This can cause some difficulty in choosing the right pickup if you’re mostly playing at home. The hotter the pickup, the more you push the amp towards breakup. The same principles applies to combining pickups and amps. Depending on what tones you want, a dark sounding guitar, will perhaps need brighter, low output pickups (Fender CS 54, 69), while a bright, thin sounding guitar, can be improved with a set of higher output pickups with more bass and mids (Fender Tex/Mex, Duncan SSL5, EMG DG20). Obviously, which pickups you should choose depends on your taste and purpose of use. Everyone has their special way of winding a pickup and it’s the small nuances that makes a difference. In the listings below, I’ve focused on the familiar and easily available models from Fender but I recommend that you check out similar models from different brands. You could very well just use whatever pickups you want or even make a pickup yourself but choosing a model that fits and enhances the timbre of your guitar, the tone of your amp and your technique, is important to get the tones you want. Like pedals, the pickups in your guitar are a part of your tone but perhaps more importantly, they pick up and transfer all the nuances in your playing. The type of wood, lacquer, frets, string gauge, pick etc will colour the resonance. The signal is induced and in turn amplified. The vibration is picked up by the pickup magnets that pushes the magnetic field through a stationary coil. When you pick a string, the vibration resonates between the wood (body and neck) and the strings. The more turns, the more output with more mid range and less highs. Less turns of the coil creates a cleaner, more transparent tone with less output. The tone characteristics of a pickup is a combination of different types of ALNICO magnets and coil, number of wounds and the technique used during the winding process. Simply put, a single coil pickup consists of a given length of coil, six magnet poles and mounting plates. In this feature we’ll look at different single coil models with David Gilmour’s tone in mind as well as a few tips and tricks. We spend most of our budget on expensive pedals but a tone starts with the guitar and its pickups. Choosing the right pickups for your guitar, is an often overlooked part of the whole tone search.
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