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How to change pickups on a Les Paul-style guitar
By Jack Ellis published
Give your LP a fresh lease of life

Get PAF humbucker tones from your Strat with Seymour Duncan and Billy Gibbons’ ‘Red Devil for Strat’ guitar pickups
By Michael Astley-Brown published
ZZ Top legend secures signature single coil-sized humbuckers

Pickup lines: the tonal secrets behind 1954 Strat pickups
By Guitarist published
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…

EMG RetroActive Fat 55 pickup set
By Dave Burrluck published
A surprising new set from EMG

Make 1 guitar sound like 3 with the Submarine Pro pickup
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Separate outputs for individual strings allow for colossal sounds

Bare Knuckle takes “the next step in progressive rock and metal tone” with Ragnarok Misha Mansoor signature pickups
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Periphery guitarist’s latest humbucker pairs best of passive and active

How Fishman shook up the pickup world with Fluence
By Guitarist published
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?

Summer NAMM 2017: PRS equips McCarty 594 guitars with PRS/Seymour Duncan P-90 Soapbar pickups
By Michael Astley-Brown published
594 and Singlecut 594 get a new voice
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