The Big 5: Atreyu's Dan Jacobs & Travis Miguel

Before the humbucker, before active electronics, before any of the boutique winding methods players argue about online, there was a coil of wire wrapped around a magnet. That simple design is still one of the most widely used pickup formats in the world. In this episode of Pickups Demystified, PG contributor ‪@TomButwin‬ traces single coils to their origins in the early 1930s and works through four formats that define the category today.