Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

[Charvel1975]

Hi everyone been a while since I've been on the forums :wave: I was reading around about the Les Paul Specials with P100's and from what I've read seems the bridge and neck pickups are calibrated - Bridge 10.3k, Neck 6.7k. On mine, I only swapped out the bridge pickup with a Dimarzio P90 super distortion which has a ceramic mag and 13.50k but how would a Seymour Duncan vintage SP90-1 for the bridge sound instead of the Dimarzio?

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

The DiMarzio will make the meaty Rock guitar sounds that you expect but these may not suit the natural acoustic sound of the guitar.

I have the same LP Junior Special model as you. I tried the SD JB90 pickup in mine but was never entirely happy with the results. IMO, an SP90-1b will sound clear and bright but slightly underpowered.

The idea that I stole from the PRS McCarty Soapbar model was to use an SP90-3n as the bridge/Treble pickup. This balances nicely with either and SP90-1n or Antiquity in the neck/Rhythm position.

 

[Charvel1975]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

The DiMarzio will make the meaty Rock guitar sounds that you expect but these may not suit the natural acoustic sound of the guitar.

I have the same LP Junior Special model as you. I tried the SD JB90 pickup in mine but was never entirely happy with the results. IMO, an SP90-1b will sound clear and bright but slightly underpowered.

The idea that I stole from the PRS McCarty Soapbar model was to use an SP90-3n as the bridge/Treble pickup. This balances nicely with either and SP90-1n or Antiquity in the neck/Rhythm position.

So the SP90-1b would sound underpowered even with my Mesa Tremoverb & Peavey 6505+ heads? I was also looking at the Hot SP90-2 for the bridge but know it uses ceramic mags like the Dimarzio and is hotter at 14.9k. I got my LP Special in half step E tuning right now with 10-46 strings and have been lately playing classic/hard rock/80's metal but I might try tuning it to open G tuning to learn brown sugar by the rolling stones cause I have a classic rock to modern country band I might audition for.

 

[Charvel1975]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

Also, I had all the pots changed from the factory 300k to Gibson 500k some time ago too but I still have the 300k pots

 

[Aceman]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

I am inspired to make a video tomorrow….

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

Plebeian P-90 pron, huh?

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

If you're wanting to play Stones in open G, I'd recommend staying with a more vintage output P-90 like the SP90-1 set.

It's also nice and convenient to have one guitar dedicated for this tuning (a Tele with P-90s tuned to open G would work nicely). It's a real pain to continually be tuning back and forth.

 

[TruSlice]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

For what it's worth, the SP90s do not feel weak at all and are highly underated for a P90 pup.

I feel more involvement with my instrument that has p90s than my Les Paul with humbuckers

 

[blueman335]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

I use neck P-90's with bridge HB's, and I think it work's out well. You get a neck with more high end and clarity and a bridge with more mids.

 

[Charvel1975]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

Hi everyone been a while since I've been on the forums :wave: I was reading around about the Les Paul Specials with P100's and from what I've read seems the bridge and neck pickups are calibrated - Bridge 10.3k, Neck 6.7k. On mine, I only swapped out the bridge pickup with a Dimarzio P90 super distortion which has a ceramic mag and 13.50k but how would a Seymour Duncan vintage SP90-1 for the bridge sound instead of the Dimarzio?

Hey guys, I think I'm going to have the Dimarzio P90 super distortion in the bridge swapped out with a Seymour Duncan SP90-1 bridge and leave the stock Gibson P100 in the neck or just get the SEYMOUR DUNCAN Vintage Soapbar P-90 Pickup Set BLACK covers SP90-1b & SP90-1n. Any Gibson Les Paul Special owners here that have swapped out their Gibson P100's for the Duncan Vintage P90's and what are your guy's experiences with the Seymour Duncan Vintage P90's? Thanks!!

 

[Charvel1975]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

I just saw on another forum that the Duncan SP90-1 works good as a replacement since the base of them is a little deeper than most P-90's and you don't need to pack foam or get bigger springs to put under it?

 

[Mincer]

Re: Seymour Duncan Vintage SP90-1 Questions

I've never compared the sizes directly, but I have replaced the P100s with SP90-1 before. You get a much clearer sound, like gauze has been lifted from the speaker cone. It is a seriously worthy upgrade.