P90 tones of my dreams.....
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flemming
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andare
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I JUST finished watching this video and was thinking that I need a P90 in the neck. That tone is so fat without being too distorted. And Tom's subtleties are always amazing while still being powerful. What a player!
KindCanuck
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I have an LTD EC-1000 that I am selling because I love my Maybach Lester P90 so much. The Duncan pickups in the EC-1000 sounded muddy compared to this thing, even though I do love those pickups.
andare
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You mean Noballs ODR-1
The P90s in my ES-225 sound pretty amazing. They're quite low-wind but sound huge. Incredible definition but still have that howling midrange. Gibson knows how to make a great pickup. The P90s in my Casino are slightly hotter but still sound as clear as a bell. The bridge pickup has that classic P90 honk while the neck pickup sounds round and woody with the perfect amount of bite. The USA Casino is a killer guitar. I like it better than the R4 Les Paul I used to have.
MichaelW
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There's some that come close. The Lollar 50's wind neck pickup is one. But you can't discount the variances of how a particular pickup was wound on a particular day by a particular person at the Gibson factory back in 54-55. Did he/she have tuna for lunch? Did he/she burp loudly with fishy breath that caused a slight commotion with his/her neighbor winder and cause some slight loss of focus while winding and thus increase the "scatter" of the windings in a unique pattern? You also have to factor in the constituent parts, a very old dried out piece of wood adds its own magic. Then of course Uncle Larry's hands....
re: Filtertrons, they have a completely different sound to P90's and are unique, mojo laden in there own right. And YES they can sound fabulous in solidbody guitars. There's a scad of solid body Gretsch models.
szukalski
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Fish burps. Causing great tone since 1953..
Harry Klippton
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I have one too and it's probably my most fun guitar to play
PapaBear
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I don't know, sounds more like a ham and cheese on rye to me.
PapaBear
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I have a Firebird studio with P90's and it's definitely one of me favorites, and to think I was going to change them out for mini buckers until I played it!
xefned
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I'm glad we finally tied tone variance to the sandwich theory™. It's the most plausible explanation in the tone corners of the internet.
If we had workforce data on Reuben days vs. tunafish days, we'd have this nailed. I'm putting my money on the sourkraut.
Absent that, I'll try my luck with a Lollar 50s wind and try to become a better player.
(I also wanna try a Filtron pickup in something one day. I suspect some of those are better than others as well.)
