Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Installed these amazing hum cancelling p90s in my buddie's 1959 Gibson L5 a month or two back.
At some stage in this beautiful guitar's life it had been retrofitted with humbuckers. When jj he got the axe he replaced them with some hum cancelling p90s from lindy fralin. For some unknown reason these had ceramic magnets and the bridge was underwound compared to the neck. No surprise that they did not deliver the sounds he was after.
He's been a gretsch player for years and told me he likes the clear sparkle of the filtertrons and that in a perfect world his p90's would be clear and airy, but also humcancelling.
I told him to call the SD custom shop and ask for MJ and tell her he wanted . This recipe hopefully would give plenty of clarity, but also some low end punch to give a kind of cross between an electric and an acoustic tone. She said no problems of course and set to work. We were both amazed to see the DC ratings written on the box! huge! It just goes to show that there is a lot more to tone than DC ratings.
These things deliver the goods in a big way and a month or two down the track and a bunch of gigs under his belt, he could not be happier with the results. So i thought I would share and give a big shout out to MJ and her amazing work.
(wish i'd taken pics of the installation process and the difference in contruction with the pickups they replaced - these pickups are truly works of art)
http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l558/gibson175/DSC_0641_zps0c32e5d6.jpg
At some stage in this beautiful guitar's life it had been retrofitted with humbuckers. When jj he got the axe he replaced them with some hum cancelling p90s from lindy fralin. For some unknown reason these had ceramic magnets and the bridge was underwound compared to the neck. No surprise that they did not deliver the sounds he was after.
He's been a gretsch player for years and told me he likes the clear sparkle of the filtertrons and that in a perfect world his p90's would be clear and airy, but also humcancelling.
I told him to call the SD custom shop and ask for MJ and tell her he wanted . This recipe hopefully would give plenty of clarity, but also some low end punch to give a kind of cross between an electric and an acoustic tone. She said no problems of course and set to work. We were both amazed to see the DC ratings written on the box! huge! It just goes to show that there is a lot more to tone than DC ratings.
These things deliver the goods in a big way and a month or two down the track and a bunch of gigs under his belt, he could not be happier with the results. So i thought I would share and give a big shout out to MJ and her amazing work.
(wish i'd taken pics of the installation process and the difference in contruction with the pickups they replaced - these pickups are truly works of art)
http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l558/gibson175/DSC_0641_zps0c32e5d6.jpg
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