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Humbucker sized P-90 pickups


Noisyjon
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Right, sorry for the delay. Soundcloud wouldn't let me upload a track, saying I needed to confirm my email when I already did. It's now working.

Hope it works this time.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/garethflatlands/rebel-rider-p90"]https://soundcloud.c...rebel-rider-p90[/url]

Edit:- sorry for the tuning issues. I think the neck is a little warped.

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[quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1391355864' post='2356107']
Right, sorry for the delay. Soundcloud wouldn't let me upload a track, saying I needed to confirm my email when I already did. It's now working.

Hope it works this time.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/garethflatlands/rebel-rider-p90"]https://soundcloud.c...rebel-rider-p90[/url]

Edit:- sorry for the tuning issues. I think the neck is a little warped.
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Thanks for that Gareth and nice sounds!

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[quote name='Ancient Mariner' timestamp='1391172255' post='2354052']
A little late, but can I recommend [url="http://bg-pups.com/pure90/pure90/"]BG pickups Pure 90s[/url]. Bryan has a great reputation on Harmony Central among builders, modders and players.
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Thanks for the link AM.

I had a look at this site and what I found interesting is where he mentions about using plastic covers.
Now, I know some guitars had/have P-90s with chrome covers but when I thought about it the sound I'm shooting for is that plastic covered vintage P90 sound.

So with that in mind this pickup ticks all the boxes for me and at a reasonable price from a UK supplier:
[url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/p90-pickup-humb-retrofit-black-plastic-1163-p.asp"]http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/p90-pickup-humb-retrofit-black-plastic-1163-p.asp[/url]

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[quote name='OldG' timestamp='1391412600' post='2356719']
Cheers Gareth, sounds good... were you using neck, bridge or both on the clip there?
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Just the bridge P90, the neck is an unknown make regular tele style pickup and I'm having some phasing issues with both pickups at once so I just ignored it for the clip.

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[quote name='Noisyjon' timestamp='1391418414' post='2356782']
Thanks for the link AM.

I had a look at this site and what I found interesting is where he mentions about using plastic covers.
Now, I know some guitars had/have P-90s with chrome covers but when I thought about it the sound I'm shooting for is that plastic covered vintage P90 sound.

So with that in mind this pickup ticks all the boxes for me and at a reasonable price from a UK supplier:
[url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/p90-pickup-humb-retrofit-black-plastic-1163-p.asp"]http://www.wdmusic.c...stic-1163-p.asp[/url]
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You're welcome. The one thing I'd say is that for the price of that generic Korean made pickup, you could have a hand-wound model from a boutique builder.

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So, manufacturing location aside this pickup sounds absolutely fantastic and does what it should so I can only recommend the Kent Armstrong WPU900BP Humbucker size P90 with a back plastic cover.

I bought mine from WD Music who are the exclusive dealer and they had the unit in stock and ready to go. Can't be bad!






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[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1392055726' post='2364159']
Happy news. I shall bear this in mind when next shopping for a P90. :)
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Thanks Skank!

And the advice I gleaned on the net somewhere about getting the pickup height of P-90s right is no joke.
Literally a single mm too low makes the world of difference :lol:

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[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1392814061' post='2372978']
I wonder what a strat loaded with P90's would sound like?
[/quote]Fat! PRS did a triple P90 loaded guitar and Vintage/Fret King do one each too I think.

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Ok,clip sorted.. linkage > [url="https://soundcloud.com/mick-hastings/p90-pickup-demo"]https://soundcloud.c...p90-pickup-demo[/url]

The sloppy pentatonic wibble is the neck p/u - the rhythm power chords are the bridge... backing track kindly supplied here > [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/dw1664?feature=watch"]http://www.youtube.c...4?feature=watch[/url]

The guitar is made from a budget Tanglewood strat body,cheapie Wesley maple neck,GFS pickups/upgrade electrics and Wikinson hardware.

Soundwise - very stratty still,but louder,fatter and a bit darker with an extra sting that responds to pick dynamics - I get a lot of fun from it. :D

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Just spotted this thread. In the last week I put a pair of Warman HBP90 into my Epiphone Phant-o-matic, following a long and unfruitful wait for some Gibson P94s to arrive on eBay. They cost just £25.00 for the pair - I just figured if they were rubbish, I'd just recycle them here. That said, they sound a-fecking-mazing...genuinely shocked at how good the tone is and my chosen finish (chrome surround, black case) looks suitably bling. Gone is the mushy/squeally output from the stock Epi humbuckers; from a clarity perspective, it's kind of halfway between a traditional Stratocaster pickup and a humbucker. (Which I suppose sums up what a P90 is anyway.) Lovely!
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http://warmanguitars.co.uk/store/hybrids-and-hot-rails/14-warman-hbp90.html

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