Guitar Pickup

Single Coil

This type is most widely used Fender Stratocaster early generations, and is a forerunner in the world pickup. Most of this type are not large beroutput. This is the reason why heavy metal guitarist almost never use it. However, this type produces a distinctive sound, especially on the treble side and attack the main pillar sound so clean. For overdrivenya sound, he produces soft overdrive that a trade mark of blues music.

The weakness of this type is the noise. But with the development of technology and as more critical guitarists around the world, eventually present a low noise single coil and has a large output. As an active type of artificial EMG and Lace Sensor.
Or double-coil humbucker

double-coil Or humbucker

Noise is not a new problem in the world of pickup. He has been there since around the year 40s. Guitar manufacturer has been trying hard to find a way out. Finally found a solution by combining two single coil is going to cancel hum. This is the beginning of the birth of humbucker. The name comes from the hum and the buck which means minimizing noise. This design produces output added. That is the reason why the humbucker has a large output.

Piezo

This is the type of pickup that tried merepro acoustic guitar sound from an electric guitar. This species is almost never seen, because it is usually designed by combining the guitar like a model bridge Parker FLY. A successful name for this species is Fishman. So if you want an acoustic guitar sound from your electric guitar, change your guitar bridge equipped with Piezo pickups.

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