Ultimate High-Output Pickup Comparsion
If you are looking for a high-output pickup for rock or metal, check out this comparsion demo where you can see 12 of our most popular models compared in side by side demos. Distortion 0:06 – 1:02 Full...
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Nile's Karl Sanders On Metal Tone, Technique And The Gate Of Sethu
Nile’s latest album is At The Gate of Sethu [Nuclear Blast], an impressive slab of technical death metal loaded with ultra-precise riffs, eerie atmospherics and plenty of the band’s trademark lyrical...
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High vs Medium Output Pickups: Is More Better?
Picking which pickup to pick. Which will you choose? There are many decisions involved when choosing the right pickup. Vintage or Modern? Hum cancelling or not? What kind of EQ do I want? But one of...
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Honky, Hallowed, Humbuckers
Ever since I started playing guitar, I was always drawn towards the Les Paul – the three-pickup version in particular. The two-pickup guitar always lacked something in the looks department. I still...
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Seven-String Pickup Options
One thing 7-string guitarists continually cite as an attraction to the extended range of the instrument is that they can still play everything that they could play on a six-string guitar – as well as...
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7/8 String Soapbar Size Now Available
Ever since active pickups came out and many guitar manufacturers starting building with them in mind, there’s been one problem – the standard size of active pickups (Phase II) is different than the...
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The Metal Hammer That Is The Synyster Gates Invader
Sometimes there is only one tool that you need – a hammer. Things just need to be hit, and they need to be hit hard. When it comes to guitar pickups the SH-8 Invader would be considered the hammer of...
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Pickups for Drop-Tuning
Drop tuning involves dropping the strings down pitches to explore a whole different tonal shape and be able to do things like easily fret across strings with a single finger. This also includes...
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What Is A Guitar Pickup?
If you’re reading this blog then chances are you play a guitar, and an electric guitar at that. Electric guitars use pickups as part of the recipe to create an amplified electric guitar tone, but what...
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The Sound of Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates along with his partner in guitar crime, Zacky Vengeance, burst out of Huntington Beach California and on to the metal scene with Avenged Sevenfold in 2001 with the release of “Sounding...
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The Best Guitar Pickups for Metal: Classic Metal
We know that picking the best guitar pickups for metal is impossible. It’s even hard to narrow them down for classic metal. Every player has different preferences, everyone is after a different tone,...
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