What are Guitar Pickups?
A guitar pickup, also known as a transducer, is an electromagnetic device that gives electric guitars their distinctive sound. Working on the principle of magnetic induction, it creates a magnetic field around itself, “pick ups” vibrations of the steel or nickel guitar strings as they interrupt the magnetic field, and converts them to an electrical signal. This signal is then relayed to a guitar amplifier and converted into an audible sound. Guitar pickups are also employed in acoustic guitars to produce louder volumes than possible with naturally produced sound-box amplification. The structure of a pickup is simple. It consists of a thin rectangular magnet wrapped in a bobbin made of several thousand turns of very fine copper electrical wire. There can be a single coil-wrapped magnet reaching across all of a guitar’s six strings or a separate one for each string. These magnets are attached with screws to the guitar body, under the strings, with the magnetized surface in the upward dir
