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Category: Pickups

Micah Johnson started playing music in high school, when he taught himself the bass to join his friend’s band. He added guitar and drums during his twenties playing in local clubs, and along the way, he picked up unique, hands-on experience from hand drums to studio mixers. On Song Simian, he aims to share this knowledge from 20+ years playing and recording music. When not in gearhead mode, he enjoys photography and travel.

Mini Humbucker vs P90 –Which Is Better? (ANSWERED)

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Before we begin discussing whether a P90 or a mini humbucker is a better option for you, we should be clear on one point: both of these pickups are great. It’s just that certain playing styles would be complemented by some or hindered by the other, which means that you should pick the magnet that […]

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The 4 Best Squier P Bass Pickups – Reviews 2023

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The Precision Bass guitar was the first bass-like instrument in the electrical guitar world. Invented and made popular by Leo Fender, the P Bass guitars are outfitted with different set of pickups when compared to Jazz bass guitars – most models have a single coil split pickup, sporting a minimalist design and a huge level […]

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The 4 Best Bridge Pickups – Reviews 2023

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Upgrading your bridge pickup is the easiest way to give your guitar tone a serious upgrade. The pickup market is so saturated, though, that it can be downright overwhelming trying to sift through them for the perfect one. Like everything that goes into your guitar’s tone, the right pickup is a matter of personal preference, […]

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The 4 Best Humbucker Sized P90 Pickups – Reviews 2023

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Installing most P90 pickups on a guitar built for humbuckers is a hassle. It’s not just a matter of connecting a few wires. Getting a pickup to fit on a guitar it wasn’t designed for requires modifications to the guitar itself, permanently altering the body of the instrument. Humbucker sized P90s solve this problem by […]

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The 4 Best Death Metal Pickups – Reviews 2023

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So why spend time figuring out the right death metal pickups? Well, non-metal musicians think that death metal is all about noise and random notes, but the truth can’t be further from that. Death metal guitarists are total geeks when it comes to tech stuff, and picking the appropriate pickup set is all but easy. […]

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The 4 Best Single Coil Pickups For Metal – Reviews 2023

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So why get single-coil pickups for metal? If you ask any guitar player which pickups are best for a rough tone, especially related to metal music, their answer will always be humbuckers. With that said, we have seen single coils being used successfully in this role. Just take a look at Iron Maiden for actual […]

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The 4 Best Pots for P90 Pickups – Reviews 2023

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Which pots to get for P90 pickups? Well, the P90 pickup gives players a sound that’s comfortably in between the more common styles of a standard single-coil design and a double-coil humbucker. They tend to produce less noise than your typical single-coil pickup but have a brighter tone than most humbuckers, more similar to the […]

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The 4 Best Strat Middle Pickups – Reviews 2023

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The middle pickup on a Stratocaster is one of the components most responsible for giving the guitar its distinctive sound—which makes it ironic that it is also one of the most often overlooked components when players are looking to upgrade their sound. Of course, it’s used in conjunction with either the neck or the bridge […]

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The P90 vs. Humbucker Comparison – Pickups Review 2023

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Ahh, the eternal comparison: P90 vs Humbuckers. From the late 1940s through the early 1950s, the P90 was the standard pickup for Gibson electric guitars. The reason for their popularity was that they were the hottest pickups the guitar world had ever seen, capable of putting out bolder, more powerful rock guitar sound, without the […]

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The 4 Best MIM Strat Pickups – Fender MIM Pickup Reviews 2023

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So why do folks want to replace the standard MIM Strat pickups? Many of the same internal components are used between the American-made and the Mexican-made Stratocasters, and while some people will tell you the MIM Strat uses an inferior build quality, others assert the only difference between them is the price. However, the one […]

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