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Whether you’re looking for a humbucker pickup as an upgrade for your favorite guitar, or for one of your own guitar builds, you’ve come to the right place. Sweetwater offers a huge range of the best humbucker pickups from world-renowned manufacturers including Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, EMG, and many more. You’ll also find bass humbucker pickups for your 4-, 5-, or even 6-string bass guitar, mini humbucker pickups, and active humbucker pickups covering a huge range of tones. In other words, no matter what your musical needs are, we’re sure you’ll find the best humbucker pickups for your instrument here.
Humbucker Pickups
To understand the sonic tenacity of humbucker pickups you don’t have to listen any further than Slash from Guns N’ Roses‚ that aggressive punch even on his highest notes are all humbucker. Or listen to the grinding chugs delivered by James Hetfield from Metallica, often playing through a set of EMG active humbucker pickups. Compared to single-coil pickups, humbucker pickups have more tonal girth, generally deliver higher output, and eliminate noise caused by radio interference. Outside of rock and metal styles, guitarists choose humbucker pickups when they want wide-ranging tonality with as little noise as possible. In other words, no matter what your musical style, there’s a humbucker pickup for you.
Passive and Active Humbucker Pickups
As you explore our wide selection of humbucker pickups, you’ll find two distinct types‚ passive humbuckers and active humbuckers. Passive humbuckers can typically be installed in any guitar as-is, connecting to the existing tone and volume controls without any extra components. Active humbuckers are powered by a 9-volt battery, and often include a preamp and volume controls. Many guitars that were built for passive pickups can accept active pickups with some minor alterations to the instrument. If you’d like to know more about humbucker pickups in general, visit our humbucker pickup page.
Mini Humbucker Pickups
Not all humbucker pickups feature the traditional humbucker size and shape (based on the original PAF humbucker pickups originally designed by Seth Lover for Gibson). Mini humbucker pickups, famously featured on the Gibson Firebird guitar, offer humbucking operation in a smaller size. The end result of this narrower design gives mini humbucker pickups an extra sense of focus and clarity. You’ll also find humbucker pickups designed to fit into single-coil-equipped guitars. Sometimes referred to as stacked-coil pickups, single-coil-sized humbucker pickups are a great way to add punch and girth to a single-coil-equipped guitar without requiring any additional routing.
Shop the Best Humbucker Pickups
There’s a lot to consider when you’re trying to find the best guitar pickups for your favorite instrument. If you’d like to know more about how to find the perfect guitar pickups for you, check out this article on picking the perfect pickup. Even better, give your Sweetwater Sales Engineer a call and let them know you’re searching for new humbucker pickups for your guitar. We work closely with leading pickup manufacturers to stay on top of the latest pickup technology, and we’re always happy to help you find what you’re looking for. And if you aren’t comfortable performing the installation, you can always contact the Sweetwater Guitar Workshop. Our expert guitar techs can handle practically any type of installation you could ask for.
