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Best guitars for jazz 2025: smooth swinging options for jazz cats
By Richard Blenkinsop last updated
From archtops to solid bodies, these are the best jazz guitars on the market today from top brands like D’Angelico, Gibson, Squier, and more

Seymour Duncan’s Rail Series reimagines its most popular pickups for high-gain setups
By Janelle Borg published
The Rail Series promises enhanced versions of some of the brand's top pickups, with a sleek design and more “clarity, tightness and sustain” for 6- and 7-string guitars

Seymour Duncan supercharges two classic Billy Gibbons guitar tones with new signature Tele and Les Paul pickups
By Matt Owen published
The Pearly Gates have been beefed-up as the Hades Gates, and the ZZ Top legend's Red Devil humbucker has been turned into a hot output Telecaster pickup

Seymour Duncan's new guitar strings could be the key to unlocking “true vintage tone”
By Matt Owen published
The pickup specialist has expanded its Antiquity range with a six-string set that looks to help players harness “true vintage tones of the most infamous guitars ever produced”

Seymour Duncan might have just changed P-90 pickups forever with its noiseless Phat Cat Silencers
By Phil Weller published
The humbucker-sized pickups offer all the tonal qualities of P-90s without extraneous noise at high-gain settings

That time Adrian Belew DIY aged his Strat with a screwdriver, spray paint and motor oil
By Matt Owen published
Belew bought a brown sunburst Strat to take on tour with Frank Zappa – but it wasn't deemed fit for purpose until going through a drastic cosmetic overhaul

How a technical mishap led Jeff Loomis back to passive pickups – and an all-new Seymour Duncan signature set
By Janelle Borg published
Jeff Loomis’ Noumenon signature humbuckers promise tight low-end and smooth treble for both six- and seven-string guitars

Seymour Duncan promises country tone without the hum with new noiseless Hot Chicken Strat and Tele pickups
By Janelle Borg published
Seymour Duncan’s latest single coils were designed with contemporary country guitarists’ high-gain demands in mind

Seymour Duncan issues reconfigured alt.metal Blackouts
By Phil Weller published
The latest Blackouts set caters to alternative metal players who favor drop C# or lower tunings

“The combination of them all can be turned to on a dime, according to the feel and vibe that I'm going for”: Seymour Duncan’s Eric Gales signature pickups promise balance across all five positions
By Matt Parker published
The signature set has been developed with in-house pickup guru Maricela ‘MJ’ Juarez
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