Pickups are the most important factor in the sound of an electric guitar. Other things will affect it as well, but the pickups help shape the fundamental tone and will react to how you play. Since ...

Kirk Hammett has said he thinks the age of active pickups may be over, at least when it comes to his own playing. The Metallica guitarist made the comments in a recent interview with Guitarist, in ...

These easy-install active Alnico V pickups have a wide stacked single-coil design and are available as a standalone pair or an integrated pickguard with powerful boost and EQ controls When you ...

Seymour Duncan has unveiled a new signature electric guitar pickup that it has co-designed with Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, and to the surprise of no one the Machete is an active, high-output ...

Fishman says that its new pickup range is the first truly new electric pickup system design for over 80 years. Its Fluence technology is claimed to deliver the kind of pure, consistent tone and ...

R&M Tone Technology has developed a new line of patented active guitar cables to help players inject some life into their guitar sound. Each of the four PowerWire cables comes with a built-in preamp ...