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A pickup is a part of an electric guitar or bass that "hears" the strings and turns their vibrations into sound. It’s usually attached to the guitar's body, but sometimes it’s placed on other parts like the bridge (where the strings rest) or the neck. Pickups come in different types: Single coil pickups: One coil "listens" to all the strings.
A P.A.F., or simply PAF ("Patent Applied For"), is an early model of the humbucker guitar pickup invented by Seth Lover in 1955, so named for the "Patent Applied For" decal placed on the baseplate of each pickup. [1] Gibson used the PAF on guitars from late 1956 until late 1962, long after the patent was granted. [1]
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 ...
Economy picking is a guitar picking technique designed to maximize picking efficiency by combining alternate picking and sweep picking; it may also incorporate the use of legato in the middle of alternate picking passages as way to achieve higher speed with fewer pick strokes.
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 ...
The Fender Noiseless series is a line of electric guitar pickups made by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation designed to cancel 60 cycle (Hz) hum noise while retaining the characteristic sound of single coil pickups, but belonging to the family stacked Humbuckers. Introduced in 1998, these pickups consist of a pair of single coils ...
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]
The DiMarzio "Super Distortion" pickup, introduced in 1972, was the first after-market replacement guitar pickup. With its much-increased output compared to humbuckers installed in guitars of the time, it became an instant favourite of many hard-rock guitarists, and it remains a popular choice for a pickup upgrade decades later.