Sam Ash (800-472-6274) has released a guide explaining angled pickups on Fender guitars, detailing how musicians across generations have adapted Leo Fender's original design to enhance tone by ...

They’re different names for different functions! A “coil tap” is where you tap into a lone coil’s winding (usually at half way). Usually this features on Fender-type single-coil pickups. A “Coil split ...

Often, those split-coil tones have some of the spank but lack the oomph of a full single-coil pickup. Lollar Pickups might have the answer. The new Lollar Eldorado is designed to function as a ...

But it's the single Fishman Fluence Modern humbucker, found in the bridge position and therefore mirroring Thomson’s electronics setup, that seems the most telling.Indeed, of the 28 new guitars ...

Some guitarists prefer to take a minimalist approach to their gear, and find a single humbucker – or maybe even a sole single-coil – to be plenty. Likewise, many simply crave the classic neck ...