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Ok, so I was wonderin'.....

A humbucker is two single coils next to each other, because of the wiring or something it cancels the hum and gives you that lovely humbucker sound.

 

Those are standard single coils

 

Would a humbucker with two P-90s sound differend than a standard 'bucker?

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A conventional humbucker (or Humbucking pickup) is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils, both generating string signal. Humbuckers have high output since both coils are in series and because the magnetic circuit is low loss. Like a single coil pickup, a humbucker induces a slight magnetic field around the strings which in turn induce an electrical current on the coils as the strings vibrate. But since the two coils are of reversed polarity and reverse-wound and connected in series, noise and interference is significantly reduced via common-mode rejection. They get their name because they cancel out a large portion of the interference (they "buck the hum") induced by alternating current sources normally experienced with single coil pickups.

 

Magnetic "hum" is mostly created by transformers and power supplies inside various electrical equipment utilizing household AC current. As AC current is put though a coil, it induces a magnetic field around the coil that quickly becomes weaker with distance. When it reaches the guitar pickup, the strength is very slight, but once put through various pedals and amps it becomes much more evident. Using a guitar without humbuckers, a musician would hear a slight but annoying hum at the amp at silent sections of the music piece. Sources of magnetic hum generated in the studio and on stage include, but are not limited to, high power amps, processors, mixers, motors, etc., as well as criss-crossing power lines. Humbuckers dramatically reduce the hum effect compared to single coil pickups.

 

Humbuckers are great at cancelling out low sine wave frequencies (such as those produced by big AC transformers) but poor at canceling out higher frequencies and various harmonics (such as those produced by guitar strings).

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And the whole reason they were invented in the first place was to "buck the hum", not looking for a new tone. That was either a big bonus or a drawback, depending on what your personal preference is. The two coils are very close together but since they can't physically occupy the same space, they do get a slightly different "view" of the vibrating string and therefore some frequencies are accentuated and others are diminished.

 

I suppose if a person took 2 thin P90 sized coils and stacked them on TOP of one another they would buck the hum but still retain much of the P90 tone. I'm sure someone has already done that; I'm not one to swap pickups unless the existing ones suck beyond sucknirvana, then I go for overkill.

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Humbuckers have opposing windings and coils which is what makes them works so two p-90' wound and opposite of each other and with opposite poles would almost/kinda make a humbucker and yes you can stack the humbuckers also which is what the silent and single humbuckers made for Fender style guitars do.

 

thats why coil splits on a humbucker sound more like a single coil your shutting one of the coils down so you mimic a single coil.

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A conventional humbucker (or Humbucking pickup) is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils' date=' both generating string signal. Humbuckers have high output since both coils are in series and because the magnetic circuit is low loss. Like a single coil pickup, a humbucker induces a slight magnetic field around the strings which in turn induce an electrical current on the coils as the strings vibrate. But since the two coils are of reversed polarity and reverse-wound and connected in series, noise and interference is significantly reduced via common-mode rejection. They get their name because they cancel out a large portion of the interference (they "buck the hum") induced by alternating current sources normally experienced with single coil pickups.

 

Magnetic "hum" is mostly created by transformers and power supplies inside various electrical equipment utilizing household AC current. As AC current is put though a coil, it induces a magnetic field around the coil that quickly becomes weaker with distance. When it reaches the guitar pickup, the strength is very slight, but once put through various pedals and amps it becomes much more evident. Using a guitar without humbuckers, a musician would hear a slight but annoying hum at the amp at silent sections of the music piece. Sources of magnetic hum generated in the studio and on stage include, but are not limited to, high power amps, processors, mixers, motors, etc., as well as criss-crossing power lines. Humbuckers dramatically reduce the hum effect compared to single coil pickups.

 

Humbuckers are great at cancelling out low sine wave frequencies (such as those produced by big AC transformers) but poor at canceling out higher frequencies and various harmonics (such as those produced by guitar strings).

 

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And the whole reason they were invented in the first place was to "buck the hum"' date=' not looking for a new tone. That was either a big bonus or a drawback, depending on what your personal preference is. The two coils are very close together but since they can't physically occupy the same space, they do get a slightly different "view" of the vibrating string and therefore some frequencies are accentuated and others are diminished.

 

I suppose if a person took 2 thin P90 sized coils and stacked them on TOP of one another they would buck the hum but still retain much of the P90 tone. I'm sure someone has already done that; I'm not one to swap pickups unless the existing ones suck beyond sucknirvana, then I go for overkill.[/quote']

 

isnt' that exactly what the P100 was?

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