Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

[beggar_guitar]

The title is the question...

 

[davedvdy]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

Trembuckers are humbuckers for guitars which spacing is for bridges w/tremolos, such as Stratocasters or guitars w/Floyd Roses. It is so that the pole pieces on the pickup line up with the strings.

 

[beggar_guitar]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

Thank ya very much!

So I wouldn't put a Trembucker on an LP?

I almost pulled the trigger on one, but decided to check since I wasn't certain.

 

[davedvdy]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

Thank ya very much!

So I wouldn't put a Trembucker on an LP?

I almost pulled the trigger on one, but decided to check since I wasn't certain.

No, don't order one for that, lol.

In fact, even if you had a strat w/2 humbuckers, you would'nt put the trembucker in the neck, only in the bridge where the spacing is wider.

That's where the word Trem(bucker), comes from...Tremolo

 

[beggar_guitar]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

That's what I was thinking. Thanks!

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

I never hesitate to put a regular humbucker in a trem guitar, because honestly it makes no difference in sound. The magnetic field picks up everything fine.
If not, your sound would drop out when you bend notes.

On the other hand, there's a chance that trembucker pickups will be slightly too wide to fit in guitars made for regular humbuckers.

Another bit of trivia.....on strats, the low and high E strings are barely over the neck pickup poles.

 

[davedvdy]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

I never hesitate to put a regular humbucker in a trem guitar, because honestly it makes no difference in sound. The magnetic field picks up everything fine.
If not, your sound would drop out when you bend notes.

On the other hand, there's a chance that trembucker pickups will be slightly too wide to fit in guitars made for regular humbuckers.

Another bit of trivia.....on strats, the low and high E strings are barely over the neck pickup poles.

That has been debated here before. When I purchased an SH-4 for the bridge of my strat, I didn't realize that a Trembucker was the spacing made for that.

I replaced it w/the Trembucker version, and I don't hear a drop out on the high E string, anymore. Most don't hear the difference, but I know Lew, and some others besides myself did notice it.

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

are there any "standard" guitars that use trembuckers and have no tremolo?

 

[watersbluebird]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

my epi LP standard needed trem spacing humbuckers. i didn't get one of these and the low E pole was inside the E string. didn't make a blind bit of difference mind.

 

[MikeS]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

On the other hand, there's a chance that trembucker pickups will be slightly too wide to fit in guitars made for regular humbuckers.

I thought the overall width was the same? The bobbins are a smidge wider, but the distance is the same (virtually) from mouting tab to mounting tab. Check out the dimensions of the SH-1 vs. the TB-1b.

On a LP with 2-1/16" string spread (2.0625") I'd use a trembucker (2.07" between centerlines of outside poles) if I were ordering a pup. A regular spaced humbucker will work just fine, though. To my ears trem spacing vs regular spacing is as much about appearance as it is tonal difference.

 

[PoorMan]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

Thank ya very much!

So I wouldn't put a Trembucker on an LP?

I almost pulled the trigger on one, but decided to check since I wasn't certain.

Depends on the LP. What kind of Paul is it? Newer LP Standards have wider string spacing thans say a 57 reissue (or real 57).

 

[aerial7]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

A bit off topic....

Don't ask how, but in a state of confusion I wound up putting a trembucker into a stock American Std strat. And yeah, the poles didn't line up with the strings.

Later, I put in an LR Baggs piezo bridge. And now the poles DO line up with the strings. Guess the spacing on the bridge is just a bit wider than stock.

 

[Voxman]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

That has been debated here before. When I purchased an SH-4 for the bridge of my strat, I didn't realize that a Trembucker was the spacing made for that.

I replaced it w/the Trembucker version, and I don't hear a drop out on the high E string, anymore. Most don't hear the difference, but I know Lew, and some others besides myself did notice it.

me too Actually the other guitarist in my band made a comment about it too !

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Difference in a Trembucker and a Humbucker?

That has been debated here before. When I purchased an SH-4 for the bridge of my strat, I didn't realize that a Trembucker was the spacing made for that.

I replaced it w/the Trembucker version, and I don't hear a drop out on the high E string, anymore. Most don't hear the difference, but I know Lew, and some others besides myself did notice it.

+1

There IS a difference, and it´s most noticable when playing clean. Most people that use primarily distorted tones won´t recognize the difference nearly as readily.... but it´s still there