Notable Humbucker Designs
- Gretsch Filter'Tron Prototype - Ray Butts' first humbucker design
- Gibson "PAF" - Seth Lover's famous humbucker design
- Fender Wide Range - Fender's first humbucker design, also by Seth Lover
- Epiphone (and later Gibson) mini-humbucker - a smaller humbucker design with adjustable pole pieces. An Epiphone design from the 1950's originally, they were later used most famously in their Les Paul Deluxe.
- Gibson Firebird pickup - inspired by the Epiphone pickup, and shares its basic dimensions, but is different in terms of design, appearance, and tone, utilizing single blade pole pieces.
- Q-tuner: neodymium magnet humbuckers
- EMG Pickups - Active pickups since 1976
- Gretsch FilterTron - from 1957 to present; famously used on the Country Gentleman and other hollow-body guitars.
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