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Guitar Pickups

Latest about Guitar Pickups

Best electric guitar pickups 2020: top-rated single-coil, humbucker, P-90 and active pickups

Best Electric Guitar Pickups

By Rob Laing published 17 April 20

Upgrade your electric guitar tone now with the best pickups from Seymour Duncan, EMG, Bare Knuckle and more

Best acoustic guitar pickups 2020: pickups for every type of acoustic guitarist, from strummers to percussive players

Best Acoustic Guitar Pickups

By Rob Laing published 2 April 20

Improve your acoustic tone today with our selection of the very best acoustic guitar pickups available

Hendrix would be happy

Tonerider puts out Strat pickups for lefties

By MusicRadar last updated 28 February 20

Southpaw madness

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NAMM 2020: Jim Root and Trujillo pickups break cover

By Will Groves published 14 January 20

Slipknot and Metallica men's signature sets revealed

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PRS Guitars announces more new models and an upgrade to all its pickups for 2020

By Rob Laing published 22 October 19

Launch of 35th Anniversary Custom 24 models plus S2 and McCarty updates

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Stone Heavy Sound's Decade pedal will transform your pickups

By Jonathan Horsley published 9 September 19

The effect can thicken up your singlecoils or brighten up your humbuckers

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DeArmond Model 2000 pickups: everything you need to know

By Guitarist published 30 August 19

70 years on from its Gretsch debut, we take a close look at the Model 2000 - aka the Dynasonic

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How to get series and parallel sounds from your guitar pickups

By Jack Ellis published 19 July 19

Grab a bonus sound from a humbucker with this neat hum-cancelling wiring mod

Wild Custom Guitars Gyrock pickup system

Summer NAMM 2019: Wild Custom’s “revolutionary” Gyrock system allows you to switch between 6 pickups mid-song

By Michael Astley-Brown published 16 July 19

Are these revolving pickup modules a gamechanger for guitarists?

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Fralin celebrates 30th anniversary with Limited Edition Vintage Hot Stratocaster pickups

By Michael Astley-Brown published 18 June 19

Highly limited run of best-selling Strat single coils now available

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