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- noun Plural form of
humbucker .
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Examples
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It has a set neck, PAF humbuckers (although custom pickups are always available--Seymor Duncan P 90 Soapbars are my personal favorite) and comes in a variety of flavors (Standard, Custom, Studio, etc.)
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Then towards half way on the distortion the pedal begins to get into metal levels of distortion and begins to be slightly less bass heavy but the single coils begin to lose definition and the humbuckers lose almost none.
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I just got a new guitar; and I've never really used humbuckers until these past few days.
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Came with (I am assuming) stock humbuckers that have a "patent applied for" sticker on the back of them.
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AL2000 features 2 Gold-covered Ceramic humbuckers, master volume and tone for each pickup, and a 3-way toggle switch.
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The humbuckers still maintain their definition and tone at the highest level of distortion and sound wonderful.
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Other blues guys use LPs (humbuckers .. fat tone ..) .. take Joe Bonamassa,
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Artec HBBA-XBB humbuckers: both have alnico 5 magnets and adjustable hex-key pole pieces (just like DM's!)
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At a low level of distortion the pedal has a unusual yet flavorful crunch tone on the single coils and adds a lot of bass to the tone, with the humbuckers the crunch is very thick but the tone isn't lost in the increased bass.
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Epiphone MIK humbuckers, squire neck, ash body custom made by
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