I wish strats came loaded with 3 P-90s. Then the world would be a more rockin' place. There's nothing like P-90s, and more and more players are discovering that.
@@angusorvid8840 Do what I did. I recently bought a budget Strat and all parts needed and made a 2 P90 Strat that I always wanted. It's one of a kind and unique because it's lefty.
Thanks! I see so many videos where the gain is maxed... This is clean... Straight into a clean amp. From your video, I actually know what this guitar sounds like.
I saw Little Charlie Baty with a 3 p90 Telecaster, so I thought I'd search if anyone played a 3 p90 Strat, and here you are playing exactly the style I love. Than you sooo much for this, its the absolute perfect demo for the sound I was thinking!
I have a budget Squier Strat that I have upgraded to a real player. I have to move to the p90's after that incredible tone and you are my new favorite guitarist. Great playing style. The Best !!! Thanks!
quite interesting and beautifull sounding configuration, I've got a Jaguar style 3xP90 low budget guitar, 5-way switch, which is a good experiment in terms sounds possibilities, what seems to me is that on an original strato bench that peculiar sound quality is even more extended
Nice video! I already knew these, of course, but the two things this video does such a good job of demonstrating for us is: a) what a fantastic "baby bear's bed" the P90 is to the "papa bear's bed" of humbucker, and the "mama bear's bed" of fender-style single coils (and what a chameleon they are as well)! b) how pickups are only part of any guitar's sound story; a big part, no doubt - one of the top three biggest parts, most likely....but certainly not at all the "end all and be all". I know that regardless of the context, a P90 will always land somewhere along a spectrum in-between, say a PAF Les Paul and a standard Strat SSS, just because of the way they're designed. They'll always be hotter, warmer, thicker, richer, and barkier than a standard Strat pickup, and always more expressive, and nuanced, and dynamic, and more dazzling, and spankier than a full humbucker. But what guitar you put them into will make a huge difference on exactly where along that spectrum they land. In contexts like a P90 Les Paul, or SG, or 335, or jazz hollow body - you know, anything with a 24.75 (or similar) scale, with [usually or primarily] mahogany bodies, set neck, and a tunematic-style bridge, they sound decidedly "PAF of center" to me, whereas in a strat, they not only sound decidedly "Strat of center", but they even sound way more strat-like than I was expecting! In fact, had you told me you were playing a strat, and let me hear without letting me see or telling me about the P90s [edit: original draft had mistakenly said "Humbucker" here] I'm not even positive I would've correctly identified the mod that's how "strat" this sounds! Given the complexities of guitar tone being so much more than just the pickups, this is true to some degree of any pickup in any guitar. A Strat HH (or an Ibanez RG) will sound like a compromise between Strat and Paul sounds, as do the videos I've seen of people modding Les Pauls with standard Strat pickups will sound like a compromise in the opposite direction. But neither the Strat HH / Ibanez RG or the [we'll just call it] "Les SSS" transform and adapt nearly as much as the P90 guitars do. Insofar as we can separate "pickup sound" from what I'll call "body sound" (literally everything else except pickups), these guitars sound way more pickup, where the P90 examples sound way more "body". Because the P90 is so much more of a chameleon than either of the extremes. To a certain extent, and in a certain manner of speaking, the extremes are less impacted by their surroundings, and bulldog their own personalities into whatever context they find themselves, where the P90s are much more accommodating and adaptive and compliant to their surroundings! And this is why if you held a gun to my head and said "name your favorite pickup design", or alternately "you can have 100 guitars, but they all have to use the same kind of pickup", I'd probably have to say P90. :-) Again, great video! Sorry I rambled on so long! :-)
@@greg6509 Thank you! And I apologize for the confusion: I actually did know that P90s were single coils, but re-reading my original comment just now, I can definitely see where I gave the impression that I didn't. It was likely where I said "but if you hadn't told me about the Humbuckers" in the context of "I might not have even noticed that this strat was modded". I had actually meant to say P90s there, but had what I suppose we could call the guitar pickup equivalent of a "Freudian Slip". 🤣🍻 No, the subtle tell that I actually did know about the P90's being single-coil was in the very early parts of the comment where I said "Fender-style single coils" as if I was making a distinction between single coil styles. 😉 I was actually just thinking about this video again the other day, and how I'd love to get a Harley Benton Strat and mod it, or else, get one of those Rondo SX guitars with 3 P90's, upgrade the pickups, and reverse the wiring on the middle pickup so that you could have those spanky Strat-like "2 and 4 tones" 🙂 Thanks for the reply, and again, my fault on the confusion! I'll probably go back and edit the original comment after this to clear that up! 🙂 Cheers!
Sounds great , I have a Trevor Wilkinson designed Strat with his 3 stacked p90'S it's the Vintage Reissued Custom Spec V6PFCB Flamed Cherry Burst with a vibrato trem system some people are purist but three P90's takes the Strat to a different universe
The clean intro reminds me of the brick in the wall pink Floyd sound. It's rumoured he used p90s, on a gibson guitar I assume, for at least one of his most well known solos. He also used or uses Hiwatt.
It's been on my partscaster build list for a couple of years. Being a lefty, I'm used to having to mod or build if I want something a little different than a plain stock model. The idea always seemed rad. I wondered why it wasn't explored.
I was wondering, are you using 500k pots? I'm fixing to mod a Squier SE with three P90's. Only difference is I want to use a three way for the neck and bridge, universal volume and tone, then a three position toggle in the bottom tone space. Up, by itself through the volume and tone, middle off, down to mix in with any position with the three way. Great tone and playing.
I’m thinking about a similar build . What did you select for picks between neck and bridge considering most p90 sets are built for neck and bridge only
Sweet! I've been kicking around this idea for several months now. I just can't decide on the config that I want to go with....I'm so torn between 1.) 3 P90s; 2.) HH config with 2 p90s or 3.) a hot lipstick in the neck and a set of p90s for the middle & bridge. After finally seeing your video, I am in LOVE with the sound of that p90 in the neck position. Did you wire it up stock? I was thinking that I'd wire everything up as normal with an SSS s-type, except that I'd like to take that second tone pot and wire it up as an independent neck volume. I'd add a toggle to give me the 6th & 7th positions mod, but I'd have the added benefit of being able to roll off the volume of the neck pup at will, and get a good balance. I've heard/read good things about using a Two Volume setup with HH P90s. Seems to be a little more useful than individual Tones. Thanks for the video! Cheers!
These are made by some of the original Mosrite workers or some kind of connection like that, so they're more like Mosrite pickups in a P90 housing. The company is called M3
I love the sound of P90’s!!! They sound a bit thicker than a single coil, but not quite as thick as a HB.
3 P90's in a Strat is the ultimate for P90 tones. I'm a Strat lover so this is excellent!
I wish strats came loaded with 3 P-90s. Then the world would be a more rockin' place. There's nothing like P-90s, and more and more players are discovering that.
@@angusorvid8840 Do what I did. I recently bought a budget Strat and all parts needed and made a 2 P90 Strat that I always wanted. It's one of a kind and unique because it's lefty.
I thought I was being slick with a P-90 neck /single / splitable humbucker Strat but you have out Gibsoned me. Damn you
lol
Man that's some great playing. P90s are perfect for the Blues in a strat! Just inspired me for a partscaster idea 😁
Thanks! I see so many videos where the gain is maxed... This is clean... Straight into a clean amp. From your video, I actually know what this guitar sounds like.
Thanks guy.
Agreed.
I saw Little Charlie Baty with a 3 p90 Telecaster, so I thought I'd search if anyone played a 3 p90 Strat, and here you are playing exactly the style I love. Than you sooo much for this, its the absolute perfect demo for the sound I was thinking!
that sounds good I had this idea and this now confirms that I truly wanna have a strat with 3 p90s
I love the way you make those pickups sing!
Beautiful
I have a budget Squier Strat that I have upgraded to a real player. I have to move to the p90's after that incredible tone and you are my new favorite guitarist. Great playing style. The Best !!! Thanks!
This idea popped in my head as I was looking at my guitar. I'm glad someone made it into reality
Cool man!
Make it real then!
Wow! We need a tutorial on how to make one of these! Haha. Love your soulful blues playing!
4:20 Sounds like "It Hurts Me Too" which is one of my favorites! That tone is just fantastic, I may have to put P90s in my Squier Bullet some day....
I come back and watch this from time to time. I’ve never been a full on blues man, but you might just win this millennial over to that side.
Hey there's nothing wrong with having a variety of tastes. Thanks Justin.
NOW THIS IS THE CLEAN THAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR 💯
I never tire of this clip and your wonderful playing. I went out and bought a Vintage V6P with the 3 P90s after watching this
That's great to hear Rich. Enjoy that sweet axe and thanks for listening!
Haha I am building a Strat in the vein of Gibson myself, I just wanted to be sure as I’ve never used p90’s. This is excellent. Very nice!
Daaammmnnnn! The sounds are just fantastic!
Damn that p90 sounds great in the bridge position with a little dirt on it!
That's what I'd have in a Strat; 3 P90s with a blender or or s1-type switch so u could get Tele sounds or all 3 at once.
Damn id love to hear it 😍
Great tone! Great grove! 😎
quite interesting and beautifull sounding configuration, I've got a Jaguar style 3xP90 low budget guitar, 5-way switch, which is a good experiment in terms sounds possibilities, what seems to me is that on an original strato bench that peculiar sound quality is even more extended
neck+middle sounds great with the p90s!
Far superior to the tone of regular strat pickups. P90's rule!
First of all your a great guitarists. Second of all that guitar sounds amazing with those pickups .
That was AMAZING. OMG!
I have an SX Hawk Strat with the 2 P-90 set up. Believe I prefer the sound over my 3 other Strats with the regular single coil 3 pickup arrangement.
Nice video!
I already knew these, of course, but the two things this video does such a good job of demonstrating for us is:
a) what a fantastic "baby bear's bed" the P90 is to the "papa bear's bed" of humbucker, and the "mama bear's bed" of fender-style single coils (and what a chameleon they are as well)!
b) how pickups are only part of any guitar's sound story; a big part, no doubt - one of the top three biggest parts, most likely....but certainly not at all the "end all and be all".
I know that regardless of the context, a P90 will always land somewhere along a spectrum in-between, say a PAF Les Paul and a standard Strat SSS, just because of the way they're designed. They'll always be hotter, warmer, thicker, richer, and barkier than a standard Strat pickup, and always more expressive, and nuanced, and dynamic, and more dazzling, and spankier than a full humbucker. But what guitar you put them into will make a huge difference on exactly where along that spectrum they land.
In contexts like a P90 Les Paul, or SG, or 335, or jazz hollow body - you know, anything with a 24.75 (or similar) scale, with [usually or primarily] mahogany bodies, set neck, and a tunematic-style bridge, they sound decidedly "PAF of center" to me, whereas in a strat, they not only sound decidedly "Strat of center", but they even sound way more strat-like than I was expecting! In fact, had you told me you were playing a strat, and let me hear without letting me see or telling me about the P90s [edit: original draft had mistakenly said "Humbucker" here] I'm not even positive I would've correctly identified the mod that's how "strat" this sounds!
Given the complexities of guitar tone being so much more than just the pickups, this is true to some degree of any pickup in any guitar. A Strat HH (or an Ibanez RG) will sound like a compromise between Strat and Paul sounds, as do the videos I've seen of people modding Les Pauls with standard Strat pickups will sound like a compromise in the opposite direction. But neither the Strat HH / Ibanez RG or the [we'll just call it] "Les SSS" transform and adapt nearly as much as the P90 guitars do. Insofar as we can separate "pickup sound" from what I'll call "body sound" (literally everything else except pickups), these guitars sound way more pickup, where the P90 examples sound way more "body".
Because the P90 is so much more of a chameleon than either of the extremes. To a certain extent, and in a certain manner of speaking, the extremes are less impacted by their surroundings, and bulldog their own personalities into whatever context they find themselves, where the P90s are much more accommodating and adaptive and compliant to their surroundings!
And this is why if you held a gun to my head and said "name your favorite pickup design", or alternately "you can have 100 guitars, but they all have to use the same kind of pickup", I'd probably have to say P90. :-)
Again, great video! Sorry I rambled on so long! :-)
Great comment! 1 thing, p90s are single coils not humbuckers.
@@greg6509 Thank you!
And I apologize for the confusion: I actually did know that P90s were single coils, but re-reading my original comment just now, I can definitely see where I gave the impression that I didn't. It was likely where I said "but if you hadn't told me about the Humbuckers" in the context of "I might not have even noticed that this strat was modded". I had actually meant to say P90s there, but had what I suppose we could call the guitar pickup equivalent of a "Freudian Slip". 🤣🍻 No, the subtle tell that I actually did know about the P90's being single-coil was in the very early parts of the comment where I said "Fender-style single coils" as if I was making a distinction between single coil styles. 😉
I was actually just thinking about this video again the other day, and how I'd love to get a Harley Benton Strat and mod it, or else, get one of those Rondo SX guitars with 3 P90's, upgrade the pickups, and reverse the wiring on the middle pickup so that you could have those spanky Strat-like "2 and 4 tones" 🙂
Thanks for the reply, and again, my fault on the confusion! I'll probably go back and edit the original comment after this to clear that up! 🙂
Cheers!
Sounds so amazing but hey, Mike can make a 2 by 4 with a nailed on pickup sound pretty darn stunning too.
Ha! Good one Buddy. Thanks for listening!
You da man Mike! :-)
Sounds great , I have a Trevor Wilkinson designed Strat with his 3 stacked p90'S it's the Vintage Reissued Custom Spec V6PFCB Flamed Cherry Burst with a vibrato trem system some people are purist but three P90's takes the Strat to a different universe
5:20 very strange tone for Strat neck 😮
You did it! You found the holy grail of clean tone!!! :-)
It’s got that vintage T Bone Walker frequency popping out that makes me think of late 1940s early 50s bluesy shit
That sounded awesome. ! Nice playing
I love the middle p90!
The clean intro reminds me of the brick in the wall pink Floyd sound. It's rumoured he used p90s, on a gibson guitar I assume, for at least one of his most well known solos. He also used or uses Hiwatt.
He used a goldtop, played DI into the console and reamped it to a Mesa Mark 1
@@nightlust DI? Directly into?
Sounds wonderful man. Thats a damn good combination !
Wow! Big, Barkin' Honkin' Stratty Goodness! Well done Sir!
Thank you Jeffrey!
Looks and sounds awesome!!
Why is this the first time I'm seeing this pick up in a strat?? Great!!
It's been on my partscaster build list for a couple of years. Being a lefty, I'm used to having to mod or build if I want something a little different than a plain stock model. The idea always seemed rad. I wondered why it wasn't explored.
Nice milky tone. Good looking axe. Great playing.
Thank you Mike!
Amazing player you are! Enjoyed!
goooo grandpa bravo
Sweet playing.
I like your playing! Some of it reminds me of Ray Manzarek's keyboards in Riders On The Storm.
Thanks Alexandre. Yeah that's my favorite Doors' song, so I stole some of that! See us on FB Live Fridays 6pm. Cheek2Cheek Duo.
Awesome playing Bro🙏
I was planning on a custom made P90-S-S one day but then I thought why limit those sweet P90 tones to my bridge?? And now I'm here
Why dont they make this and angle the bridge pick up, sounds great
That guitar sounds amazing!
Great playing man, really enjoyable. 👍
Thanks for listening!
Nice playing sir
Yes...I need another strat!
This is so cool! What type of P90s are those? Know where I can get a set?
Cool beans!
Sounds great. 250k or 500k pots?
Sustain is amazing and you played it well again as usual :)
Can you get noise cancelling with the in between positions?
I bet Gary Clark Jr. would love this guitar. He has the Gibson SG with 3 P90's in it.
Cool guitar !!!
Awesome! What is the bridge pickup height you are using?
nice! are the pots 250k or 300k?
What is the brand of the pickups and model?
That's amazing!
Thanks Jeff!
Браво, мр.Дуган!
3 P90’s!!! Nice 😎
Great playing! Love the sound of the P90. Looks like you got quite an arsenal of guitars.
LOVE that tone at 3:40, was that the middle PU alone, or bridge/mid together?
Thanks man, yeah that's the middle pick up.
@@mikeduganblues really great
Excelent p90 alnico 2? Output vintage? Seymour duncan?
I'll bet you went to the crossroads and made a deal.
Sounds great!!
Great tone man👍🏻😁
I never use to like P90's and now I just can't imagine why?
I was wondering, are you using 500k pots? I'm fixing to mod a Squier SE with three P90's. Only difference is I want to use a three way for the neck and bridge, universal volume and tone, then a three position toggle in the bottom tone space. Up, by itself through the volume and tone, middle off, down to mix in with any position with the three way. Great tone and playing.
Magnificent
Made ME wanna jam out! A p90 on my 79 ain’t a bad idea? Maybe just on the bridge.
Let me know if you ever sell it! I have never liked stratocasters until now.
Ive got a 3 p90 strat but the stock pickups kind of suck. What kind of p90’s are these? I’m looking for quality replacements
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What brand of P90's are those?
nice lookin axe! is there any easily obtainable of the weird and interesting pickups page you had put up?
That thing is awesome! Is it for sale?
what’s in the middle?
Did you mod a scratchplate or did you buy it ? If you bought it where is it from ? Thanks bud
sounds great... did you put a bridge in the middle?
These pups were sold as a set of three so it's the M position there
Them tasty licks brother!
Is that Gibson scale? Sounds great.
No, it's a Fender scale
Sounds great! What's the overdrive pedal you're using?
Fulltone OCD
I’m thinking about a similar build . What did you select for picks between neck and bridge considering most p90 sets are built for neck and bridge only
I bought this as a set of three so I guess I didn't have to think about that problem
drowninginguitars ahh well sounds awesome !
sounds sweet....
Nice tone! Love it! Which pedals and amp did you use for this demo?
Fulltone OCD, Big Muff, various delays, Earthquaker echo.
@@drowninginguitars Thanks for the info! :)
Great playing. Guitar sounds very classic (60's 70's). Amp? Pedals?
Thanks! We almost always use an old Ampeg Gemini amp through a Fulltone OCD and various Big Muffs
Thanks for listening John!
What p90 did you use for the middle position? Another neck p90 or a bridge p90?
The pickups are a set of three, so it's a middle position
“It hurts me too”
I like those in Strats, but I’d prefer them with coil taps for the bridge and middle for Strat tone. The neck pickup sounds very stratty ;)
How would you coil tap a p90?
What value pots do you have in there? 250k, 300k, 500k?
I believe I used 500k... but if not then 250k. I can't quite remember!!!
Sweet! I've been kicking around this idea for several months now. I just can't decide on the config that I want to go with....I'm so torn between 1.) 3 P90s; 2.) HH config with 2 p90s or 3.) a hot lipstick in the neck and a set of p90s for the middle & bridge.
After finally seeing your video, I am in LOVE with the sound of that p90 in the neck position. Did you wire it up stock? I was thinking that I'd wire everything up as normal with an SSS s-type, except that I'd like to take that second tone pot and wire it up as an independent neck volume. I'd add a toggle to give me the 6th & 7th positions mod, but I'd have the added benefit of being able to roll off the volume of the neck pup at will, and get a good balance. I've heard/read good things about using a Two Volume setup with HH P90s. Seems to be a little more useful than individual Tones.
Thanks for the video! Cheers!
What brand p90s are you using?
These are made by some of the original Mosrite workers or some kind of connection like that, so they're more like Mosrite pickups in a P90 housing. The company is called M3
cool!!!!!!
Normal strats sound like ducks to me. P90 are so much better!!!
Quack Quack 🎸 lol 😝
Great playing fella. Do you mind me asking what amp you're using?
This was plugged into the Ampeg Gemini on the side there...
Anything a Fender singlecoil pickup can do, a P90 can do better.