With everyone and their grandmother getting their hands on Leo Fender’s magnum opus, the Stratocaster, players we’re experiencing a nasty occurrence of what is commonly known in guitar spaces as the 60 cycle hum causing amplifiers to feedback and emit an ear-splitting whistle, and they wanted to get rid of it fast. And so, out of a small guitar factory in Kalamazoo Michigan (that factory being ground zero for Gibson Guitars), an electronics engineer by the name of Seth Lover came up with the dawn of the double coil or more commonly known as the Gibson P.A.F. (Patent Applied For (for who though?)) humbucker, which is found in the very first series of Les Pauls, ES-335’s and other models from 54 all the way to modern day. From BB King’s unmistakable clean chime. Slash’s unmistakably raunchy yet crisp clear riffs on Paradise City and Rocket Queen. The emotional, smooth, weeping leads of Gary Moore on classics such as Still Got The Blues and Parisienne Walkways. Or the loud super hot metal sound of James Hetfield’s EMG 81 pickup on records such as …and Justice for All and The Black Album. The list is endless with an array of sounds, tastes, and many other bells and whistles that may tickle your fancy.