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Fender unveils the Kingfish Telecaster Deluxe and Kingfish Signature Humbucker Pickups
By Rod Brakes published
Mississippi blues phenom Christone "Kingfish" Ingram is honoured with signature Tele and ‘buckers

UK maker Sunbear is offering Firebird-style pickups in P-90 and full humbucker sizes
By Rob Laing last updated
Possibly the most underrated pickup style around is now accessible to more guitarists

NAMM 2022: Ernie Ball Music Man uses its guitar string experience for a new Heat Treated pickups
By Rob Laing published
The pickups will debut on new HT Cutlass, StingRay and Sabre models from July

Gretsch’s 2022 Electromatic hollowbodies have been officially launched – hear the new FT-5E Filter’Tron pickups in action
By Jonathan Horsley published
The series also debuts a newly designed trestle bracing pattern and offers a choice of sweet finishes

Gretsch’s 2022 Electromatic range refreshes classic designs with Broad’Tron-equipped Jets and revised Hollow Bodies featuring all-new FT-5E Filter’Tron pickups
By Jonathan Horsley published
That great Gretsch sound, subtly updated – featuring new-look Jet Baritone electrics, a stunning G5422G-12 doublecut 12-string, a short-scale Junior Jet II and more…

Cort rolls out a suite of high-performance electrics, including X300 models with flip-flop finishes and EMG RetroActive pickups
By Jonathan Horsley last updated
Drip-feeding new gear for 2022, Cort's latest welcomes a bold new look for shredder's favourite, the X300, plus updated G290 FAT and state-of-the-art X700 Duality II models

Cort’s seven-string multi-scale electric returns with Fishman Fluence pickups
By Jonathan Horsley published
The KX500MS is reborn as the KX507MS and comes complete with multi-voice humbuckers for “limitless possibilities across the tonal spectrum”

Is this the Goldilocks humbucker? Bare Knuckle reveals Polymath Adam 'Nolly' Getgood signature pickups
By Rob Laing last updated
"An antidote to scooped, harsh or boomy tone"
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