P90's
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Lewguitar
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Re: P90's
P90's are single coils and IMO tend to have more upper harmonics than most humbuckers. When it comes to pinch harmonics, Billy Gibbons style, it seems easier for me to get them with a bridge humbucker though because the HB pushes the amp into an overdriven tone more easily and the overdriven tone makes pinch harmonics a little easier to get. Lew
P90's are single coils and IMO tend to have more upper harmonics than most humbuckers. When it comes to pinch harmonics, Billy Gibbons style, it seems easier for me to get them with a bridge humbucker though because the HB pushes the amp into an overdriven tone more easily and the overdriven tone makes pinch harmonics a little easier to get. Lew
the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
Re: P90's
Lew...I have wondered this for a while. You are all about old guitars and amps...do you have anything with P-90's?
Lew...I have wondered this for a while. You are all about old guitars and amps...do you have anything with P-90's?
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Lewguitar
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Re: P90's
No. My first Les Paul was a real 56 with P90's, I owned alot of Les Paul Jrs in the late 60's and early 70's and I had a really sweet '96 Hamer Gold Top that I put a set of handwound Lindy Fralin P90's in. Sounded great but I'm not really a P90 kind of guy and I sold it. They're not quite hot enough to drive an amp the way a humbucker does for Clapton's Cream Tone, Jeff Beck's Truth tone or BB Kings tone and not quite Stratty enough to give me the Strat or Tele tones I hear in my head. I guess that's it: I just don't hear that P90 tone in my head or have any fantasy's about that tone. Although I did love the way Leslie West used to sound playing P90's with Mountain. Freddie King also got a cool tone with P90's when he played his mid 50's Gold Top Les Paul. But generally, I like Strats & Teles with vintage type pickups and Gibsons or Hamers with vintage type HB's. P90's are right in between the two and just not my thing.
the guy who invented fire said:
No. My first Les Paul was a real 56 with P90's, I owned alot of Les Paul Jrs in the late 60's and early 70's and I had a really sweet '96 Hamer Gold Top that I put a set of handwound Lindy Fralin P90's in. Sounded great but I'm not really a P90 kind of guy and I sold it. They're not quite hot enough to drive an amp the way a humbucker does for Clapton's Cream Tone, Jeff Beck's Truth tone or BB Kings tone and not quite Stratty enough to give me the Strat or Tele tones I hear in my head. I guess that's it: I just don't hear that P90 tone in my head or have any fantasy's about that tone. Although I did love the way Leslie West used to sound playing P90's with Mountain. Freddie King also got a cool tone with P90's when he played his mid 50's Gold Top Les Paul. But generally, I like Strats & Teles with vintage type pickups and Gibsons or Hamers with vintage type HB's. P90's are right in between the two and just not my thing.
JOLLY
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Re: P90's
I've never had a problem getting them with my SG Junior:
http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/VirtualStudios/Listen/detail.php?eltid=29457
Colma said:
I've never had a problem getting them with my SG Junior:
http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/VirtualStudios/Listen/detail.php?eltid=29457
