Hi there,
I have a Godin Core CT P90 that has Seymour Duncan SP90-1 on the neck. I really like combination of that neck pickup, chambered Gibson Les Paul style body, and carved top on that guitar. Especially since the body wood has the warmth of Mahogany. They use Spanish Cedar for body on this guitar which is a breed of Mahogany. Between the wood choice and the way the chambered body and Maple carved top are interacting, it has a warm tone but doesn't sound muddy at all. The tone is very clear and defined in the lower volume setting, without being overly spiky / too bright. P90 creates a nice complexity of the tone and with the hint of distortion at full volume, people may like it for older style rock or blues tones.
In my case, I am in the path of doing mellow tone jazz and although I know this guitar is not the usual choice for jazz, but since when the volume is dropped to 7 or 8, I can avoid that distorted edge and create a nice clean tone to the amp on its clean tone settings, I am almost there but I would like if I could get slightly more body to the tone.
Jazz players say I need to use Humbucker to achieve that extra body of tone. Since I really got used to that P90 tonal expression and transparency (almost acoustic like) on that guitar (that doesn't exist normally in Humbucker) I was wondering if I should change the SP90-1n to SP90 Stacked (https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup...=5da897e5282a7) and also mod the pots to have push pull to have parallel / series option. I like the noise cancelling setup on this pickup, and also the idea of having parallel and series scenarios with push-pull option. Not sure which one (parallel or series) gives sort of Humbucker tone but that way perhaps I can keep the original P90 tone that I like in some scenarios and make it sound more like Humbucker if I need that extra tone body. Also I like that in one of the Parallel vs. series scenario I can run it like underwound pickup and get cleaner tone. Not sure if that sort of Humbucker tone is going to be good enough shift from traditional P90 tone toward Humbucker tone or not. I don't want to invest and go through modification of the guitar and eventually I find it's not quite a Humbucker tone. Anyone knows about these P90 stack pickups? Are they as good as SP90-1n by means of warmth, expression, and complexity of character? Are they able to give me extra body but with either the same or even hopefully less potential for tone distortion so I can run them with almost full volume to the amp and achieve a nice loud full body clean tone for jazz like a Humbucker?
I appreciate your input.
Thanks a lot,
Arya44
I have a Godin Core CT P90 that has Seymour Duncan SP90-1 on the neck. I really like combination of that neck pickup, chambered Gibson Les Paul style body, and carved top on that guitar. Especially since the body wood has the warmth of Mahogany. They use Spanish Cedar for body on this guitar which is a breed of Mahogany. Between the wood choice and the way the chambered body and Maple carved top are interacting, it has a warm tone but doesn't sound muddy at all. The tone is very clear and defined in the lower volume setting, without being overly spiky / too bright. P90 creates a nice complexity of the tone and with the hint of distortion at full volume, people may like it for older style rock or blues tones.
In my case, I am in the path of doing mellow tone jazz and although I know this guitar is not the usual choice for jazz, but since when the volume is dropped to 7 or 8, I can avoid that distorted edge and create a nice clean tone to the amp on its clean tone settings, I am almost there but I would like if I could get slightly more body to the tone.
Jazz players say I need to use Humbucker to achieve that extra body of tone. Since I really got used to that P90 tonal expression and transparency (almost acoustic like) on that guitar (that doesn't exist normally in Humbucker) I was wondering if I should change the SP90-1n to SP90 Stacked (https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup...=5da897e5282a7) and also mod the pots to have push pull to have parallel / series option. I like the noise cancelling setup on this pickup, and also the idea of having parallel and series scenarios with push-pull option. Not sure which one (parallel or series) gives sort of Humbucker tone but that way perhaps I can keep the original P90 tone that I like in some scenarios and make it sound more like Humbucker if I need that extra tone body. Also I like that in one of the Parallel vs. series scenario I can run it like underwound pickup and get cleaner tone. Not sure if that sort of Humbucker tone is going to be good enough shift from traditional P90 tone toward Humbucker tone or not. I don't want to invest and go through modification of the guitar and eventually I find it's not quite a Humbucker tone. Anyone knows about these P90 stack pickups? Are they as good as SP90-1n by means of warmth, expression, and complexity of character? Are they able to give me extra body but with either the same or even hopefully less potential for tone distortion so I can run them with almost full volume to the amp and achieve a nice loud full body clean tone for jazz like a Humbucker?
I appreciate your input.
Thanks a lot,
Arya44
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