Seymour Duncan Blackouts Modular Preamp standard shaft Get the extreme gain of active pickups"with any pickup The Seymour Duncan Blackouts Modular Preamp turns your passive pickups into high-output active flame throwers If you love the sound of active pickups but want to try it with a different look, Seymour Duncan has an ingenious solution Blackouts Modular Preamp takes the preamp out of the pickups and integrates it with the volume pot Now you can make any passive pickup with four-conductor cable an active pickup