Pickups are the most important factor in the sound of an electric guitar. Other things will affect it as well, but the pickups help shape the fundamental tone and will react to how you play. Since ...

Kirk Hammett has said he thinks the age of active pickups may be over, at least when it comes to his own playing. The Metallica guitarist made the comments in a recent interview with Guitarist, in ...

Bold guitarists looking to push boundaries can go down the digital processing rabbit hole, but Verso's latest oddball build takes a more mechanical approach to shaping tones. The Sine guitar rocks ...

Every electric guitar presents a problem. It’s the fascinating sort of problem that musicians delight in confronting, over and over again. But is it ever really solved? The problem is tone. How do you ...