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Guitar & Bass Pickups

We carry pickups for just about any electric, acoustic or bass guitar on the market.
From vintage to modern, industry leading names to small boutique builders, budget friendly options to some of the best money can buy, we have what you need!

Guitar and Bass Pickups

Macdaddy Music carries a wide variety of guitar and bass pickups. Here is what you will find:

  • Lace Sensor Dually Red/Red bridge pickup - white

    Lace Sensor Dually Red/Red bridge pickup - white

    The Lace Sensor Dually Red/Red bridge pickup in white. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA!The Dually Red/Red pickup provides incredible flexibility.  Use it in full humbucker (series) mode or switch it to split mode or parallel.  This provides a...
    BZ$243.90
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  • Nordstrand Big Single 4 string pickup set

    Nordstrand Big Single 4 string pickup set

    The Nordstrand Big Single 4 string pickup set. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA!These pickups are all about huge, full, loud, aggressive single coil tone. They use the same magnet layout as the Fat Stack, and the resulting big coil is about as much...
    BZ$403.14
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  • Nordstrand FatStack 4 pickup set

    Nordstrand FatStack 4 pickup set

    The Nordstrand FatStack 4 pickup set. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! These are a proprietary Nordstrand design. The traditional bi-pole magnet layout was, literally, twisted in a new direction. By rotating the pole 45 degrees for each set we have...
    BZ$503.93
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  • Lace Sensor Gold Strat SSS Set - white

    Lace Sensor Gold Strat SSS Set - white

    The Lace Sensor Gold pickup set in white. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! The Lace Sensor Gold pickup set gives your Strat style guitar that classic tone that has defined so much of rock and roll history. Gold Lace Sensor are designed to duplicate an...
    BZ$362.83
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  • Nordstrand Precision Bass NP4 Pickup Nordstrand Precision Bass NP4 Pickup

    Nordstrand Precision Bass NP4 Pickup

    The Nordstrand Precision Bass NP4 Pickup. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! This is a faithful reproduction of one of the most famous pickups in the world. It will give a very big and full tone with the slightly hollow grind that the originals are known...
    BZ$288.25
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  • Lace Sensor Tele pickup set

    Lace Sensor Tele pickup set

    The Lace Sensor Tele pickup set. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! These pickups deliver the vintage Tele® twang and transform your guitar into a Tele® Plus. All the traditional vintage tone and clarity but without the noise. Smooth attack,...
    BZ$382.98
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  • Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ5 Single Coil pickup set Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ5 Single Coil pickup set

    Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ5 Single Coil pickup set

    The Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ5 Single Coil Pickup set. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! These are the same as the Nordstrand NJ4 pickups - just made for a 5 string bass. They feature the same vintage single coil J style pickups made with 60’s era...
    BZ$461.60
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  • Nordstrand PJ Bass NPJ4 Pickup Set Nordstrand PJ Bass NPJ4 Pickup Set

    Nordstrand PJ Bass NPJ4 Pickup Set

    The Nordstrand PJ Bass NPJ4 pickup set. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA!Combining two of Nordstrands popular bass pickups to create a set for PJ basses, the NPJ4 set will make your PJ bass sound better than you thought possible!  This set consists...
    BZ$479.74
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  • Lace Hemi Humbucker set - chrome

    Lace Hemi Humbucker set - chrome

    Lace Hemi™ Humbucker set in chrome FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! Serious Vintage humbucker and single coil tones combined. The humbucker characteristics allow for sweet beefy humbucker tone with no hum while the single coil characteristics...
    BZ$455.55
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  • Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ4 Single Coil Pickup Set Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ4 Single Coil Pickup Set

    Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ4 Single Coil Pickup Set

    The Nordstrand Jazz Bass NJ4 Single Coil Pickup set. FREE shipping anywhere in the USA! These are vintage single coil J style pickups made with 60’s era correct Heavy Formvar wire and Alnico V magnets. In winding these pickups we use a simulated...
    BZ$385.00
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Electric Guitar Pickups and Bass Guitar Pickups

Picking the right pickup for your guitar can feel daunting, but we are here to help you! Finding the right pickup for your instrument will help give you the sound you are looking for.

What kind of pickups are there?

There are two types of guitar pickups: single-coil and double-coil, also known as humbuckers. Single coil pickups will give you a brighter tone. Tele, Strat, and P90 are all single coil pickups that will give you different tones for your guitar. Humbucker will be loud, deep, and warm. Both types of pickups come in a range of voicing.

Do any pickups fit any guitar?

Guitar pickups are not universal. They come in many shapes and sizes and are often created to fit one type of guitar. You can do some modifications by re-routing your guitar pickup cavity if you are wanting a specific pickup. Single-coil pickups are often found on Fender Stratocasters and other similar guitars. Humbuckers are often found on Gibson Les Paul guitars (and other similar sized guitars). Gibson humbuckers are twice as wide as Strat pickups but there are stacked models that can be put in single coil routings.