Single coil guitar pickup
A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass. It electromagnetically converts the vibration of the strings to an electric signal. Single coil pickups are one of the two most popular designs, along with dual-coil or "humbucking" pickups.
A typical single coil guitar pickup: copper wire wrapped around a bobbin which holds magnetic pole pieces adjacent to a magnet.
Gibson P-90 soap bar
P90 dog ear
Two pickups on a Telecaster
Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure. The signal from a pickup can also be recorded directly.
Three magnetic pickups on a Peavey Raptor with the pickup configuration of a fat-strat (H-S-S). The bridge (right) pickup is a humbucker and the neck (left) and middle pickups are single coils.
Split pole pickups, Fender Jazz Bass
Single coil pickups, Fender Stratocaster (1963)
PRS's Dragon humbucker
