Topic: All about Humbucking PUPs from the father of the Humbucker
Good Day,
I came upon this innerview of Seth Lover by Seymour Duncan that
covers the history of the humbucking as well as Seth Lover's views on
How they work, best location, string height etc... here's an excerpt, as well as the
link to the article...great reading!
Cheers
"SWD: The pickups were designed using heavier strings than today.
Seth Lover: The pickups were designed using heavier strings with the high E being a .012 gauge and now they use .008 which moves the magnetic field much less. They just can’t generate enough energy with that size string. Some players say “my pickups are weak,” if they would only use a heavier string that the pickup was designed for they wouldn’t have any problem. I sometimes wonder if unconsciously if guys who are playing and bending their notes aren’t trying to get the string into tune that don’t have it quite in tune. Unconsciously I think their ears ought to slide a little bit higher in pitch. I’ve hear musicians talking about things that are just bothering the hell out of them--complaining and so forth and I’d listen and listen and I couldn’t hear. At the same time I could hear things in there that were bothering the hell out of me and they’d pay no attention to them. I hear something they don’t and they hear something I don’t. What are you going to do?"
1978 Seth E. Lover Interview on Gibson Humbucking Pickups
Interview by: Seymour W. Duncan (SWD), 6-13-78.
(This interview transcribed from audio tape.)
Location: Garden Grove, California-at the residents of Seth E. Lover - Inventor of the Gibson “Patent Applied For” Humbucking pickups.
Thanks to: Seymour Duncan! He did all all this cool interview work, and let me host it.
Hosted by: Vintage Guitars Info (guitarHQ.com) website (contact info)