Mini-humbucker

The mini-humbucker resembles a Gibson PAF humbucker, but is narrower in size and senses a shorter length of string vibration.

A slightly different variation of the mini-humbuckers was used on Gibson Firebird guitars, thus giving them a very distinctive tone.

In the 1970s, mini-humbuckers replaced Gibson's original P-90 single-coil pickups on several of Gibson's budget guitar models, as well as the Les Paul Deluxe: the size and shape meant that it could fit very comfortably into the space occupied by the P-90, so no extra routing was required in the solid body guitars.

Only select re-issue Gibson models are still made with Mini-humbuckers, as they are less popular than standard humbuckers.

As of 2018, EMG,[4] Seymour Duncan,[5] DiMarzio, GFS, Dragonfire, and Jason Lollar all make mini-humbuckers.