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EMG, Inc. is the current legal name of an American company based in Santa Rosa, California that manufactures guitar pickups and EQ accessories. Among guitar and bass accessories, the company sells active humbucker pickups, such as the EMG 81, [1] the EMG 85, the EMG 60, and the EMG 89. They also produce passive pickups such as the EMG-HZ series ...
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Lollar Pickups is a Tacoma, Washington-based company that creates handmade pickups for electric, bass, and steel guitars. The company was founded in 1995 by luthier Jason Lollar, a 1979 graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery , and author of Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder. [ 1 ]
In 1980 Larry Fishman made a prototype acoustic pickup in his basement, and by 1981 he had taken orders for pickups from the Guild Guitar Company.In 1982 the C.F. Martin Guitar Company ordered Fishman pickups; to accommodate it, Fishman and his company rented a larger manufacturing space, and began designing and making pickups for banjos, mandolins, violins, cellos and basses as well.
Guitar pickups category lists essential models of pickups, ones that played important role in modern music, have an easily recognized "signature" sound, etc.
A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups. Humbucking coils are also used in dynamic microphones to cancel electromagnetic hum. Humbuckers are one of two main types of guitar pickups. The other is single coil.
Bare Knuckle Pickups (Bare Knuckle, or BKP) is a privately-owned business based in the South West of England, UK, specialising in hand-wound electric guitar pickups. [1] The company was founded in 2003 by Tim Mills, who had previously worked with Elkie Brooks and Iced Earth .
Lakland Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric bass guitars based in Chicago, Illinois. The company's first bass combined elements of the Fender Jazz Bass and the Music Man StingRay . The company's current line-up includes basses inspired by classics like the Fender Precision Bass and Jazz Bass as well as Lakland's own original designs.