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Fender Limited Edition American Professional Classic Telecaster with Silent System
Has Fender finally solved the problem of single-coil hum with this “innovative breakthrough”?

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Fender Silent System is passive, battery-free, and built into these limited run American Professional Classic Strats and Teles, and it promises zero hum, maximum tone

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Joe Bonamassa demos his new signature Pawnshop Special P-90 pickups from Seymour Duncan.
How a miracle pawn shop purchase in the depths of winter made Joe Bonamassa fall in love with P-90s

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Seymour Duncan's collab with Bonamassa continues with a limited edition replica of the P-90S from his Polaris White '61 SG Special

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Gibson x Baggs HiFi DNA Pickup
Have Gibson and Baggs cracked the code for amplified acoustic guitar tone? Meet the HiFi DNA system

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The HiFi DNA bridge plate pickup system has been rolled out across a huge range of Gibson acoustics, and each sensor's signal is processed via its own Class A preamp circuit

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MusicRadar Guitar Gear Round-up June 2026
MusicRadar’s epic guitar gear round-up: June ’26 edit, ft. EHX, PRS, Fender’s mega-launch and more

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Guitar gear worth a pay day blow-out, ft. metal-friendly signature guitars from PRS and Jackson, the return of Squier's Paranormal series and more Inspired By Gibson Custom Epiphone models

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Gibson T-Top Humbuckers
Gibson brings back the T-Top humbucker with “period-correct” 1968 spec

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The signs were there that the T-Top was making a return when Michael Schenker's Murphy Lab Flying V shipped with a pair. Now it's officially available from the Gibson Pickup Shop

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Seymour Duncan Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Duncan Custom
Seymour Duncan releases hand-wound replica of an OG humbucker from the dawn of the high-gain era

By Jonathan Horsley Published

This 50th Anniversary release sees the Duncan Custom reverse-engineered and offered as a signed, limited edition set with a hand-wound '59 neck humbucker

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Close up of LR Baggs acoustic guitar pickup
Best acoustic guitar pickups 2025: electrify your acoustic for stage, studio and sound fx – our top picks for all budgets

By Simon Fellows Last updated

Looking to perform live, record in a studio or hook up your acoustic guitar to some dazzling effects? Then fitting a quality pickup is the best upgrade you can make

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Gibson Custom Shop Aged Greenybucker Set: with the nickel housings given the Murphy Lab treatment, these are exacting replicas of the pickups found in the Gibson Custom Kirk Hammett “Greeny” Les Paul, complete with the out-of-phase middle position sound.
Gibson unveils the $449 Murphy Lab aged humbucker set that will make your Les Paul sound like ‘Greeny’

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Limited to 100 units worldwide, exclusive to Gibson, these are aged by the Murphy Lab to look just like the real thing

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Seymour Duncan Mortal-Coil Multi-Voice Humbuckers
Seymour Duncan unveils MortalCoil active humbucker set – will it dethrone Fishman as metal’s state-of-the-art pickup?

By Jonathan Horsley Published

NAMM 2026: A serious upgrade to any high-performance electric guitar, Seymour Duncan promises a super-fast attack, clarity even when the gain is dimed – and hey, there's a single-coil voicing too

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Slash wears a top hat and plays a Gibson SG live with Guns N' Roses, with pink and blue lights in the background.
“The SG that I had at the Ozzy gig, that guitar needed a louder pickup but I still wanted that true-to-life guitar sound that I like”: Slash and Seymour Duncan dial up the raunch with the Guns N’ Roses legend’s signature 3.0 humbuckers

By Jonathan Horsley Published

NAMM 2026: Hand-wired in Santa Barbara, they're not just for Les Pauls or SGs. Slash has one in his BC Rich Mockingbird – and they'd work a treat in a hotrodded S-style

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