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Keystone’s EXchanger PRO offers a choice of 8 electric guitar pickups... in a pedal
By Matt Parker published
Switch from single coil to humbucker at the press of a footswitch

Seymour Duncan brings the funk with standalone release of Cory Wong signature Clean Machine pickups
By Jackson Maxwell published
Aside from the requisite, spanky funk cleans, the Clean Machines also produce – with the help of an extra-hot, Alnico V-powered bridge pickup – "singing" leads that are said to excel when driven

Jackie Venson: "With humbuckers, you have to be really careful and constantly muting. You have to be nuanced and sensitive. It's like surgery"
By Andrew Daly published
The blues-rock guitar dynamo discusses her move from Strats to Epiphone Les Pauls, fooling purists with her Kemper, and why she chose – just three years after its release – to re-imagine her album, Joy

Ovation launches revived Ultra range, featuring thermal-treated spruce tops and new pickups
By Matt Parker published
The lineup features some wild acoustic finishes, including Yukon Spray, Vampira Red, Silver Shadow, Dusk Til Dawn and Pitch Black

Want a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbucker for your Tele? That’s now an option
By Matt Parker published
The pickup brand has packed the Billy Gibbons-inspired design into a single coil-sized humbucker

Everything you need to know about Filter’Tron pickups – the humbuckers beloved by Chet Atkins, Neil Young and George Harrison
By Huw Price published
Long associated with That Great Gretsch Sound, the Filter'Tron has been charming guitarists since the late 1950s

Are Bill Kelliher’s new Mojotone Hellbender pickups the most versatile metal humbuckers ever made?
By Matt Parker published
The Mastodon rhythm king’s new signature set uses Alnico II and V ceramic magnets to deliver tones spanning brutal to beautiful

Rob Chapman now owns stakes in other US guitar and pickup firms
By Matt Parker published
The YouTuber and Chapman Guitars co-owner has announced two new ventures

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge returns to Fender as he unveils new single-pickup Starcaster design
By Michael Astley-Brown published
It looks like the pop-punk icon’s Gibson days are over

Railhammer aims to bring heavy Smashing Pumpkins tones to all with the launch of Billy Corgan Z-One pickups
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Promising fat midrange with a smooth top-end, Corgan’s pickups are the same as those found in his Reverend signature guitar and featured custom etched artwork
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