Latest about pickups
“This was Les Paul in his ear”: The story behind Gibson’s distinctive Alnico V ‘Staple pickup’
A lesser celebrated pickup the ‘Staple’ pickup features those distinctive rectangular polepieces and a sound that makes it ripe for rediscovery, especially with a range of replicas on the market
Best P-90 pickups 2025: Rejuvenate your guitar tone with a fresh set of P-90s covering various price points and styles
The P-90 is one of the most versatile single coil pickups ever made and here's the very best from Seymour Duncan, Fishman, Mojotone and more
Seymour Duncan might have just changed P-90 pickups forever with its noiseless Phat Cat Silencers
The humbucker-sized pickups offer all the tonal qualities of P-90s without extraneous noise at high-gain settings
DiMarzio and Billy Sheehan have reinvented the P-Bass pickup with a new patent
The new DiMarzio design reimagines P-Bass pickup covers, promising improvements in both playability and performance
Seymour Duncan promises country tone without the hum with new noiseless Hot Chicken Strat and Tele pickups
Seymour Duncan’s latest single coils were designed with contemporary country guitarists’ high-gain demands in mind
Legendary pickup builder Abigail Ybarra comes out of retirement to work with former Fender Master Builder
The Castedosa ABI is a Strat-style build from former Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Carlos Lopez, and designed to honor Ybarra’s legacy
Slipknot's Mick Thomson has just released his much-speculated Fishman Fluence signature pickup set
Mick Thomson's signature pickups come fully equipped with three voicings that reflect the wide array of tones Thomson has employed during his career
Seymour Duncan issues reconfigured alt.metal Blackouts
The latest Blackouts set caters to alternative metal players who favor drop C# or lower tunings
“The original Hentor brought a mix of tone and playability that empowered me to explore sounds I had never attempted before”: Alex Lifeson’s LERXST Limelight pickguard provides the transferable tones of one of his most iconic instruments
Lifeson’s Hentor Sportscaster was used extensively throughout the ‘80s, and featured on numerous Rush records and tours
“The best Tele tones I've ever had”: Rabea Massaad seeks to make the Telecaster more versatile than ever with new Bare Knuckle Nomad pickups
Rabea Massaad's third signature set with Bare Knuckle aims to do for the Fender Telecaster what his radical Triptych single coils did for the Stratocaster
