Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi and Gibson have teamed up for a signature humbucker guitar pickup.

While it’s true that the sound ultimately comes from you and your attention to expression, we feel that different pickups on the same guitar can sound, well, different from each other.

Fender Japan makes some of the iconic guitar firm’s most exciting products, but we know very little about how it operates… ...

To the uninitiated an electric guitar seems fairly simple: you pluck a string and the electronics send the corresponding audio signal on the 6.3 mm jack output, all ready for for the amplifier to w… ...

In theory, learning the acoustic guitar is no different from learning the electric. The chords are the same, you need to put just as much effort into memorizing the notes, and strumming is identical.

Each type of pickup offers a different tone, so experiment to see which suits your style of playing best. We’ve saved you some time by sampling a range of models to suit every type of acoustic guitar ...

Best electric guitar pickups: Music Radar's choice Our top pick for the best electric guitar pickups has to be the Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates. The Pearly Gates draws on the influence of the past to ...

The pickups assigned to the different positions on an electric guitar's toggle switch are preset by the maker, and tweaking them involves breaking out the soldering iron and lots of experimenting ...

But there are key differences that are very important to know about – from the material of the strings to the shape of the wooden body and fret board, which determine how the instrument sounds and ...