Mini-humbucker

The mini-humbucker is a humbucking guitar pickup (used in electric guitars) originally created by The Epiphone Company. This pickup resembles a small Gibson PAF humbucker although, it is constructed differently and produces clearer, brighter tones that are quite unlike typical Gibson sounds, and fits well between single coils and full-sized humbuckers in the tonal spectrum. It is frequently used in jazz guitars, mounted under the fingerboard or on the pickguard.

The mini-humbucker pickup was acquired by Gibson after their purchase of Epiphone in the late 50s. After this acquisition Gibson began using the pickup on various models. They continued to use them on many Epiphone electric guitars (now manufactured under license for Gibson) and several of Gibson's archtop jazz guitars. A slightly different variation of the mini-humbuckers were used on Gibson Firebird guitars, thus giving them a very distinctive tone.

The Firebird pickup uses a pair of long 'rail' magnets whereas the Les Paul Deluxe mini-humbucker uses individual magnets for pole pieces. The Les Paul Deluxe mini-humbucker has adjustment screws for the pole pieces; the Firebird mini-humbucker does not.

In the 1970s, mini-humbuckers replaced Gibson's original P-90 single-coil pickups on several of Gibson's budget guitar models, as well as the Les Paul Deluxe: the size and shape meant that it could fit very comfortably into the space occupied by the P-90, so no extra routing was required in the solid body guitars. Only select re-issue Gibson models are still made with Mini-Humbuckers, as they are less popular than standard humbuckers.

A mini-humbucker type of pickup design is also used for the pickups in Rickenbacker 650 guitars and 4004 basses.

A number of third party manufacturers make mini-humbucker replacement pickups. Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, Guitar Fetish, Chris Klein, Curtis Novak and Jason Lollar as of 2011 have replacement mini-humbuckers.

Noteable Users

Johnny Winter has used a Gibson Firebird guitar since the late 1960's. His tone is centered on the Firebird mini-humbucker.

Pete Townsend of The Who used a number of Gibson Les Paul Deluxe guitars in the 1970's that featured the mini-humbucker.

Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) and Barry Bailey (Atlanta Rhythm Section) are users of the mini-humbucker.

References

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/Gibson%20Gear/Pickups/Mini-Humbucker/

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Firebird/Gibson-USA/Firebird-V-2010.aspx

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/electric/specialized/mini-humbucker/

http://minihumbuckers.com/

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/May/Humbuckers_and_Mini_Humbuckers.aspx

http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/lpdeluxe.html

http://www.thegibsonshop.com/guitars/les-paul/gibson-pete-townshend-les-paul-deluxe-1

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