Guitar Pickups Explained - Single Coil vs P90 vs Humbucker - Which Pickup Is Best For You!

In this video Dagan talks you through the main differences and tonal properties between 3 of the most popular pickups on the market - the Single Coil, the Humbucker and the P-90! Also how different kinds of magnets effect the tone and how the pickups themselves are put together!

How does a P90 differ from a Single Coil when they're both technically 'Single Coils'? Is a Humbucker just 2 single coils glued together, and how does it stop that single coil hum? What on earth is up with all these different kinds of magnets?! Dagan answers all these questions and more in this short informative video!

0:00 Intro
1:00 What Will Be Mentioned In This Video & The Gear Used
3:00 What's A Single Coil Pickup, How Does It Work And Sound?
4:25 Single Coil Tones
8:05 What's A P90 Pickup, How Does It Work And Sound?
10:30 P90 Tones
14:28 What's A Humbucker, How Does It Work And Sound?
16:10 Humbucker Tones
19:44 Coil Tap & Coil Splitting Explained
20:24 What Is An Active Pickup?
21:41 Explaining Other Pickup Variations
22:50 Differences In Tonal Properties When Using Different Magnets
25:17 Final Thoughts & Outro

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