I have a very beautiful and nice playing Epiphone Riviera (ES335 style) w/ 3 dog-ear P90s. The middle PUP is a challenge for me. Not tonally, physically!
I'm not a "barely touch the strings" speed demon. I tend to dig in my single notes and slam chords with some oomph and the pickup is literally in the way. Not all the time but often enough that I need to solve or sell. Since the folks who live online all seem to agree that the stock PUPs should be replaced anyway, I'm thinking of replacing the middle P90 with a flat dogear ring/adapter & then screwing down a mini-humbucker or TVJones filtertron extra deep, to be farther from the strings.
3 questions:
Randy
I'm not a "barely touch the strings" speed demon. I tend to dig in my single notes and slam chords with some oomph and the pickup is literally in the way. Not all the time but often enough that I need to solve or sell. Since the folks who live online all seem to agree that the stock PUPs should be replaced anyway, I'm thinking of replacing the middle P90 with a flat dogear ring/adapter & then screwing down a mini-humbucker or TVJones filtertron extra deep, to be farther from the strings.
3 questions:
- Is this feasible physically? Or will the semi-hollow's center block prevent me from recessing the new minHB to be extra low? (Can I lower it enough to make a useful difference?)
- Is this workable tonally? Or will the depth needed to liberate my power chords render the PUP useless? (Too far to be able to get anything close to the output of the other 2 PUPs)
- If answers to 1 & 2 are OK, recommendations? Keep P90s at bridge & neck, and only use mini in the middle? (Wasn't mini in the middle a sitcom?) Other combos?
Randy
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