Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

[Agileguy_101]

One of my favorite guitars is the old 70's Mighty Mite neck through strat (pic here) I acquired a while back. At the time, I only had two guitars, so it quickly became my main guitar, and I used it on almost all of the stuff that my last band did. But as I acquired more guitars, it's gotten less and less use, as my McCarty and CE24 do the same thing but better.

So I think it's time to give it a different role. I want to be able to get some strat-esque tones, but I want more meat from the bridge position. Which lead me to the idea of trying a P90 in the bridge along with normal neck and middle pickups.

Has anybody tried this pickup combo? What did you think? If I did go for these pickups, I'd get them custom wound. I'm thinking somewhere in the 8.5-9k range for the bridge, and maybe 7-8k for the neck and middle to keep up with the bridge.

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

I've never tried it, but I've found myself wondering the same thing. It seems like it would be the natural next step for a meatier bridge pup in a Strat.


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[SJ318]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

+1^ A Trem-90. Sounds very good. Never used one, I would be very curious.
SJ

 

[jake_xms3_punk]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

My main fender strat has a phat cat in the bridge (A5/A8)
after years of trying different humbuckers, I final found what I was looking for with the phat cat; beefed up strat-esqe tones that would match the 2 single coils in the same guitar AND match the output and general tone direction of my other guitars to minimise amp setting changes in live situations.

The notch position (p90 b and middle single coil together) is a great unique tone but not a million miles away from strat territory.

The other pickups I have are an ssl-1 neck and an aps1 in the middle which keep up and balance with the phat cat pretty well tone and volume wise (the phat cat is a hair louder, but not so much that it's annoyingly noticeable)

To sum up, Ye I love a p90 in the bridge of my strat!
Go for it I think you'll like it

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[Agileguy_101]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

Oh I'm definitely going for it, as I found a guy that will custom wind me the whole set for about a hundred bucks shipped. I can't pass on that kind of deal.

 

[Securb]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

I have a P-Rails in the bridge of my Strat. The P90 vibe works for a lot of stuff with that guitar. I love the way it kicks my little Excelsior, it also does a nice job with the Marshall.

 

[Snake Aces]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

Dude that seems awesome!

 

[RayBarbeeMusic]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

No but a neck through strat sounds like a great idea, if you ever want to sell it, shoot me a pm.

 

[vexed73]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

This very sttractive guy did earlier this year.
https://youtu.be/FwNCUorLosU

 

[Snake Aces]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

LOL, what? First post since 2007 is what?

 

[freefrog]

Re: Anybody ever tried a strat with a P90 in the bridge?

I've a Strat with a "swappable" bridge PU, currently housing a P90, and another "Strat like" axe with 2 P90 sized HB's + a regular P90 in mid position.

It sounds good BUT there's a couple of issues:

-position 2 sounds a bit dull;
-P90's remain extremely noisy in some situations.

If I had to fit my main Strats with P90's, I'd mount what I already have in a LP Jr style : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvP3soyUK9M

FOOTNOTE: whatever you decide and choose, there's a way to bring back the Strat brightness with P90's: mount 3 of 'em coupled to a crude 1n cap used as a treble bleed on the volume pot. Then lower your volume around 7/10. It will mimic the output level and sparkle of a regular Strat set in a rather efficient way (at least in positions 2 and 4)...

Good luck in your quest!