He then switched to playing custom Fender Stratocaster guitars that were modified with humbucker pickups. Gibson Les Paul guitars with P-90 pickups. Electric guitars sometimes mount pickups and electronics on the pickguard. The guitars feature Seymour Duncan EMTY Blackout pickups and d'Addario EXL117 strings. The Stratocaster is fitted with three custom made DiMarzio single coil pickups. Those that combine piezoelectric pickups and magnetic pickups are sometimes known as hybrid guitars. All three feature Fender N3 Noiseless pickups. Fender also installed special designed P-90-type high-output single-coil pickups. Texas Tele pickups (alnico III). Two types of noise afflict magnetic guitar pickups. They had the old Mustang bass style pickups. Dimarzio has designed and sold many such pickups. These scatter wound pickups have unbalanced coils to emulate vintage PAFs. It has a Modern Eagle inlay on the headstock and 57/08 pickups. An acoustic guitar can be amplified by using various types of pickups or microphones.