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humbucker-equipped guitars guitar tones

Songs whose original tone used a humbucker-equipped guitars. Don’t own one? GuitarToneAdapt re-creates the sound on the pickup type and rig you actually have.

Humbuckers are hotter and darker than single-coils — they cancel hum, push more output, and emphasise mids and lows. They drive an amp into distortion more easily and sound thicker. To match a humbucker record on a single-coil guitar you add gain and cut treble; the other way round you do the opposite. GuitarToneAdapt handles the swap automatically.

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Master of Puppets — Metallica Enter Sandman — Metallica Sweet Child O' Mine — Guns N' Roses My Own Summer (Shove It) — Deftones Creeping Death — Metallica Floods — Pantera Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love — Van Halen Unholy Confessions — Avenged Sevenfold Sweet Child O' Mine — Guns N' Roses Seek & Destroy — Metallica Cowboys from Hell — Pantera Everlong — Foo Fighters Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana One — Metallica Fade to Black — Metallica Aerials — System of a Down November Rain — Guns N' Roses Somewhere I Belong — LINKIN PARK Welcome To The Jungle — Guns N' Roses Basket Case — Green Day Floods — Pantera When I Come Around — Green Day Diamond Eyes — Deftones Money for Nothing — Dire Straits Nothing Else Matters — Metallica Toxicity — System of a Down Beat It — Michael Jackson Holy Diver — Dio Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd Ride the Lightning — Metallica Dead! — My Chemical Romance Animal I Have Become — Three Days Grace Dammit — blink-182 Symphony of Destruction — Megadeth Walk — Pantera Supersonic — Oasis Head in the Ceiling Fan — Title Fight Mr. Crowley — Ozzy Osbourne Sunami Style — Sunami Dear Maria, Count Me In — All Time Low Entombed — Deftones Man in TheBox — Alice in Chains Bound for the Floor — Local H In Dying Days — As Blood Runs Black Parisienne Walkways — Gary Moore Where Am I? — Title Fight Push — Matchbox Twenty Digital Bath — Deftones Planet Caravan — Pantera Breed — Nirvana Still Loving You — Scorpions Clairvoyant Disease — Avenged Sevenfold Duality — Slipknot Epidemic of Hate — Dying Fetus Given Up — LINKIN PARK Today — The Smashing Pumpkins In My Darkest Hour — Megadeth Pour Some Sugar On Me — Def Leppard Tuesday's Gone — Lynyrd Skynyrd Passenger — Deftones All She Wrote (2024 Remaster) — FireHouse Repulsive In It's Splendid Beauty — Crowbar Minerva — Deftones Knockin' On Heaven's Door — Guns N' Roses Cemetery Gates — Pantera Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses) — Dying Fetus Dirty Little Secret — The All-American Rejects Sunshine of Your Love — Cream Hand Of Blood — Bullet for My Valentine 浄土独唱 — Isiliel Dirt — Alice in Chains Decadence Dance — EXTREME ความรักทำให้คนตาบอด (ซนซน 40 ปี GMM GRAMMY) — Three Man Down In My Dreams — Dokken ...And Justice for All — Metallica Second Heartbeat — Avenged Sevenfold Sleep Walk — Deftones In Too Deep — Sum 41 Women In Love... — Van Halen Numb — LINKIN PARK Inside Out — XYZ The Best of Times — Dream Theater Beauty and a Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) — Justin Bieber Down — 311 End of Beginning — Djo Stay Together for the Kids — blink-182 Hangar 18 — Megadeth Love, Hate, Love — Alice in Chains Lounge Act (Boombox Rehearsals) — Nirvana Sonne — Rammstein For Whom the Bell Tolls — Metallica Say It Ain't So (2024 Remaster) — Weezer Meatplow — Stone Temple Pilots Decapitation Fornication — Infant Annihilator Never forget — kessoku band the great southern trendkill — Pantera Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche' — Escape the Fate Step on Me — The Cardigans Clown — Korn Beast of Burden — The Rolling Stones Take Me Away (from Freaky Friday) — Lash When the Curtain Falls — Greta Van Fleet Do Ya Wanna Taste It — Wig Wam This Love — Pantera The Emptiness Machine (Instrumental) — LINKIN PARK No More Tears — Ozzy Osbourne Bulls On Parade (Live In Mexico City, MX, 10/28/99) — Rage Against the Machine Paradise City — Guns N' Roses Bleed It Out — LINKIN PARK The Devil In I — Slipknot Jessica — The Allman Brothers Band hail to the king — Avenged Sevenfold In the End — LINKIN PARK ...And Justice for All — Metallica Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks — Pantera Pull Me Under — Dream Theater Misery Business — Paramore Demolition Lovers — My Chemical Romance Waking the Demon — Bullet for My Valentine Midnight Rendezvous — Casiopea My Curse — Killswitch Engage Спокойная ночь — Kino Santa Monica — Everclear Flying Whales — Gojira Waterloo Sunset — The Kinks Peace Sells — Megadeth Thank You for the Venom (2025 Mix) — My Chemical Romance Lullaby of a Deadman — Kevin Sherwood, Corey Redgrift & Elena Siegman Flick of the Switch — AC/DC Ball and Biscuit — The White Stripes One More Song (Imposter Syndrome) — Heart Attack Man How Far Does A Goodbye Go — Jason Aldean Battery — Metallica With You — LINKIN PARK Sir This Is A Cutthroat Fashion — Her Words Kill Спокойная ночь — Kino Psychosocial (Live) — Slipknot Freezing Moon — Mayhem 115 (Remastered) — Kevin Sherwood & Elena Siegman Cambaz — mor ve ötesi Santa Monica — Everclear Safari Song — Greta Van Fleet Falling Away from Me — Korn Wherever I May Roam — Metallica I Stay Away — Alice in Chains The Well — Marcus King Drain You (Live At Del Mar Fairgrounds, CA., December 28, 1991) — Nirvana Coming Undone — Korn Cold — Crossfade Revenant — Loathe & NOWHERE2RUN Billie Jean — Michael Jackson Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back — My Chemical Romance Story to Tell — Death Gently — Slipknot Till It Shines — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Head in the Ceiling Fan — Title Fight Rape Me — Nirvana Highway Tune — Greta Van Fleet Everytime I Die — Children of Bodom Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — Marilyn Manson Outside — Staind No More Tears — Ozzy Osbourne Homicidal Retribution — Dying Fetus Kimdracula — Deftones Peace Sells — Megadeth Night Terror — Dream Theater Rooster — Alice in Chains In My Dreams — Dokken Epitaph — Necrophagist Cuntcrusher — Infant Annihilator Supersonic (Live at Wembley Stadium, July 2000) — Oasis Thank You for the Venom — My Chemical Romance Sign Of Life — Motionless in White I Won't See You Tonight, Pt. 1 — Avenged Sevenfold Sacred The Thread — Greta Van Fleet Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) — Don Felder Planet Caravan — Black Sabbath Спокойная ночь — Kino Famous Last Words — My Chemical Romance It's On! — Korn 27 — Title Fight Nutshell — Alice in Chains Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande Monkey Wrench — Foo Fighters Shattered By Broken Dreams — Avenged Sevenfold No More Tears — Ozzy Osbourne Bed of Roses — Bon Jovi The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster) — Iron Maiden Incinerate — Sonic Youth Hangar 18 — Megadeth Stand By Me — Oasis Do the Evolution — Pearl Jam Runaway — Bon Jovi Back for More — Ratt Waffle — Sevendust The Ultimate Sin — Ozzy Osbourne I Stay Away — Alice in Chains Unfamiliar — Currents First Date — blink-182 Semi-Charmed Life — Third Eye Blind Cosmik Debris — Frank Zappa The Blue — Acid Bath Who Was in My Room Last Night? — Butthole Surfers Welcome To The Jungle — Guns N' Roses (Anesthesia)—Pulling Teeth — Metallica We Die Young — Alice in Chains Welcome to the Family — Avenged Sevenfold Is This Love (2017 Remaster) — Whitesnake Got the Life — Korn Nude — Radiohead Talk Dirty to Me — Poison Suicide Messiah — Black Label Society Chop Suey! — System of a Down Island In the Sun — Weezer Altars of Apostasy — Heaven Pierce Her Dead Skin Mask — Slayer One Way (Live) — Hillsong Worship Some Might Say — Oasis The Grudge — TOOL One Step Closer — LINKIN PARK Papercut — LINKIN PARK She Loves You (Mono Version) — The Beatles Still of the Night — Whitesnake That Was Just Your Life — Metallica Singing! — Ho - Kago Tea Time Rust — Black Label Society YUKON (Live Grammy) — Lewis Hanton Dead Memories — Slipknot The Weight of Dreams — Greta Van Fleet Projection — Yoshimasa Terui (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Mono) — The Rolling Stones Dogs — Pink Floyd Times Like These — Foo Fighters Eruption — Van Halen The Four Horsemen — Metallica Heavy — Collective Soul Purnota — Warfaze Body Paint — Arctic Monkeys Battle-Axe — Deftones You Really Got Me — Van Halen Mr. Brownstone (Live) — Guns N' Roses Soulshine — Gov't Mule T.N.T. — AC/DC So Goes the Story — Eddie Hazel Like Light to the Flies — Trivium Heavy Fuel (Live Album Version) — Dire Straits Dancing Dead — Avenged Sevenfold Tyler — Toadies Cemetery Gates — Pantera dorisu karano tegami — deadman Hangar 18 (2004 Remix) — Megadeth November Rain — Guns N' Roses Atba'a Al-Namrood — Al-Namrood Gifted Every Strength — Loathe Blood Eagle — Periphery I Hope You're Unhappy — Farside Two Towers — Fit for An Autopsy Agora Hills — Doja Cat להיות אדם — Zohar Argov La Valse Du Temps — LANDMVRKS Taion — the GazettE Pens And Needles — Hawthorne Heights Going Down — Freddie King Achilles Last Stand (Remaster) — Led Zeppelin Evil Never Dies — Judas Priest She Sells Sanctuary — The Cult Fly By Night — Rush Bury Me With My Screams — Trivium Off the Heezay — A Trust Unclean Stay Together for the Kids — blink-182 Gone Away — Five Finger Death Punch Steady, As She Goes — The Raconteurs Dilerim Ki — Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut Home Sweet Home (Demo) — Mötley Crüe Honey Bucket — Melvins Blackest Eyes (Live) — Porcupine Tree Tom Sawyer (Live) — Rush Riverboat Fantasy — David Wilcox The Power in Belief — ICE NINE KILLS Blackest Eyes (Live) — Porcupine Tree Plaster 2 (Figure.09 Demo) — LINKIN PARK Cryoshock (feat. Mel Rose) — Mechina Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now — The Smiths A Dying Machine — Tremonti Scars — I Prevail Revolution Is My Name (Radio Edit) [2020 Remaster] — Pantera Blackest Eyes — Porcupine Tree Get Out Alive — Three Days Grace Forgotten — LINKIN PARK Your Treachery Will Die With You — Dying Fetus Enhjørning (Remastered 2015) — Dumdum Boys Too Much Time On My Hands — Styx Bound for Glory — Tedeschi Trucks Band Plump — Hole The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows — Brand New The Pretender — Foo Fighters Rock 'N' Roll Damnation — AC/DC Crawl — Kings of Leon Way Down We Go — KALEO The Summoning — Sleep Token The Death of Peace of Mind — Bad Omens Holy Roller — Spiritbox To the Hellfire — Lorna Shore Animals — Architects Just Pretend — Bad Omens Can You Feel My Heart — Bring Me the Horizon Playing God — Polyphia Chokehold — Sleep Token Suffocate — Knocked Loose Black Magic Woman — Santana Killing in the Name — Rage Against the Machine Laid to Rest — Lamb of God Vice Grip — Parkway Drive Blood and Thunder — Mastodon Granite — Sleep Token Mystery — Turnstile Thunderstruck — AC/DC Schism — TOOL Lateralus — TOOL Forty Six & 2 — TOOL The End of Heartache — Killswitch Engage Rose of Sharyn — Killswitch Engage Holy Diver — Killswitch Engage Still Into You — Paramore That's What You Get — Paramore Ain’t It Fun — Paramore Eternally Yours — Motionless in White Voices — Motionless in White Another Life — Motionless in White Sunshine of Your Love — Eric Clapton White Room — Eric Clapton Silvera — Gojira Stranded — Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage — Gojira Dr. Seuss Is Dead — Acid Bath Graveflower — Acid Bath Scream of the Butterfly — Acid Bath B.Y.O.B. — System of a Down Hypnotize — System of a Down Lonely Day — System of a Down Before I Forget — Slipknot Wait and Bleed — Slipknot Sulfur — Slipknot Plug In Baby — Muse Hysteria — Muse Knights of Cydonia — Muse No One Knows — Queens of the Stone Age Go With the Flow — Queens of the Stone Age Little Sister — Queens of the Stone Age Black Hole Sun — Soundgarden Spoonman — Soundgarden Outshined — Soundgarden Lonely Boy — The Black Keys Gold on the Ceiling — The Black Keys Tighten Up — The Black Keys Like a Stone — Audioslave Cochise — Audioslave Show Me How to Live — Audioslave Plush — Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song — Stone Temple Pilots Vasoline — Stone Temple Pilots Back in Black — AC/DC Highway to Hell — AC/DC Thunderstruck — AC/DC Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne Flying High Again — Ozzy Osbourne Whole Lotta Love — Led Zeppelin Black Dog — Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song — Led Zeppelin Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man — Lynyrd Skynyrd Walk This Way — Aerosmith Sweet Emotion — Aerosmith Dream On — Aerosmith La Grange — ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man — ZZ Top Gimme All Your Lovin' — ZZ Top Don't Look Back in Anger — Oasis Champagne Supernova — Oasis Eye of the Tiger — Survivor All Right Now — Free Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry I Love Rock 'n' Roll — Joan Jett Livin' on a Prayer — Bon Jovi Down with the Sickness — Disturbed Panama — Van Halen Hot for Teacher — Van Halen War Pigs — Black Sabbath Breaking the Law — Judas Priest Zombie — The Cranberries You Give Love a Bad Name — Bon Jovi It's My Life — Bon Jovi Kickstart My Heart — Mötley Crüe Dr. Feelgood — Mötley Crüe Still Got the Blues — Gary Moore Don't Stop Believin' — Journey Carry On Wayward Son — Kansas The Boys Are Back in Town — Thin Lizzy Ramblin' Man — The Allman Brothers Band Seishun Complex — Kessoku Band De Música Ligera — Soda Stereo Entre Dos Tierras — Héroes del Silencio Thrill — BAND-MAID What A Beautiful Name — Hillsong Worship El Diablo — Litfiba Antisocial — Trust Gimme Tha Power — Molotov Mary Janes Last Dance — Tom Petty Ulitsa Roz — Aria Igra s ognyom — Aria Fukagyaku Replace — MY FIRST STORY Cirice — Ghost Throne — Bring Me The Horizon Take Me to Church — Hozier Too Sweet — Hozier Blackout — Turnstile Distance — Mammoth WVH Bad Medicine — Bon Jovi Have a Nice Day — Bon Jovi Reelin in the Years — Steely Dan Tornado of Souls — Megadeth Surfing with the Alien — Joe Satriani For the Love of God — Steve Vai Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne Angel of Death — Slayer Scarified — Racer X Layla — Derek and the Dominos Master of Puppets — Metallica One — Metallica Since Ive Been Loving You — Led Zeppelin Cemetery Gates — Pantera Kid Charlemagne — Steely Dan Money for Nothing — Dire Straits Europa — Santana Crossroads — Cream More Than a Feeling — Boston Paradise City — Guns N Roses Mr. Crowley — Ozzy Osbourne Enter Sandman — Metallica Aqualung — Jethro Tull Rock You Like a Hurricane — Scorpions Back in Black — AC/DC Thunderstruck — AC/DC Whole Lotta Love — Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker — Led Zeppelin Walk This Way — Aerosmith Dream On — Aerosmith Carry On Wayward Son — Kansas La Grange — ZZ Top Barracuda — Heart Hallowed Be Thy Name — Iron Maiden Cevapsız Sorular — maNga Sil Baştan — Şebnem Ferah Anatolia — Pentagram Ben Böyleyim — Athena Limelight — Rush Africa — Toto Hold the Line — Toto Photograph — Def Leppard You Shook Me All Night Long — AC/DC Sharp Dressed Man — ZZ Top Whipping Post — The Allman Brothers Band Wanted Dead or Alive — Bon Jovi Livin on a Prayer — Bon Jovi Separate Ways — Journey Rosanna — Toto G.O.A.T. — Polyphia Handmade Cities — Plini A Voice Within — Intervals Concealing Fate Part 1 — TesseracT Scarlet — Periphery Stormy Monday — The Allman Brothers Band Rusty Cage — Soundgarden Would — Alice in Chains Them Bones — Alice in Chains Self Esteem — The Offspring Come Out and Play — The Offspring Fat Lip — Sum 41 Sugar Were Goin Down — Fall Out Boy Are You Gonna Be My Girl — Jet Four on Six — Wes Montgomery West Coast Blues — Wes Montgomery Breezin — George Benson Bright Size Life — Pat Metheny Autumn Leaves — Joe Pass Midnight Blue — Kenny Burrell So What — John McLaughlin Heathen Days — Rob Zombie Sepsis — Lamb of God Echo Sonata — ERRA Silent Divide — Alter Bridge Power Down — Alter Bridge Heavy Is the Crown — Linkin Park Caramel — Sleep Token Emergence — Sleep Token Soft Spine — Spiritbox Perfect Soul — Spiritbox Harper Lewis — Russian Circles Whole Lotta Rosie — AC/DC Sad but True — Metallica N.I.B. — Black Sabbath Dont Cry — Guns N Roses Crawling — Linkin Park Bulls on Parade — Rage Against the Machine Freak on a Leash — Korn Sober — Tool Bat Country — Avenged Sevenfold Krushers of the World — Kreator Cult of Personality — Living Colour Round and Round — Ratt Cum on Feel the Noize — Quiet Riot Jump — Van Halen Runnin with the Devil — Van Halen La Villa Strangiato — Rush Freewill — Rush Green Grass and High Tides — The Outlaws Born on the Bayou — Creedence Clearwater Revival Welcome to the Black Parade — My Chemical Romance Helena — My Chemical Romance Teenagers — My Chemical Romance I Write Sins Not Tragedies — Panic at the Disco High Hopes — Panic at the Disco Thnks fr th Mmrs — Fall Out Boy Centuries — Fall Out Boy Bring Me to Life — Evanescence My Immortal — Evanescence Learn to Fly — Foo Fighters My Hero — Foo Fighters Best of You — Foo Fighters Icky Thump — The White Stripes Figure It Out — Royal Blood Little Monster — Royal Blood Woman — Wolfmother Joker and the Thief — Wolfmother Supermassive Black Hole — Muse Time Is Running Out — Muse Loser — Beck My Own Worst Enemy — Lit At Dooms Gate — DOOM (Mick Gordon)BFG Division — DOOM (Mick Gordon)Rip and Tear — DOOM (Mick Gordon)Megalovania — Undertale (Toby Fox)One Winged Angel — Final Fantasy VII Open Your Heart — Crush 40 The Only Thing I Know for Real — Metal Gear Rising Cruel Angels Thesis — Neon Genesis Evangelion Guren no Yumiya — Linked Horizon Unravel — TK from Ling tosite sigure Guiles Theme — Street Fighter II Oye Como Va — Santana Samba Pa Ti — Santana Smooth — Santana Beautiful Lie — Evanescence R.I.P. — Motionless In White Satanized — Ghost Spirit Helper — Enslaved The Great Wolf In The Sky — Moonspell Delirium — Haken All Will Be (N)One — Distant De Oppresso Liber — Five Finger Death Punch Holy Wars... The Punishment Due — Megadeth Baba O Riley — The Who Wont Get Fooled Again — The Who Rock and Roll — Led Zeppelin Tom Sawyer — Rush Here I Go Again — Whitesnake Psychosocial — Slipknot Rebel Yell — Billy Idol Once Bitten Twice Shy — Great White Youth Gone Wild — Skid Row 18 and Life — Skid Row Children of the Grave — Black Sabbath Sweet Leaf — Black Sabbath Fairies Wear Boots — Black Sabbath Stricken — Disturbed Bodies — Drowning Pool Unsainted — Slipknot This Aint a Scene Its an Arms Race — Fall Out Boy Dear God — The Pretty Reckless Heaven Knows — The Pretty Reckless Sound of Madness — Shinedown Second Chance — Shinedown I Stand Alone — Godsmack Awake — Godsmack The Diary of Jane — Breaking Benjamin So Cold — Breaking Benjamin Fake It — Seether Remedy — Seether How You Remind Me — Nickelback Burn It to the Ground — Nickelback Still Counting — Volbeat Last Resort — Papa Roach The Red — Chevelle I Miss the Misery — Halestorm Love Bites (So Do I) — Halestorm Bright Lights — Gary Clark Jr Just Got Paid — Joe Bonamassa I Believe in a Thing Called Love — The Darkness Savior — Rise Against Monster — Skillet Writing on the Walls — Underoath Welcome Home — Coheed and Cambria Take My Bones Away — Baroness In Between — Beartooth In the End — Black Veil Brides Electric Man — Rival Sons Blame It on the Boom Boom — Black Stone Cherry The Artist in the Ambulance — Thrice Trenches — Pop Evil Could Have Been Me — The Struts Stitch — Wage War My Heroine — Silverstein Shes a Self Made Man — Larkin Poe Kickstart My Heart — Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood — Motley Crue Were Not Gonna Take It — Twisted Sister The Drapery Falls — Opeth Balls to the Wall — Accept Hammer Smashed Face — Cannibal Corpse Wheels of Steel — Saxon The Taste of Ink — The Used Through the Fire and Flames — DragonForce Nemo — Nightwish Twilight of the Thunder God — Amon Amarth Only for the Weak — In Flames Blinded by Fear — At the Gates Nemesis — Arch Enemy I Want Out — Helloween Nightfall — Blind Guardian Primo Victoria — Sabaton Ice Queen — Within Temptation Nothing Left — As I Lay Dying Composure — August Burns Red Fullmoon — Sonata Arctica This Is Exile — Whitechapel

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humbucker-equipped guitars — FAQ

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What songs used a humbucker-equipped guitars?

Master of Puppets by Metallica, Enter Sandman by Metallica, Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses, My Own Summer (Shove It) by Deftones, Creeping Death by Metallica, Floods by Pantera, Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love by Van Halen, Unholy Confessions by Avenged Sevenfold, and more.

636 songs · settings are community-researched estimates, adapted to your gear by GuitarToneAdapt.