Humbucker Single coil

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Blueswaite

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Does anyone make a humbucker pickup but is single coil so you don't get the hum. I have a Brian Moore I2.13 and I like single coil sound but when you put it in split mode to get a single coil there is alot of hum as usual with a single coil. I though I read somewhere some one made a humbucker size pickup that was actually single coil with no hum.
Thanks for any help
 
Re: Humbucker Single coil

Blueswaite said:
Does anyone make a humbucker pickup but is single coil so you don't get the hum. I have a Brian Moore I2.13 and I like single coil sound but when you put it in split mode to get a single coil there is alot of hum as usual with a single coil. I though I read somewhere some one made a humbucker size pickup that was actually single coil with no hum.
Thanks for any help
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well, no true single coil will be completely hum free, there are stacked single coils, and pickups like the phat cats that are humbucker-sized, but they aren't hum free.
 
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The Seymour Duncan Jazz used in the neck position has a Strat-like sound to my ears. It's a true humbucker and not designed to replicate a single coil but it has that top-end clarity that normally comes with a single-coil.
 
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This is a very loaded thread, that will no doubt get much bigger. In short, I believe the answer currenlty is no, and when someone gets it, they will have printed money. As I understand it, all noiseless single coils are still in one way or another made of two coils that "buck" one another. There are many types of humbuckers that emulate single coils - most major manufacturers make at least one. But these are all still humbuckers.

I have a Kinman 60s tele bridge, and while it is not 100% single coil, it is by far the most accurate single coil emulation that I have heard. But again, it is technincally a humbucker.

If all you are looking for is a humbucker that sounds like a single coil, sorry for overcomplicating your thread.
 
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