[APG] JAZZBUCKER
Designed with jazz players in mind. Warm, rich, articulate and dynamic.
EXPLORE JAZZBUCKER →[APG] MODERN PAF
Our take on the classic PAF. More dynamic, yet unmistakably classic and unique.
EXPLORE MODERN PAF →VICTOR SMOLSKI SIGNATURE ONE
We’re almost ready to announce that the VS SIGNATURE ONE pickups are ready to hit the road. Final testing is now underway.
STRATOBUCKER™ | TELEBUCKER™
Single-coil character. No hum.
Mini-humbuckers designed to retain the character and response of a single-coil – without the usual hum.
Two sounds. One pickup.
Selected models are also available with DualTone — two hum-free modes in one pickup: single-coil and humbucker.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT APG
Real experiences from musicians, builders and professionals.
Pastyl
5/5
What a fucking good choice. The guitar is incredibly versatile. Depending on your needs and preferences, the bridge pickup can work as either a single-coil or a humbucker. Completely silent, with absolutely no hum in any...
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setting. The power and knowledge of Andrzej. Hell yeah. Run to Poliakow as fast as you can. I wholeheartedly recommend it. Pastyl
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5 years ago
sg22
Reviewer
5/5
The guitar is all put together and tested, and the DUAL TONE NECK is an absolute killer. In humbucker mode, it has huge power and a beautifully balanced low end, mids and highs. In single-coil mode, it has that crystal-c...
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lear “glass” tone — and most importantly, that wonderfully quiet silence in every position!!! 🙂
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10 months ago
AndS
5/5
Beautifully fluid lead tones, warm cleans — I don’t think it gets much better than this. Plenty of power, a huge tone, and excellent clarity. I play in Drop C and it works brilliantly both with overdrive/distortion and c...
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lean tones. I use it together with the TeleBucker Dual Tone Bridge, and it sounds great in every switch position. I’m absolutely thrilled with it.
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4 years ago
Luthier
5/5
A phenomenal SSH set — it works brilliantly. Great clarity, depth and power.
I highly recommend APG.
5 years ago
addr11.gm
Reviewer
5/5
i bought this and i have another tele with a gibson 57 RI to compare with, all else is same. what the description says about open mids is right. gibson's upper mids make it sound more nasal to my ears, but then again, th...
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at's the sound that's been around for about 70 years so it has kind of established itself as such. take it or leave it.
anyways, telebucker is way more versatile IMO. you can get the jazz sound like Bickert, Mike Stern or any other tele-jazzer, but even go to single coil territory, no problem. i have a telebucker bridge pickup in the same guitar (and a middle pickup that's hidden underneath the pickguard) and this is probably my most versatile guitar.
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4 years ago
Kamil
5/5
Fantastic pickups offering a huge range of tones — very energetic and deep, with a full, expressive character. The glassy single-coil tone is exactly what I was looking for. And they really are hum-free!
5 years ago
Marcin Wełyczko
5/5
A fantastic-sounding pickup. It replaced a well-known-brand humbucker in my Tele — the one I jokingly call “Warm Rails” 😉 — and the tonal result is miles better! Full frequency range, clarity and presence in the mix. I...
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t sounds great in both coil configurations: parallel and series.
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5 years ago
chipales
5/5
Hi everyone! Let me start with a short story.
9–10 years ago, when I was still living in Belarus and playing music there, I went to a well-known local luthier, and he recommended an APG Pickups humbucker made by Andrz...
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ej Poliakow — a model endorsed by guitarist Viktor Smolski of RAGE.
As it happened, I now live and play music in Poland, and I’m also interested in the Polish rock scene. I heard the band Luxtorpeda and really liked their sound — it was definitely my kind of thing.
I did a little research online and found out that Luxtorpeda’s guitarist plays APG humbuckers. I got in touch with Andrzej Poliakow, and he recommended the LITZA model — the signature pickup of Luxtorpeda guitarist Litza.
The order was completed very quickly — literally by the end of the week, the humbucker was already with me. That same evening, I installed it in my Telecaster and plugged it into my amp.
And I’ll put it this way — this was exactly the sound I had been looking for!
Juicy, thick and spacious, with a sound that cuts through beautifully when playing with a band. When I play distorted chords, every note remains clearly audible — this humbucker is a perfect match for my band’s style!
I’ve already ordered a second pickup from Andrzej — this time for the neck position!
I recommend the LITZA humbucker to anyone who mainly plays riffs! Simply killer!!!
P.S. Here’s a YouTube link — I recorded a short video during rehearsal. Even though it was recorded on a phone, you can still hear how great the guitar sounds with the LITZA humbucker!
https://youtube.com/shorts/X0ioWTihPeY?si=0auITdq_OPw6tcZE
And if anyone is interested in what I play — here’s a link to my band’s website: www.biaznazvy.com
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1 year ago
Mirosław Fejcho
Reviewer
5/5
TeleBucker Dual Tone is the pickup I use most often. It is incredibly versatile. The construction of the guitar — or rather, the construction of the body — does make a difference in how these pickups perform. For some ti...
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me now, I have been building semi-hollow-body guitars because they have a more “open” sound. They are also perfectly suited to solid-body guitars. The ability to switch from series to parallel operation is absolutely fantastic. In series mode, the speaker delivers a whole spectrum of sounds that puts a big smile on your face. But switching to parallel mode brings you right back to the true character of a single-coil, with the invaluable advantage that there is no hum!!! Of course, you can use noise gates, but as we all know, even the best ones can cut off the initial attack of the note. In my opinion, that essentially disqualifies a noise gate as a solution for a true single-coil. With these pickups, even with a strong overdrive, rolling the volume down almost all the way transforms the tone into a saturated, “wire-like” clean. But hit the strings harder and the lions sleeping somewhere inside the guitar body suddenly wake up. Of course, this will only work if you use what is commonly known as a Tone Bleed — a resistor and capacitor connected in parallel across the volume pot, between the input and output of the guitar signal. Guitarists who play through tube amps at high power and fairly high volume, however, don’t always like this way of cutting the low end, because the tubes themselves seem to compensate for this effect. Another advantage of these pickups is that they can be used with both 250kΩ and 500kΩ pots. Naturally, each pot value gives you a different sound, so you have to try them in your own guitar and see which works better for you.
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11 months ago
AndS
5/5
I don’t think it gets much better than this. Plenty of power, a huge tone, and excellent clarity. I play in Drop C and it works brilliantly both with overdrive/distortion and clean tones. I use it together with the TeleB...
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ucker Vintage Neck, and it sounds great in every switch position. I’m absolutely thrilled with it.
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4 years ago
Mirosław Fejcho
5/5
The Modern PAF Bridge and Neck are the pickups I use most often in Les Paul-style guitars, mainly because of their classic character, but with certain elements of the tone brought forward that are sometimes missing from ...
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original Gibson pickups. As we all know, no two guitars are the same, because wood never grows in exactly the same way throughout its life. Even wood taken from the same tree trunk can have different acoustic properties. That is what still makes this work so fascinating — in reality, no luthier can know 100% what the final result will be, even though experience should give us the ability to get as close as possible. I can wholeheartedly recommend basically all APG pickups, but these are particularly well suited to Les Paul-style guitars, as I mentioned at the beginning. Have a nice sound!
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11 months ago
