Three Humbucker

[achang9]

I was looking around and I saw a Les Paul with three humbuckers. At first I didn't realize it, but later I thought, how is this even possible? Would a Les Paul sound better with THREE humbuckers? I think it's a bit obscene, maybe.

[WindowLedge]

It wouldn't sound "better", but I guess you'd have an extra tonal options.

And with three coil tapped buckers and enough switches, you can get something like 94 tonal combinations (take that PRS!) which no one would ever need but you get them just so you can say you have them

[achang9]

No wonder they don't make much of them...hah.

[TheColdNovRain89]

my fried has a kramer voyager with 3 humbuckers and when all three pickups atre turned on it has a cool growl to it

[Crysiss]

I was looking around and I saw a Les Paul with three humbuckers. At first I didn't realize it, but later I thought, how is this even possible? Would a Les Paul sound better with THREE humbuckers? I think it's a bit obscene, maybe.

You should see the guitar with 4 humbuckers

EDIT: cant find link anymore.

or a guitar with no humbuckers lol

EDIT 2: Found link http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=355163

[ibanezman575]

the octobucker?

[Crysiss]

Thats a pretty funny thread haha. I didnt quite look into it when i seen it during summer. Feels like an idiot now.

[ibanezman575]

god that thread's so old

[mike-o]

gibson / epiphone black beauty has 3 humbuckers. if thats what you're asking.

im pretty sure ive seen a 7 string with 4 EMGs that looked like an RG. too lazy to find a link though

[achang9]

I'm talking about Guitars that have 2 humbuckers that are made into 3 humbucker guitars. Should we purchase them or leave them be? =/

[Anthem]

I think i should also note that 3 humbucker guitar problably suffer a slight sustain loss due to the extra bucker.

[blader]

not much point to 3 humbuckers, they arnt that much betta and all you pay extra over other gutiard is the extra humbucker. The black beuty LP is the guitar with 3 humbuckers (not customised)

[mike-o]

I'm talking about Guitars that have 2 humbuckers that are made into 3 humbucker guitars. Should we purchase them or leave them be? =/

Oh. I've never seen one with 2 humbuckers at 3 coils a piece, but this is one lead humbucker with 3 coils, the Hamer prototype. Pretty fugly imo.

http://www.hamerfanclub.com/proto.html

[seibel88]

Oh. I've never seen one with 2 humbuckers at 3 coils a piece, but this is one lead humbucker with 3 coils, the Hamer prototype. Pretty fugly imo.

http://www.hamerfanclub.com/proto.html

That's not a 3 coil humbucker. That is a humbucker and a single coil set really close together.

It is hard to believe now but the Prototype was genuinely radical in 1980, including a humbucker and single-coil pickup on the same guitar. Musicians had customised their guitars to include both types of pickup and Fender had played with the idea on a few Telecasters but Hamer were the first company to design a guitar specifically to be a hybrid. Contemporary advertising for the Prototype made much of the new design triple coil pickup (sometimes wrongly nicknamed the Motherbucker) but this was in fact nothing more than a DiMarzio PAF (nearest the bridge) in the same mounting ring as a single-coil, again by DiMarzio. The three way switch gave you the Humbucker, both pickups or the single coil, although curiously the switch worked in opposite orientation to the pickup positions. A master volume and master tone control completed the electronics. The sounds available were described by Paul Hamer in an interview from 1982.