I have been dabbling with pickup wiring and combinations for about 30 years, ever since my family first trusted me with a soldering iron and an electric guitar in the same room. Over this time I've done a lot of experimentation, found some great sounds, and made plenty of mistakes. Here's your chance to take the fast road to the good sounds! There's plenty of information over the following pages - start here.

What follows applies to any style or quality guitar, although higher quality guitars will generally give more even and predictable sounds. I have used the term "strat" (with a small "s") to refer to the common 3 single coil Fender Stratocaster style of guitar.

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Related Links

• Harmony Central Pickups Database - users' opinions of different pickups
• Setting Pickup Heights
• Lollar Guitars & Pickups - make your own pickups!
• Pickup Winder Web Page - making your own pickup winders

Some Pickup Manufacturers

• DiMarzio
• EMG - active pickups
• Fender Accessories
• Fishman - acoustic pickups
• Gibson Accessories
• Ibanez
• Joe Barden
• Kinman - authentic tone single-coil hum-cancelling pickups
• Lace (AGI)
• Lindy Fralin
• L R Baggs - acoustic pickups
• Paul Reed Smith Accessories
• Rio Grande
• Schecter
• Seymour Duncan
• Tom Anderson
• TV Jones - Filter'Tron pickups