P-90s

eSGEe said:
Bare Knuckles makes some VERY good P90s-- they can be tame as a church mouse at low volumes and on a clean channel--- but pour the volume and the dirt to em.......oh my .......thick ball busting rip snorting ----TONE
example.........in a Gibbo Jr (FYI these are "dog ears" ) --- and this dude lives in his Moms basement obviously........


and another version--check out this MOFOs pup swappin idea.........hows that for ADJUSTABLE!!?!?!?!?

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Thank you !!
 
gball said:
A friend pulled the humbucker out of a Reverend Double Agent and replaced it with a Phat Cat, so I have played a guitar that has a PC and a "real" P-90 in the same instrument, and it is pretty much impossible to tell the difference.
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Nice!

And then, of course, there are P90s and there are P90s. They don't all sound exactly the same. My experience with P90s is rather limited, but I dig the Tyson Tone Wraptail 60 in my Les Paul Junior.
 
gball said:
A friend pulled the humbucker out of a Reverend Double Agent and replaced it with a Phat Cat, so I have played a guitar that has a PC and a "real" P-90 in the same instrument, and it is pretty much impossible to tell the difference.
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I haed a PRS Santana I put a Phat cat in the neck -- the guy who bought STILL RAVES about it .......
I have had the Mean 90 as well as the Surf 90 from GFS -- excellent pups
 
texred said:
Are the single coils used in P93s and P94s the same as the one in P90? Anybody that has a P90 and a P93, tell me about the sound? I live in BFE, so I can't just pop in to a store !! Which do prefer and why??
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Well that was an ignorant question. Sorry. Going to learn what exactly is in a P90. All I know is I love mine on Epi LP.
 
Kerry Brown said:
I agree with the other posts. I believe the P93 is a GIbson/Epiphone Riviera equipped with three P90 pickups. The P94 is a humbucker sized P90. I have never played a P94 but I have played a couple of different humbucker sized P90s. They didn't sound exactly like other P90s I'd played but they were definitely not humbuckers. Almost every P90 I've played sounded different in any case so It's pretty hard to compare them but they all shared a few traits. They all had some growl when cranked right up but cleaned up when you back off the guitar volume. Some had more growl than others. They all had some hum and were susceptible to position in relation to the amp. You didn't want to move around the stage a lot when the amp was cranked. I have played an Epiphone Riviera P93 and they were standard Epiphone dog ear P90s.
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Thanks. I actually understand !!
 
P-90 - Wikipedia

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Whats inside?

is magic :)
 
In a word.

MOJO -----


yes your on the right track Single coils make warm "woman" sounds Humbuckers SCREAM ....active humbuckers are NUCLEAR DEATH PUNCHES....P90's make the MOJO
 
jtcnj said:
If there are P93 pickups, thats not the common P90 vs humbucker sized P90.
By definition from Gibson - the P94 is a single coil similar to a P90 but in a humbucker sized package.
A P90 is slightly longer and narrower than a Humbucker; they wont fit in the same pickup route / cutout in the guitar.

A dog ear P90 is surface mounted and not easily adjustable for height; it has little brackets on the ends but can be shimmed.
A soapbar P90 is just the rectangular pickup and cover with screws that pass through it (small holes between A -D and G-B strings) allowing for easy height adjustment.

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You want a good "P90 sound" sample?
The Who, Live at Leeds is considered a choice specimen.

Love that record.
I dig P90s too, (and single coils and humbuckers, others too).
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This is simplistic in the sounds, but it shows the guts and explains all if you don't blink. And there's a blacker than black guitar.
 
WavMixer said:
I was just looking at the stable picture above. Two of these lived with eESGe and two lived with Sp8ctre before moving in with me. It's a good thing that I own a few other guitars so my stable doesn't look like a refugee camp for mis-guided guitars.
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LOL !! We have the redneck version here: everybody swaps trucks every couple years. "Didn't that used to be Bubba's truck?"
 
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