This video was just posted by BassTheWorld. Drop-in true humbucking pickups for Jazz basses. @Whying_Dutchman is going to love these! No hum when playing through just the neck or bridge pickup, or when the volumes with two pickups are different. Of course, they’re expensive, but they fix my biggest complaint with VVT Jazz basses.
“humbuckers” for Jazz are nothing new. There are two common types, one where there are two coils side by side, these are called linear humbuckers. Or one where there is a dummy coil one on top the other, this is called a stacked humbucker. Linear are the most common. Duncan, Fralin, Nordstrand, many people make them.
Rarely called humbuckers, just “hum cancelling”, which is the same thing.
Humbucker is a formerly trademarked term for a dual coil pickup. Hum cancelling can be many things.
Humbuckers have unique sound characteristics and calling things like a P pickup a humbucker is confusing and muddies the distinction (just like bad humbuckers can )
We are talking Jazz pickups here, and I have yet to see a noiseless Jazz pickup that is not a linear (Seymour Duncan Apollo) or stacked (Fender Noiseless) humbucker. There are other ways but I have only seen them in Soapbars (EMG 35J for example)
Hum doesn’t bother me because it goes away if I touch the string, otherwise it would. Cool for those whom it bothers, but of course, it’s not going to sound the same.