The Ibanez AF200 is released under the Artstar brand, the Japanese company’s top of the range hollow-body guitars. This big jazz-box is clearly influenced by Gibson archtops such as the L5-CES. It’s fitted with Super 58 pickups in both bridge and neck positions and finished in a warm...
Hot single-coils can equal or even beat humbuckers in terms of output, and new ceramic and magnetic metal alloys in humbuckers are delivering signals so hot they could be mistaken for an active pickup. To add to the overlap, some humbucking pickups offer coil splitting, w...
system. It has two humbuckers (TCI) and a middle single-coil pickup (NS-01), which route to a push/pull tone knob that activates both humbuckers, for accessing three pickups simultaneously. On top of that, the mini toggles let you separate individual humbuckers for true single-coil ...
Pickupsinfluence the guitar's tone. Individuals looking for a bright tone and moderate output need a single-coil pickup. Those who want hotter output, such as musicians who prefer heavy metal tunes, need a humbucker for warm and fat sounds. New guitarists might choose a P-90-style pickup ...