humbuckerequipped
Humbuckerequipped is an adjective used to describe musical instruments—most commonly electric guitars and basses—that are fitted with humbucker pickups. The phrase distinguishes such instruments from those that use single-coil pickups, which produce a different tone and are more susceptible to electromagnetic hum.
A humbucker consists of two coils mounted side by side with opposite magnetic polarity and wiring. This
Most humbucker-equipped instruments offer options such as coil splitting or coil tapping to approximate single-coil tones.
In gear catalogs and reviews, “humbucker-equipped” signals a guitar’s pickup configuration and is used to set