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Gibson has relaunched its first ever signature pickup – the Tony Iommi humbucker
The resurrected 'bucker is designed to help guitarists emulate the mighty, distorted rumble of the metal godfather's tone, without descending into overcooked, blown-out mush
Bare Knuckle’s Tim Mills on how he built the biggest indie pickup brand in the world
The guitarist behind the beloved U.K.-based artisan pickup brand, explains how he got started in the biz, the attention to detail that makes Bare Knuckle so good – and what's coming next
DiMarzio is determined to make you like the Tele neck pickup position with its new Muscle T set
The Muscle T aims to add everything Tele pickups lack
How Larry DiMarzio changed the sound of rock guitar – and redesigned the Strat bridge
The master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset took him from repair shop to working with the biggest names in the biz and changing the face of rock guitar
Why more guitar builders are making their own pickups
We speak to Juha Ruokangas about why his company took pickup design into its own hands – and then retrofitted an old PRS Custom 24 with his humbuckers to see how they sounded
Why Larry DiMarzio decided to start a pickup line that would change the face of guitar music in the 1970s
DiMarzio started his career as a guitar repairman in New York, when his distaste for stock pickups prompted him to make his own
Seymour Duncan has recreated Philip Sayce's blues rock tones with new signature single-coil set
Sayce’s sound blends a 1963 Strat with pickups from 1958, which have been faithfully reverse-engineered by Seymour Duncan’s in-house tone experts
“One of the most genuinely unique guitar tones I’ve ever heard”: Submarine Pickups Subsix review
A hexaphonic guitar pickup allows you to process each of your guitar strings individually, but is it a superpowered creative tool or a niche gimmick?
