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Humbucker logo #21000 A humbucking pickup, or humbucker is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils to `buck the hum` (or cancel out the interference) picked up by coil pickups. Most pickups use magnets to produce a magnetic field around the strings, and induce an electrical current in the coils as the strings vibrate (a notable exception is the piezoelec.....
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Humbucker logo #211882 single coil pickups, side by side, and wired to that the electronic hum you get with most single coil pickups is canceled out
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Humbucker logo #20447Pickups that are coupled together to get a certain sound.
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