Takuto Yudasaka, visiting scholar at McGill University and researcher at Yamaha, present their work on the physics behind electric guitar pickups Wednesday, May 15, at 10:30 a.m. EDT as part of a ...

and auto stop for when the pickup is complete. Electric guitar pickups are simple devices – just a magnet for each string wrapped in thousands of turns of wire about as thin as a human hair.

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

To be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...

NAMM 2025: ESP has rolled out its 2025 roster of electric guitars, and it’s gone big on single-pickup builds, with several big-name signature models setting the trend. Chief among them is the ...