RAISING THE TONE Opinion
Sunbear pickups have been popping up in increasing numbers of high-end guitar builds at the moment, most notably in Ivison Guitars’ Firebird-like Dakota model. Sunbear Pickups’ founder, Stuart Robson, is endlessly fascinated by the roots of great guitar tone and, in particular, how pickups interact with the rest of your guitar rig to make incredible sounds – or not, as the case may be. So, as this month’s issue is more or less devoted to the quest for tone, I thought I’d tap Stuart up for some advice on getting the best from your pickups, starting with how he would recommend going about choosing a new set of pickups for a guitar that seems to be lacking a certain something.
“The first thing that
