As a Strat user, big or fat Strat is perhaps the best way to look at it.HK-47 said:thanks for the responses! the clip above sounds like a "big" strat to me, which for me is a good thing. hmm... looks like i really need to try a P90 guitar one of these days...
Man, that Baker I got from you is fat, like 3 pounds of bacon sizzling.Dave Orban said:P90s have a certain note-by-note clarity to them -- call it single-coil zing -- that I don't typically find in humbuckers. They usually have a bit of edge-y grind to them when they're full-up, but clean-up extremely nicely when you roll-back the volume a bit. To me they bridge the best of a Fender-style single coil with the best of a PAF-style humbucker, and are very responsive to pick attack.
That said, I've owned many P90 guitars -- both vintage and new -- over the last couple of years, and no two have sounded alike. While they all share similar characteristics, P90s -- especially vintage ones -- can vary quite a bit.
Fralins and Lollars are my favorite contemporary P90s. They are typically brighter and more hi-fi than their vintage counterparts. Duncan antiquities are usually a bit closer to the "vintage" P90 style, IMO...
P90s can be found on records by Grant Green, early Burrell, some early Benson. Of course, there's the Leslie West sound and the Pete Townsend/"Live at Leeds" sound, but I think that they are only the tip of the P90 iceberg, and that there's much more versatility in a good P90 than anyone would be able to infer from "Mississippi Queen"...
Glad you're still enjoying it, Gil...!GAT said:Man, that Baker I got from you is fat, like 3 pounds of bacon sizzling.
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