Wiring help
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Gtrjunior
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Success!!! Thanks guys I really appreciate the help.
I guess these aren’t hum cancelling pups then?
Yesterday I shielded both pickup cavities with copper tape and it has helped but still some noise.
If you guys know how I can make these hum cancelling....I’m all soldering iron!!
Success!!! Thanks guys I really appreciate the help.
I guess these aren’t hum cancelling pups then?
Yesterday I shielded both pickup cavities with copper tape and it has helped but still some noise.
If you guys know how I can make these hum cancelling....I’m all soldering iron!!
Gtrjunior
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Lmao....I almost spit out my coffee! Haha!
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Lmao....I almost spit out my coffee! Haha!
BriGuy1968
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Blille
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BriGuy1968
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I love P-90s... great, fun-to-play pickups!
Really glad it worked out! [emoji1303]
I love P-90s... great, fun-to-play pickups!
Really glad it worked out! [emoji1303]
Blille
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The extra useless wires give it mojo... Lol
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The extra useless wires give it mojo... Lol
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Gtrjunior
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Blille
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Very nice. Is the middle position hum cancelling? My Gibson P90s are not.
And here she is:
Ignore the man cave mess. Lol
Very nice. Is the middle position hum cancelling? My Gibson P90s are not.
BriGuy1968
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Really? That sucks!
According to the specs, they’re supposed to be hum-canceling. Hell, even my Epi LP Special I P-90 is hum-canceling in the center.
Really? That sucks!
According to the specs, they’re supposed to be hum-canceling. Hell, even my Epi LP Special I P-90 is hum-canceling in the center.
Gtrjunior
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Seems to be, still some amp noise but the middle is noticeable less noisy.
Seems to be, still some amp noise but the middle is noticeable less noisy.
Blille
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Good to know!
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It does! I just have a set from an ES and it's a reissue so I guess they went all authentic on me. The other P90s I have are neck only.
Good to know!
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BriGuy1968
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Wiring help
Well you weren’t the only one... I was right there with you in thinking they were stacks but I couldn’t figure out why, if that was true, there would still be hum.
The guitar’s specs called them P-90s and said nothing about being noiseless, which seemed odd that they wouldn’t use it as a selling point. I looked at the specs of the pickups themselves and, while a little unclear, the said nothing about being noiseless, having 2 coils, etc. That was pretty much all I could figure out from the Gibson site. After that I did a Bing search about the pickups and came across a few references on other forums to people asking why their single coil P-90s had 5 wires, and finally got down to the truth.
Lol... you’re probably right there! [emoji23]
All I can say is that it’s a stupid, misleading move on Gibson’s part to put two completely unnecessary extra wires on their P-90s! What were they thinking... that nobody would ever want to do a pickup swap or ever have a need to understand the wiring? Ridiculous!!
Well you weren’t the only one... I was right there with you in thinking they were stacks but I couldn’t figure out why, if that was true, there would still be hum.
The guitar’s specs called them P-90s and said nothing about being noiseless, which seemed odd that they wouldn’t use it as a selling point. I looked at the specs of the pickups themselves and, while a little unclear, the said nothing about being noiseless, having 2 coils, etc. That was pretty much all I could figure out from the Gibson site. After that I did a Bing search about the pickups and came across a few references on other forums to people asking why their single coil P-90s had 5 wires, and finally got down to the truth.
Lol... you’re probably right there! [emoji23]
All I can say is that it’s a stupid, misleading move on Gibson’s part to put two completely unnecessary extra wires on their P-90s! What were they thinking... that nobody would ever want to do a pickup swap or ever have a need to understand the wiring? Ridiculous!!
allstarrme
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I have those same p90’s in an SG special, they use rod magnets instead of bar magnets underneath making them more like a jazzmaster than a p90. There is very little info on them out there, but they sound pretty good.
I have a different guitar I put Duncan P90 stacks in, with push pulls for series/parallel. I have heard great things to about Kinman P90’s that are humcancelling.
If you like those P90’s I would grab a Eh hum debugger or similar pedal and live with a little noise.
I have those same p90’s in an SG special, they use rod magnets instead of bar magnets underneath making them more like a jazzmaster than a p90. There is very little info on them out there, but they sound pretty good.
I have a different guitar I put Duncan P90 stacks in, with push pulls for series/parallel. I have heard great things to about Kinman P90’s that are humcancelling.
If you like those P90’s I would grab a Eh hum debugger or similar pedal and live with a little noise.
