The same day of the Earth Day Lace has released, probably, the first ecologic pickup system, the Aluma P Bass System Pickups, that have been designed to contaminate less than standard pickups. Belonging to the Alumitone pickup series this model is available in 4- and 5-/6-string version and produces a great tone in a light-weight [...]
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The latest release of the pickup company Seymour Duncan is a new humbucker pickup that is the answer to those who demanded a better symbiosis between the huge gained amps and the pickups. The Seymour Duncan SH-15 Alternative-8 Humbucker Pickup is the first to feature the Alnico 8 magnet, that includes hot coils wound to [...]
The new guitar series from Washburn are hybrid guitars that take the Parker’s carbon glass technology to apply it to the fingerboard resulting a faster and smooth fingerboard for heavy metal guitar players, or for everyone who need a very fast fingerboard. The Washburn HM Guitars has several models, and not all of them include [...]
Fishman is probably the pickup company that is inside more different guitar models, mainly acoustic ones, and they continue releasing new models with improved technologies, their new product is the Fishman Matrix Infinity Undersaddle Pickup, a redesigned pickup that produces a high quality and balanced sound using the Acoustic Matrix pickup.
The Fishman Matrix Infinity Undersaddle [...]
The pickup company Shadow Electronics announces a new product for its ethnic pickup product line, an undersaddle pickup system for acoustic ukuleles. The Shadow Electronics SH 1110-UK Pickup is easy to install, remains almost invisible and provides a clean, string-balanced and amplified sound of you ukulele.
The Shadow Electronics SH 1110-UK Pickup fits in all acoustic [...]
It looks like EMG is updating one of its most famous products, the EMG-81 pickup, used by guitar players like Zakk Wylde or Kirk Hammett, by releasing the new EMG EMG-81TW Active Pickup. This pickups is based on the EMG-81 but includes some improvements in tonal range and connectivity, lets take a look.
The EMG EMG-81TW [...]
We talked about the BG Pups company when they released the Melody Maker and the Strat version of the P90 pickup, and now they are releasing a humbucker version of this famous pickup, the BG Pups Pure90 Pickup. Now you can install P90 pickup in your humbucker guitar model and have a great rock, blues [...]
The Lab of the Dr. Epiphone is where the Gibson low-cost company develops some of their new products and this week they have announced a new active pickup, with the obvious name of Epiphone EpiActive Pickup. This pickup is the result of a long development by Epiphone engineers.
The Epiphone EpiActive Pickups features a built-in active [...]
There are some fans and some notable users of the Gibson P90 pickup, for example the famous solo of Another Brick in the Wall part 2 was recorded with a P90 equipped Les Paul and Johnny Thunders, Nick Valensi or Mick Jones are/were some of their users. If you own a Melody Maker guitar and [...]
There were some more models released by Guild in Summer NAMM under the Contemporary series, the Guild Contemporary CV-2 and the Guild Contemporary CV-2C. These are acoustic and acoustic/electric guitars respectively, and their main differences are the Florentine singe cut-away, the D-TAR Wave-Length pickup and preamp system and volume and tone controls and two adjustable [...]
