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The mini-humbucker is a humbucking guitar pickup (used in electric guitars). It was originally created by the Epiphone company. The mini-humbucker resembles a Gibson PAF humbucker, but is narrower in size and senses a shorter length of string vibration. [1] This produces clearer, brighter tones that are quite unlike typical Gibson sounds. [2]
The Stratotone H44 was a "thin body" "Spanish electric" (i. e. electric, as opposed to "Hawaiian electric" lap steel guitars) single-cutaway guitar with a "copper-bronze" finish. The single single-coil pickup in a neck position came with tone and volume controls and a switch between "rhythm" and "lead" characteristics.
The Harmony Guitar Company ceased in 1975, [4] and sold the Harmony name. In the early 2000s, an unrelated company, the Westheimer Corp., based in Lake Barrington, Illinois briefly imported "reissue" Harmony guitars. In 2018, BandLab Technologies claimed to be "relaunching" the Harmony brand with a new series of electric guitars and guitar amps.
Guitar pickups category lists essential models of pickups, ones that played important role in modern music, have an easily recognized "signature" sound, etc. See also Guitar pickup manufacturers . Subcategories
In 2012 the company began working on a new pickup for electric guitars. [4] Most guitar pickups are made with wire coiled around a magnet. The Fluence was a solid-core pickup with a conventional magnet and two 48-layer circuit boards [5] —a completely new approach, using techniques previously used in the aerospace and telecommunications sectors. [6]
Teisco guitars became notable for unusual body shapes, such as the May Queen design resembling an artist's palette, or other unusual features such as having four pickups (most guitars have two or three). The vast amount of controls; typically an individual switch for each pickup, plus a tone or phase inversion switch, along with as many as five ...
This makes it possible to fit Alumitones into almost any standard pickup or humbucker routing. Lace produces Alumitones for guitar, bass, pedal steel, extended range guitars and basses, cigar box guitars, and more. Sonically, the pickups produce more bass than traditional single coils, more volume, mids are slightly more than conventional pickups.
A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups. Humbucking coils are also used in dynamic microphones to cancel electromagnetic hum. Humbuckers are one of two main types of guitar pickups. The other is called a single coil.