demo of that beautiful gold top KM-6? I saw it on Reverb a while back but a USA Schecter is a little rich for my wallet atm. One day though! I did buy a Schecter USA Colossus bridge pickup for my Reaper-6. They seem to have a very angry edge to them...I believe John Browne even said they just sound pissed off. Like you say...Angus Young's tone on crack would be ideal for modern metal. Doesn't surprise me that my own favourite modern metal tone for practicing at home is a high output passive pickup into a plugin that is a classic British rock amp (Plexi) on steroids - something like Neural's Rabea or Nameless. Although I do love using coil splits for that extra spankiness. But people seem to say those Lundgren M7s are really percussive anyway as humbuckers so I guess you have that covered! Also strongly agree that pickups do make an important difference...especially if you're after a very specific sound. Pickups are also a great way to customise aesthetics. Guitarmory have some interesting stuff going on. They are now doing LED pickups which have clear plastic bobbins that light up inside. Never seen anything like that before so think I will grab a set to go in an all white guitar where they will really pop.

[@0421072]

DiMarzio X2N is my jam. My #2 has Mick Thompson Blackouts but, I don't play it as much because I can't leave it plugged in.

[@Tacklebox455]

Damn I have missed this so much

[@Cerebrum358]

Bureau of Bobbins lmao. Big Pickup lmao. Bobbin' deez lmao.

[@eddiekim]

Keith, you're the best!

[@CDz-bk9qi]

Holy fucking shit!!!!!!a new down to the merrow episode!!!!!!!!!let me hit play ill hit play right the fuck now!!!!!!!!

[@orelaroki]

the intro holy fuck

[@mauriciocantu9988]

Excelent video!!, now let me watch it jeje

[@TheLetOffStream]

I legit thought it was Glenn, lol

[@markh1821]

Brought back memories of my first extreme metal albums which were on a tape recorded by one of my friends at school. One side Reign In Blood and the other side Harmony Corruption. Pretty sure the last songs were missing due to the tape length. Heaviest band before that Id listened to was Guns N Roses. Mind blowing and still listen to the crazy shit today and not much else

[@infinidominion]

Black gold in those bins

[@livettp]

I love you guys 🤣

[@barrygomez5968]

Back again!❤ quit playing games with my heart, dawg😂

[@BosbluzGuitarMethod]

sounds rad as F@#$....tone king brother

[@capncolostomy6427]

Leon Del Muerte loves Dean guitars (specifically the Cadillac), so please tread carefully, Mr. Merrow.

[@delmuerte]

😂😂😂

[@denisherry]

F**** YESSS! 🖤

[@tlepsh_band]

I bought the Seymour Duncan Liberator and wanted to experiment by installing both active and passive pickups on my guitar... That was stupid of course. I send Seymour Duncan an email and I remember Keith responding and basically told me that was incorrect, loool. That was in 2012 dude.. damn

[@evlhulk4817]

"unchecked mental health issues and addicted to opioids".... one of us! one of us! one of us!

[@crash921]

Down to the Merrow is back!!!

[@allenwhite1978]

Gc in 92 damn we didn’t see any around here in Michigan until way later

[@pointymason]

The intro killed me, so good 🤣

[@KadintheGuitarDude]

We are so fucking back.

[@ShinKuro99]

HELLYEAH !!

[@brvnopdz]

HAHAHAHA that intro is 🔥🔥🔥

[@djkingpinlive]

I’d be interested in what you thought of Bill Steer’s pickup

[@Ghaos]

Love love love this, especially the hang segment. The only thing that would have made this vid better is more Sophia....XD

[@beautague9163]

Yes!!!!!!

[@aynse_]

I know that intro wasn't supposed to be fricker because the volume of your voice was really consistent and I could fully understand everything you said

[@tpl2000]

My favorite pickup artist, bar none.

[@scribeofsolace]

got springs on the vw? whip looks clean lmao

[@EgoPhagist]

hallllllaaaaaalujiaaaaaa the Keith is back

[@shea_o_keith]

Sick GTI!

[@toemasmeems]

I have the Fishman Merrows! But damn if I don’t want to throw in some Duncan’s for fun every now and then

[@derekclark1005]

Glen, is that you? 😆😆😆

[@psiklops71]

22:25 looks like a crazy Spider Fantastic

[@thecryptcakestench149]

This is gold🤘🏼🤣

[@CMOOREtbay]

😂 and we actually trust your opinions... 😁🤘

[@13thNemesis]

Nice :3 More videos please!

[@girtha1134]

What is the “mixer” on your desk and is it also your interface for your daw?

[@jconner3891]

I just had some rails. Real ones😂

[@shawnjmaddy]

Yessss

[@baiakmenlangsuting5225]

Am realy down with down to the merrow.

[@TK672]

@ola Englund obvs watched this on repeat right? Cos they homies 😎 Honorable mention on next SWOLA??

[@Epochstudios]

Awesome

[@Mar33322]

Someone needs to record a ep or full length with a HM2 and a Gorilla 25 watt combo amp.

[@zeusbruce2178]

I love my Schecter KM-7.

[@tsalagi78]

🤘🏽🤘🏽