What is Humbucker?
[[File:Gibson_Humbuckers.jpg|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Gibson_Humbuckers.jpg/220px-Gibson_Humbuckers.jpg|thumb|Humbuckers on a Gibson Invader|207x207px]]A '''humbucking pickup''' (also known as '''humbucker''', or '''double coil)''' is a type of [[Pickup (music)|guitar pickup]]. They uses two wire coils to cancel out the noisy interference picked up by coil pickups. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Home {{!}} DiMarzio {{!}} Guitar Pickups, Bass Pickups, Pedalboard Cables, Straps and more.|url=https://www.dimarzio.com/|access-date=2022-08-24|website=www.dimarzio.com}}</ref> Humbuckers are one of the two main types of guitar pickup, the other being single coil.<ref>{{Cite web|title=USRE20070.pdf|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/USRE20070.pdf|access-date=2022-08-24|website=docs.google.com}}</ref> In any magnetic pickup, a vibrating guitar string, magnetized by a fixed magnet within the pickup, induces an alternating voltage across its coil. == Sources == <references /> [[Category:Musical instruments]] {{music-stub}}