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Give your Jazzmaster a serious boost with EMG’s innovative JMaster prewired pickguard and pickup set
Easy-install single-coils are loaded with a vintage-style Retro Active preamp, and also offered in a prewired pickguard with additional boost options
Gibson unveils new Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, complete with the pinkest hardcase you’ve ever seen
The Green Day leader returns with a new single-pickup signature model, packed with a P-90 and a none-more-pink Protector case
Best Strat pickups 2025: upgrade your tone with a new set of pups
Treat your prized old battle axe to a set of the best Stratocaster pickups – single coils and humbuckers included
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
