humbucker
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thumb|Open coil (uncovered) humbucker pickup thumb|Covered humbucker pickup on a Gibson Les Paul|Les Paul copy
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Function
- Alternative designs
- Mini-humbuckers
- Single coil form factor humbuckers
- Hot Rails style
- Stacked coils
- Rail Humbuckers (Full Size)
- <span id=“Coil splitting”></span>Coil splitting and coil taps
- Notable humbucker designs
- Other noise-reducing pickup designs
- Combining two single-coil pickups
- Proprietary designs
- See also
- References
- Other sources
- External links
thumb|Open coil (uncovered) humbucker pickup thumb|Covered humbucker pickup on a Gibson Les Paul|Les Paul copy
A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups. Humbucking coils are also used in dynamic microphones to cancel electromagnetic hum. Humbuckers are one of two main types of guitar pickups. The other is called a single coil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “humbucker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.