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neastguy
04-29-2005, 06:45 AM
what do they sound like? never played a P90 equipped guitar........ thanks..
Taller
04-29-2005, 06:59 AM
If you can catch Green Day on VH-1's 'Storytellers', you'll hear Billie Joe playing an old LP Jr. and the tones are sweeeeet!
neastguy
04-29-2005, 07:03 AM
can you split a p90 like a humbucker?
dookie
04-29-2005, 07:25 AM
P90's are single coil pickups... They're just big single coil pickups...
neastguy
04-29-2005, 07:27 AM
can you get a quack out of em?
shallbe
04-29-2005, 07:42 AM
The best quack ever, IMO, but you need a 3 P-90 guitar. I have a Tom Anderson that I put 3 Harmonic Design P-90's in and it just sounds so much better than my strat for the in-between tones.

As a discalimer, I MUCH prefer P-90's to traditional Fender single coils. In fact, I prefer to use them live anytime single coil noise is not an issue. A good P-90 has the best of the single coil sound and the humbucker sound mixed together with a little added midrange magic. A bad P-90 just sounds like a noisy humbucker (Duncan Custom and Hot Soapbar are not good pickups, IMO).

Harmonic Design and Lollar make some great P-90s, and the Gibsons are very good as well.
Neill
04-29-2005, 07:47 AM
not like strat quack.

maybe checkout seymour duncan's website for clips.
neastguy
04-29-2005, 07:48 AM
I saw a ebmm axis sport with two p90 in it and was wondering if it would do a strat quack, looks like I'm still leaning toward a silo spec....
shallbe
04-29-2005, 07:55 AM
Originally posted by neastguy
I saw a ebmm axis sport with two p90 in it and was wondering if it would do a strat quack, looks like I'm still leaning toward a silo spec....

No 2 pickup guitar will quack, unless they are close to each other like the bridge and middle on a Strat. I've never heard a 2 pickup Tele quack...........
neastguy
04-29-2005, 07:58 AM
Originally posted by shallbe
No 2 pickup guitar will quack, unless they are close to each other like the bridge and middle on a Strat. I've never heard a 2 pickup Tele quack...........

thanks for the tip...thats good to know........yet again looks like I'm leaning towards the silo spec
Two-Octave
04-29-2005, 08:01 AM
For P90 pickups I highly recommend Mr. Wolfe MacLeod.He's stellar.

wolfetone.com