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NAMM 2024: "The most accurate recreations of the legendary Patent Applied For humbucker pickups ever made" – Gibson is selling '1959' PAFs
By Rob Laing published
The '59 sound for $999
Seymour Duncan and Brandon Ellis team up for the Dyad Parallel Axis, a high-output humbucker that proves you don’t need active pickups for gnarly metal tone
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Black Dahlia Murder guitarist says the Dyad “offers a chewier, mid-range focused sound for guitarists looking for more body out of their instrument in standard tunings”
NAMM 2024: Monty's Guitars draws inspiration from Band Of Gypsys era Hendrix and a '58 Burst for its new Overspun PAF humbucker and Strat pickup sets
By Rob Laing published
A balance of vintage clarity and hot cut – designer Matt Gleeson explains all
An £85 short-scale S-style with a HSS pickup configuration, Harley Benton’s ST-Junior HSS SBK Standard Series might be the ultimate beginner electric guitar
By Jonathan Horsley published
The latest edition to Harley Benton's budget-friendly Standard Series is compact, friendly to growing hands, dirt cheap, has a super-versatile pickup configuration and looks pretty smart too
Manson Guitar Works announces its most affordable UK-made guitars to date with the "very high-spec" one-pickup MA and Verona Junior models
By Rob Laing published
Left-handed models are available too at no extra cost
See Marcus King demo Elixir® Strings by ripping on his three-pickup Les Paul Custom that's from 1958… and the 1970s!
By MusicRadar published
Marcus is touring with a weathered '58 body paired with a '70s neck and it sounds glorious
“Fluence pickups are unlike anything else there is”: Slipknot’s Mick Thomson is latest high-profile metal player to join Fishman’s artist roster
By Jonathan Horsley published
The question is when we will see them on a new ESP signature model
Julian Lage once performed a whole tour on his Telecaster’s bridge pickup to “settle a bet” with himself
By Jonathan Horsley published
The jazz guitar maestro admits that sticking on the bridge pickup was a difficult experiment in treble and overtones – “I would go back to my room and my ears would be ringing”
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