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You’ll notice one coil is longer than the other that’s how it is designed for bass guitars with an odd number of strings. Calling this pickup a “split-coil humbucker” is accurate (and in fact, that is what Nordstrand describes this pickup as verbatim).įor those of you wondering what a split-coil humbucker would look like in a 5-string version: However, as you can see above, there are two coils there this is a hum-canceling design ( more info here). Split-Coil in “J” Shape (Split-Coil Humbucker)Ī “J” pickup is traditionally a single-coil, and is named the “J” because it is in the shape of a pickup typically seen in a Fender Jazz Bass (with “J” for “Jazz”). Is this a humbucking pickup? In fact, yes it is. This type of pickup ( example) is most recognized in the Fender Precision Bass guitar model and is sometimes referred to as simply a “P-type”, “P-style” or just “P” (after “Precision” in Fender’s model name). But after you’ll read this, you’ll understand what truly counts as a humbucker and what doesn’t. …and this is where things can get a little bit confusing. To put it in the simplest definition possible, “humbucker” literally means “more than one coil”…

To answer the question of what counts as a humbucking pickup up front, it’s any pickup specifically designed to reduce what’s known as “mains hum”, which some know as 60-cycle hum. When going by the appearance of a pickup alone, one can get easily confused because there are pickups that have hum-canceling technology in them even though they look like a single-coil, and there are also humbuckers that look like humbuckers but are in fact tri-coil or even quad-coil.