Guitar Pickups

Foil-wrapped and still fresh

ZZ Top legend secures signature single coil-sized humbuckers

In the first of a new series of features on pickup design, we take an in-depth look at the original 1954 ‘black bottom’ Stratocaster pickup…

Separate outputs for individual strings allow for colossal sounds

Periphery guitarist’s latest humbucker pairs best of passive and active

Despite their future vision sheen, Fishman’s Fluence pickups reference the past’s classic tones that we guitar players desire. How exactly do they do that?

594 and Singlecut 594 get a new voice