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MEC Pickups With Brushed Metal Housings Now Available

MEC Pickups With Brushed Metal Housings Now Available

Among their many new products shown at NAMM, Warwick announced that MEC bass pickups would now be available with brushed metal housings. Now the pickups are available for purchase. The sets come in gold, black, and silver finishes.

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Fishman Introduces Fluence Legacy Series Pickups with Mike Inez

Fishman Introduces Fluence Legacy Series Pickups with Mike Inez

Fishman’s new multi-voiced Fluence pickups have gotten a new sub-category with the Fluence Legacy series, which brings recording artists in to recreate the tone for which they are known. They’ve launched the lineup with Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez.

EMG Unveils the Robert Trujillo “Rip Tide” Signature Pickup Set

EMG Unveils the Robert Trujillo “Rip Tide” Signature Pickup Set

EMG has expanded its lineup of signature bass pickups with the Robert Trujillo Signature “Rip Tide” Set. The Metallica bassist’s new pickups are described as a first with “stainless steel, black chrome caps to the world of the jazz bass.”

Northern Lutherie Introduces “Da Crusher” Double Bass Pickup

Northern Lutherie Introduces “Da Crusher” Double Bass Pickup

Northern Lutherie has introduced a new upright bass pickup called Da Crusher. Named in honor of the wrestler “who made Milwaukee famous,” the pickup is a stacked 20mm piezo system that is fitted into the bridge.

Aguilar Amplification Announces DCB-M4 and M5 Pickups

Aguilar Amplification Announces DCB-M4 and M5 Pickups

Aguilar introduced a new pickup design at the Summer NAMM Show with the DCB-M4 and M5. The pickups, which are four and five-string versions of the same model, are humbuckers in a familiar shape.

EMG Now Shipping Tom Araya, Frank Bello, and David Ellefson Signature Pickup Sets

EMG Now Shipping Tom Araya, Frank Bello, and David Ellefson Signature Pickup Sets

EMG has introduced three new signature sets of pickups with three of the biggest metal bass stars: Slayer’s Tom Araya, Anthrax’s Frank Bello, and Megadeth’s David Ellefson. Introduced at the 2019 Winter NAMM Show, each of the sets was dialed in with the artists.

Aguilar Announces the Super Split Bass Pickup

Aguilar Announces the Super Split Bass Pickup

Aguilar has expanded their offering of split-coil bass pickups with the Super Split. The hum-canceling pickups are built in a soapbar shape and designed to create “rich bass tone – crisp and open treble, barking midrange and huge lows.”

Fishman Unveils Fluence Soapbar Multi-Voice Bass Pickups

Fishman Unveils Fluence Soapbar Multi-Voice Bass Pickups

Fishman has expanded their Fluence line of pickups with a new set of Soapbar multi-voice bass pickups. The active pickups, come in four and five-string versions, offer three distinct voices to cover different playing styles.

Lollar Pickups Introduces ’70s J-Bass Pickup Set

Lollar Pickups Introduces ’70s J-Bass Pickup Set

Lollar Pickups has expanded their line of bass pickups with a new ’70s J-Bass set. The new pickups are designed to replicate the sound of an original ’75 Jazz Bass, but they’re not exact replicas.

Nordstrand Audio Introduces the Zen Blade Bass Pickup

Nordstrand Audio Introduces the Zen Blade Bass Pickup

Nordstrand Audio’s pickup line has gotten a little bigger with the Zen Blade, a classic sidewinder-style pickup with a ceramic bar magnet and slotted steel blade. The design allows for even tone across the fretboard and steady impedance, Nordstrand says. “One of its finest qualities is that the difference between its parallel and series personalities is subtle, creating a dimension...

Nordstrand Audio Unveils the Nordenbocker Pickup

Nordstrand Audio Unveils the Nordenbocker Pickup

Nordstrand Audio has expanded their pickup line with a drop-in replacement to fit a Rickenbacker 4003 neck pickup. The Nordenbocker is Nordstrand’s Big Single pickup design housed in the unique pickup size. “It even uses your stock pickup screws,” the company writes. “Louder and more aggressive tones can now be found in your neck pickup to keep up with the...

Nordstrand Audio Unveils the Big SplitMan Pickup

Nordstrand Audio Unveils the Big SplitMan Pickup

Nordstrand Audio has expanded their pickup line once again with a new creation called the Big SplitMan. It takes two of their Big Splits and puts them into the MM-style BigMan cover. “In essence, this pickup is a quad-coil BigMan with a cutthroat vendetta against hum and a raw energy slightly superseding the BigMan’s iconic aggression,” Nordstrand writes. “Its composition...