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Double stack single coil vs humbucker9/11/2023 ![]() ![]() WHAT MAKES A PLAYER CHOOSE SINGLE-COILS OR DOUBLE-COILS? Almost all double-coil pickups are humbuckers, though they are sometimes wired to provide the option of humbucking and non-humbucking operation. ![]() Meanwhile, “humbucker” has become the generic term for any pickup that pairs two coils to reduce unwanted noise. There have been countless variations on the design over the last half-century, yet many players still seek out the original P.A.F. When these revolutionary pickups first appeared on Gibson guitars, they bore a sticker reading “Patent Applied For,” and thus became known as “P.A.F.” pickups. Then Seth Lover, an engineer at Gibson, realized that combining two single-coil structures into one pickup, wiring them out of phase and with their magnetic poles oriented in opposite directions, cancelled-or “bucked”-electrical hum. Single-coil pickups sound great, but they can be noisy, transmitting electrical hum and buzz along with the sound of the strings.
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