pickups

-- Color Code Chart For Pickup Wiring -- Color code chart for pickup wiring -- click for bigger image. The single best way to dramatically change the sound of your electric guitar is by way of replacing your pickups. It’s an exciting prospect – firing up your ax for the first time after a new set freshly installed hot-wired humbuckers...

Check out the EMG 57-Bridge and 66-Neck  active pickups -- only $129.00 each! When you think about pickup companies that built their reputation around giving players classic tones with contemporary sensibility, Lindy Fralin, Fender and Dunlop quickly come to mind. You don’t usually think EMG. Instead, that particular company is better known for focusing their products on the much more...

Seymour Duncan Antiquity Texas Hot Stratocaster Pickup Every pickup coil has two properties that affect how they will sound when they are combined with others. These properties are called phase and polarity. Phase is the direction current travels through the pickup, and polarity is the direction of the magnetic field. With both properties, there are only two options. Phase...

Seymour Duncan 6-String Nazgûl You no longer need a 7- or 8-string guitar to enjoy the ruthlessness of the Nazgûl or the enhanced dynamics and string separation of the Pegasus. The Nazgûl was developed for extreme metal players who required a massive and aggressive tone that still maintained plenty of articulation. The Pegasus was developed for prog and modern...

Staggered-Pole unwound Stratocaster pickup. Check some awesome staggered pole pickups right here! The difference between a flat pole and staggered pole guitar pickups goes far beyond cosmetic and can drastically affect tone – which means your playing style. Read on and find out exactly how pole positioning changes a pickups sound and which one is right for you. On...