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Vintage Fender Stratocaster pickups: how they work, what changed, and why their sound is so sought-after
The history of Leo Fender’s Stratocaster single coils – and how to get better tone from your own Strat pickups
Best pickups for metal 2025: our guide to upgrading for high gain heaven
Looking for more firepower? Our round-up of the best pickups for metal guitarists has you covered…
Seymour Duncan and Mark Holcomb unveil Scarlet and Scourge humbuckers, wound for crushing tone through amp modelers
The Periphery riffer’s latest signature pickup set tells us where digital amp technology leads us, the pickups must follow
Keystone’s EXchanger PRO offers a choice of 8 electric guitar pickups... in a pedal
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
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"
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
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
The pickup brand has packed the Billy Gibbons-inspired design into a single coil-sized humbucker
