TURN ON THE TAPS!
I’m sure somewhere some diligent person has listed all the companies, large and small, all over the world that make retrofit pickups for us to swap. If that list ran to 300 or more, I wouldn’t be surprised… although it’s probably higher. And when we consider that most pickup makers offer various types of pickups – full-size humbuckers, single coils for Fender-styles, P-90s, not to mention more leftfield designs such as mini-humbuckers or Gold Foils and the like – the actual number of pickups made each year could be rather staggering. That doesn’t even include all the pickups that are made for the actual guitars we buy.
Like every other area of guitar-related gear, we have the choice of price and origin, but that doesn’t tell us much. The thing is, a pickup doesn’t make a sound without a guitar. You can visit the pickup makers’ websites and watch endless videos about the units, but until you buy the pickup and load it
