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TV Jones is an American guitar pickup manufacturer founded in 1993 by luthier Thomas V. Jones in Whittier, California.Now based in Poulsbo, Washington, the company is best known for creating vintage-style Filter'Tron pickups, [1] using materials and a manufacturing process similar to what was used in the late 1950s and 1960s by Ray Butts and Gretsch.
Officially, P-90 pickups were introduced in 1946, when Gibson resumed guitar production after World War II. The name refers to the part number as designated by the company. [ 2 ] They were initially used to replace Gibson's original "bar" or "blade" pickup, also known as the Charlie Christian pickup, on models such as the ES-150 , and by the ...
The special original Gibson Firebird humbucking pickup(s) — single, dual or triple — were smaller footprint versions of standard Gibson humbucking pickups, but were unique in that inside each of their smaller bobbins contained an alnico bar magnet (standard humbucking pickups and mini-humbucking pickups have one bar magnet that activates ...
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 ...
His first offering was the "FS-1," a pickup designed to reduce the often shrill nature of stock Stratocaster bridge pickups, and which found an early fan in Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. [ 2 ] Knowing many rock guitarists sought a way to create more distorted tones at lower volumes and without relying on fuzz pedals , DiMarzio released the "Super ...
Like the three-pickup Stratocaster which followed it in 1954, the Telecaster is a versatile guitar and has been used in many genres, including country, reggae, rock, pop, folk, soul, blues, jazz, punk, metal, alternative, indie rock, and R&B. The base model has always been available, and other than a change to the pickup selector switch ...
In 2012 the company began working on a new pickup for electric guitars. [4] Most guitar pickups are made with wire coiled around a magnet. The Fluence was a solid-core pickup with a conventional magnet and two 48-layer circuit boards [5] —a completely new approach, using techniques previously used in the aerospace and telecommunications sectors. [6]
Guitar pickups category lists essential models of pickups, ones that played important role in modern music, have an easily recognized "signature" sound, etc.