Re: Epiphone P90 Pro pickups
Update:
So I installed a SD Antiquity Dogear P90 Neck Pickup and boy does it sound better. I also removed the tone control out of the circuit and now it is just there for show. Some of the excess noise I was getting from the stock pickup is gone. Maybe the stock pickup was noisy, maybe there was bad grounding or maybe there's another unknown. I don't know. But what I do know is that the new pickup sounds freaking awesome. I had to use some P90 spacers to raise the pickup due to the SD Antiquity being shorter than the stock. Since it's an archtop there is more space in the neck pickup position and the stock pickup was tall like a bridge dogear. The new pickups are also more articulate and open sounding. Much less muddy. I think I really don't like Epiphone pickups or at least the ones I've played. They're always a bit cloudy like my tone control is rolled back, which annoys the crap out of me since I don't use tone controls. I just have tone controls in my strat to bring the load down to 125k so it's not too bright. If I could find 125k volume pots I'd go that route for a single coil strat.
