Art imitating life. This guitar is much like the bands that play it to get their sound. No masive amounts of effects, bells or whistles needed. Just tone in it's purest format.
very cool to hear!!! i have a bareknuckle warpig 90 on the way to go in my 1990 les paul...then it will go thru my mesa mark IV/EVH 50W stealth stereo rig...can't wait to hear it, cheers!!!
i have this exact guitar. the single best playing guitar i’ve had out of the box, and even though the neck is chunkier than i usually prefer it is really comfortable. also sounds really great and the volume and tone controls are exactly as you described. i find myself often playing with the tone around 8
I have become a full blown P90 junkie. It started a few years ago when a friend gave me Squier Tele Custom II that he had acquired in a trade. I was instantly hooked. I run them through my EVH 50 watt head, blue channel with the gain at about 9:00. The tone sits beautifully in the mix and feels amazing.
I saw Mastodon on their current 2022 tour and Brent Hinds played 1/3 of the show on a single P90 LP JR double cut model. It sounded massive by the way.
I personally have tried several P90s. But the Gibson ones are my favorite. Maybe it is the shorter scale length combined with the P90, but I love the growl that comes with them.
I agree with you but I think the Gibson ones are just flat out better pickups than most other guitar manufacturers have made. There are definitely some good aftermarket P90s out there but other guitar manufacturers like Fender and PRS just don't make as good of pickups IMO. People bash on Gibson for everything, some deserved, much of it just people talking crap because they think it's cool or because they don't have one. But one thing that I don't think anyone can ever get on Gibson about is how good their pickups are.
That pairing also kills in a live setting too. A good chunk of Green Day’s live album Bullet in a Bible is Billie Joe Armstrong’s LP Jr and the other guitarist playing a 335, along with Mike Dirnt’s P-bass it’s all a really killer sound.
I have a '97 Epiphone Les Paul Junior and it just sings. There's something really awesome about a guitar with just one pickup, and the dog-eared P90 has to be one of the best sounding pickups of all time. A true classic, and so much more versatile than it looks.
This video showed me how much skate punk needs to make a comeback. As for P90s I always kind of wrote them off until I got a Gretsch with them and now I'm sold on their place.
For anyone who wants the P90 sound but you don’t want to buy a whole new guitar bareknuckle make humbucker sized P90’s and they’re BADASS, they sound really good and you have a tone of options of vintage to modern and I’m currently working on a project guitar that is using them. I haven’t had the chance to play through an amp with them yet but from what I have read online they do “the thing” P90’s are known to do and they sound pretty great, a little different from a normal P90 because it’s bigger but 99% of the way their and in a metal context I doubt any of us would notice. Also just a heads up I’m not any way affiliated with them, I just wanted to share that information in case anyone wanted it.
I got a $130 Firefly dog eared P90 double cut junior-ish guitar on an Amazon whim during covid lockdown & after the first stimulus check. Put Grovers on it right out of the box and honestly was blown away! Recently sold it, and seriously now kind of regret doing so. Outside of the whole "modern metal" genre, it's honestly a really versatile Rock/Punk workhorse jack of all trades IMO. Great content as always Ryan! Stay awesome amigo!
I have been through several P90 guitars in my life, and I've enjoyed every one. Currently have an Eastman SB55/V and a Fender Noventa Tele, and they both sound great through all of my amps!
I picked up an Epiphone Les Paul Custom 55' with Gibson P90's after having to send my main LP in the shop and needing something beefy for a session I had coming up and It became one of my favorite and my most tracked guitar. They just sound so mean and sit so well in a mix yet have a wide dynamic range. I rarely leave my bridge pickup because you can get so much out of it.
I have two P90 Les Pauls and I love 'em. One is a 60s Tribute Studio with a thinner 60s neck and chambered body that's a bit brighter. But the one I reach for most is a Gem Studio. 50s neck and solid body. It's a guitar you can really dig into.
Between Chris Robertson talking about his love of P90's and this video, went for CR's signature model with a p90 in the neck. That thing sounds outstanding and a killer feature of it is coil-splitting the humbucker then moving to the middle. bucks the hum but you get a lot of p90 sound still
I have an Epiphone SG with P90's and the neck pickup clean tones are just about the best thing ever. It's also fun to turn the neck tone all the way down and go to the middle position. It gives me a sort of cocked-wah type sound.
I wonder if the SG-shape and construction would make a noticeably different tone compared to this simple LP-junior shape. It should be the same materials and hardware.
This explains why I don't like my Les Paul. I got it for rhythms, but the PGs really push it into being a leads tone. I need a lot of work to take out its chunkiness. Pickups. Always amazing
The Offspring has used the same SG Junior with a single P90 in the bridge for more than 90% of thier albums. Noodles uses an Ibanez Talman equipped with p90's on tour too (sometimes, depending on the quality of the power grid there).
My favorite P90 player would be Dennis Hormes from Germany (he was involved in the ENGL Retro amp design). Search for his album Six String Therapy or some live videos.
I have a Duesenberg Caribou all stock with P90 at the neck and humbucker at the bridge and i really like the sounds i can get with that combination. But this makes me want to try a guitar with a bridge P90 aswell
Mike Ness from Social Distortion....oop there you said it just as I was typing lol. YESSSSS. Love me some Mike Ness and Social Distortion, dude has the best tone ever
I dropped a pair of P-94s (humbucker sized P-90) in one of my LPs. Its sounds fantastic. In middle position, they sound like a HUGE humbucker. Lots of fun tones to be had from clean to heavy fuzz, and of course, chugs.
P90 for me is Jerry Cantrell. Say whaaaaaat???? Yeap. The last three records are FULL of p90 riffs, in fact he just about lays a P90 track on every song, specifically a vintage Gibson SG with a single p90 on the bridge.
I have a Humbucker size P90 is the middle position of my triple Humbucker SG. Basically making it kinda like a HSH. I did it because I found that I just never had a use for the sound of the middle pickup as a humbucker. But with a P90 there, its a more usable position for me and quite interesting to play with.
Steve Von Till from Neurosis uses a p90 but they also have such a massive sound it's hard to even notice lmao I myself find them to be one of my favorite pickups to achieve some of the best surfy tones
With a guitar that has the p90 slot routed 1/2 inch further away from the saddles than that junior, you get a touch more warmth. But still all the Fiesty-ness.
I think you should definitely try a P90 in a down tuned guitar, a baritone guitar for example. The brighter sound compared to a humbucker makes the low tunings not go crazy in the bass frequencies and the saturation of the P90 gives enough body for a big gainy sound bit it's not as scratchy as typical single could pickups and less muddy than humbuckers. It's a great middle of the road thing, that really helps out with low tunings.
I actually been wanting a p90 guitar almost got one awhile back at Sweetwater but i think pandemic was full on things changed as we all know they had a les paul jr double cut i was looking at would be nice they sound really dynamic i played an old 70's les paul one time with p90s great sound great video Fluff !!😈🤘
mike ness is the only reason i want a goldtop LP with p90's. i love p90's in general though and had a custom pair made that i put into a music man valentine
I would love a P90 guitar, but would prefer a 2 pickup one, I prefer the sound of the neck pickup with a P90 to one in the bridge But having one in both would be cool Am having trouble finding one around here here for a decent price that also is comfortable to play
I love a big soapbar P90 in a neck configuration with humbucker in the bridge... But Jim Adkins signature thinline Tele is definitely on my short list!
P90s are my favorite pickup, my 56 Gold Top Reissue has been my favorite for over 10 years now and more recently I bought an Epiphone P93 Riviera that has been fantastic. It's unfortunately under a headstock repair but that's a story I don't want to get into.
I can recommend the Epiphone Lp jr. 57 Reissue. It's way more affordable than any Gibson and has a similar quality. The P100 of this is a bit different, but a solid rock n roll pick up nonetheless, it is a stacked single coil which reduces hum and has a very unique sound. If you are more into real P90s you can afford some real nice ones and still pay less than half the price Gibson asks for.. I found a 57 RI for less than 300€ recently. I only did not buy it because I already own one..
Hows about mini-humbuckers?.. I find they are similar to 90s.. (I used to have a 1974 Les Paul Special with p90s and a 1976 Les Paud deluxe with minis.. But yeah I played the punk rocks) Ripsaw grinding sound..
The question is "what to do with the 60 cycle hum..?? I got my first P90 guitar with a Gibson SG Special about 2 years ago (the blue on in the picture there☝️)...and didn't know whether I should get a good noise gate, or if I should I get a minihumbucker for the bridge. I ended up doing both. 🤷♂️ But as much as I have gotten great cutting tones from the mini, I have been feeling like I should give the bridge P90 another try...
Try'em downtuned through a heavy fuzz. My Les Paul standard was always too muddy even for our stoner/doom riffing, but my LP special downtuned through that same rig... just the right kind of nasty. I added now an EQD Arrows after the fuzz to eliminate some more mud and boost the signal a bit and it totally chugs.
I have two guitars, an ESP EC256 with humbuckers and an EC256P with P90s. The P90 cuts through a band better than the humbucker and makes a great rhythm guitar sound. It can bark and grind very well and has more definition than a humbucker. I’ve not had feedback issues from the stock P90s but then it’s a solid body guitar. I play in a James Williamson/ Stooges style and both humbuckers and P90s suit me well. Raw rock n roll.
P90s, old gold- or silver-foil pickups, and the like are so much fun. Yeah, they're noisy, but they're so much fatter than a standard single coil with a certain bite to them. There's more treble and upper mid-range. So good. I already have a gold-foil equipped guitar (Harmony Bobkat H15V), but I think something with P90s may be in my future.
P90's rule especially if you love those Punk/Rock trebly riffs! I find a p90 that isn't too hot is the best as they have more headroom & isn't too hot from the off.
P90 sound is 1 AM at the end of the last set and the bar is not as full but more intimate. Sweaty but in the groove and hitting every note and sounding like a torn speaker cone. Ragged but under control. Love them. Hum is not cool. To each their own though. Best Regards and Best Wishes
Gibson P90s are a bit on the wimpy side in my option so when I got my Tony Iommi SG I replaced them with very high gain Pig P90s from Bare Knuckle Pickups. My SG went from 8k to 20k on the bridge and from 7k to 18k on the neck. I also had them reverse wind the neck p90 so when it’s in the middle selection it acts as a humbucker. It definitely chugs.
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Wonderful. Why the seeming contradiction of “less is more” hangs on.
Art imitating life. This guitar is much like the bands that play it to get their sound. No masive amounts of effects, bells or whistles needed. Just tone in it's purest format.
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Damn. That exceptional fretboard makes that guitar shine. P90s are great too.
I was thinking the same thing, that board is beautiful.
I love that fretboard. The first 5 frets the wood color shift is dope
Thank you for the Brian Baker reference! He inspired me to embrace the Junior.
I'll say it from the off.... P90s do 100% chug for metal and higher gain sounds. It's a perfect blend of clarity and thump with amps such as Mesa
I'll even say this, you don't need noiseless... In a live band mix it should all work out.
very cool to hear!!! i have a bareknuckle warpig 90 on the way to go in my 1990 les paul...then it will go thru my mesa mark IV/EVH 50W stealth stereo rig...can't wait to hear it, cheers!!!
On some recent tours, Bill Steer from Carcass has used a LP Junior with a P-90. Still has that signature Steer/Carcass sound.
@@godofdeadlydeath just saw them with immolation a month ago in buffalo, great show!!! he's had that LP Jr. for a while now...cheers, brother!!!
My P90 guitars through my Mesa TC50 sound amazing. My McCarty with P90s tuned down a half step into the Mesa is heaven.
jesus, that is gorgeous two-tone fretboard!
i have this exact guitar. the single best playing guitar i’ve had out of the box, and even though the neck is chunkier than i usually prefer it is really comfortable. also sounds really great and the volume and tone controls are exactly as you described. i find myself often playing with the tone around 8
I have become a full blown P90 junkie. It started a few years ago when a friend gave me Squier Tele Custom II that he had acquired in a trade. I was instantly hooked. I run them through my EVH 50 watt head, blue channel with the gain at about 9:00. The tone sits beautifully in the mix and feels amazing.
The P90 is a unique pickup. I've always liked the esthetic of it also and they have a cool feed-back too.
Sounds sooooo good!! Social Distortion is in my top 5 of favorite bands of all time. Guess it's time to pull the trigger on a Les Paul with P90s
I saw Mastodon on their current 2022 tour and Brent Hinds played 1/3 of the show on a single P90 LP JR double cut model. It sounded massive by the way.
2016 SG standard P90s love the growl , great video
P90s were the staple to one of my favorite records of all time. Absolutely love their sound
I have a thinline tele with P90's and its one of my favourite sounding Instruments
I personally have tried several P90s. But the Gibson ones are my favorite. Maybe it is the shorter scale length combined with the P90, but I love the growl that comes with them.
I agree with you but I think the Gibson ones are just flat out better pickups than most other guitar manufacturers have made. There are definitely some good aftermarket P90s out there but other guitar manufacturers like Fender and PRS just don't make as good of pickups IMO. People bash on Gibson for everything, some deserved, much of it just people talking crap because they think it's cool or because they don't have one. But one thing that I don't think anyone can ever get on Gibson about is how good their pickups are.
@@ChrisEck13 For real man. My Sg is the only guitar I wouldn't change the pickups
i actually just opened my eastman sb55dc/v. a double cut junior that came in the mail. perfect timing!
The tone in the demo was spot on to great punk tones. Almost had a Offspring Noodles type tone to it. I hope you do more with it!
P90s blend really well with humbuckers on record especially for double tracking rock/punk/stuff like that. Very unique sound that just kinda works.
That pairing also kills in a live setting too. A good chunk of Green Day’s live album Bullet in a Bible is Billie Joe Armstrong’s LP Jr and the other guitarist playing a 335, along with Mike Dirnt’s P-bass it’s all a really killer sound.
I just think Leslie West!💯💜🙌🤟🎸 That tone on Mississippi Queen with the Sun P.A heads he got by mistake was so thick and heavy for that time!
Came here to see if a Leslie West comment surfaced. 100% Agree, some seriously heavy tone in that band - minimal buzz too.
Some really nasty stuff came out of the Beatles' Casinos, too!
I've always enjoyed your guitar playing I love the punk riffs! I know it was short but it sounded great!!
Was awesome seeing you in Birmingham last week, sick show 🤘
I have a '97 Epiphone Les Paul Junior and it just sings. There's something really awesome about a guitar with just one pickup, and the dog-eared P90 has to be one of the best sounding pickups of all time. A true classic, and so much more versatile than it looks.
This video showed me how much skate punk needs to make a comeback. As for P90s I always kind of wrote them off until I got a Gretsch with them and now I'm sold on their place.
The Gretsch PUs are usually a little different from regular P90s but great PUs nonetheless..
@@flotenn3351 mine actually has P90s not filtertrons
@@flotenn3351 if you meant the gretsch in house "p90s" than you are right. I like them but I wouldn't know the difference.
@@chrisgirth7373 interesting. I thought they ususlly come with filtertrons. My bandmate put one of these in an epi sg. Not bad at all..
I've had an SE One for years. Absolutely love it!
I'm always tempted to order one on Reverb. I already have a P90, but that one is just so cool, and I doubt PRS will ever make another one.
Only change I made was the bridge. I was pleasantly surprised by the stock pup. Sounded really good, and really lightweight.
For anyone who wants the P90 sound but you don’t want to buy a whole new guitar bareknuckle make humbucker sized P90’s and they’re BADASS, they sound really good and you have a tone of options of vintage to modern and I’m currently working on a project guitar that is using them. I haven’t had the chance to play through an amp with them yet but from what I have read online they do “the thing” P90’s are known to do and they sound pretty great, a little different from a normal P90 because it’s bigger but 99% of the way their and in a metal context I doubt any of us would notice.
Also just a heads up I’m not any way affiliated with them, I just wanted to share that information in case anyone wanted it.
Look into an old Peavey Patriot guitar with the dual Super Ferrite pickups, they were Peaveys version of the P90
One of the best pickup configurations I've found is humbucker in the bridge and p90 in the neck
Yes, the Duesenberg combination, very versatile
I have 2 PRS guitars setup like that. One is a Chris Robertson signature and the other is a modified SE245. Great sounds from both.
I got a $130 Firefly dog eared P90 double cut junior-ish guitar on an Amazon whim during covid lockdown & after the first stimulus check. Put Grovers on it right out of the box and honestly was blown away! Recently sold it, and seriously now kind of regret doing so. Outside of the whole "modern metal" genre, it's honestly a really versatile Rock/Punk workhorse jack of all trades IMO.
Great content as always Ryan!
Stay awesome amigo!
Half expected to hear Greg Graffin's voice. Great stuff, dude. P90s are a hole in my arsenal.
Thank you for doing this episode!!!!!!
The fretboard is beautiful on that Gibson
I just bought that same guitar and it’s insane how much i like it
I have been through several P90 guitars in my life, and I've enjoyed every one. Currently have an Eastman SB55/V and a Fender Noventa Tele, and they both sound great through all of my amps!
I picked up an Epiphone Les Paul Custom 55' with Gibson P90's after having to send my main LP in the shop and needing something beefy for a session I had coming up and It became one of my favorite and my most tracked guitar. They just sound so mean and sit so well in a mix yet have a wide dynamic range. I rarely leave my bridge pickup because you can get so much out of it.
Hi everyone hope all okay
I’m picking my new Yamaha Revstar p90 swift blue can’t wait 😛
Followup video where you use the Omacht? Pretty please?
The fret board on that guitar is beautiful with the two different wood tones.
I have two P90 Les Pauls and I love 'em. One is a 60s Tribute Studio with a thinner 60s neck and chambered body that's a bit brighter. But the one I reach for most is a Gem Studio. 50s neck and solid body. It's a guitar you can really dig into.
I received an Epiphone 54 Gold Top reissue from a friend. It has a pair of P90s, it is my go-to guitar, especially for leads that cut through the mix.
My fav pickup!!!!! A Gibson double cut JR LP, single P90, heavy relic. 🤘🤘🤘
Between Chris Robertson talking about his love of P90's and this video, went for CR's signature model with a p90 in the neck. That thing sounds outstanding and a killer feature of it is coil-splitting the humbucker then moving to the middle. bucks the hum but you get a lot of p90 sound still
I have an Epiphone SG with P90's and the neck pickup clean tones are just about the best thing ever. It's also fun to turn the neck tone all the way down and go to the middle position. It gives me a sort of cocked-wah type sound.
I use little wireless things alot and they have the bonus of functioning like a noise gate the work most of the time
This video couldn't have come at better time, I was thinking about buying a LP junior!
I have had one since 2008, it's my #1 go to guitar
*DO IT*
@@R1GAMBLER 😂 I will!
Toni Iommi used P90s on at least the first 6 albums with Black sabbath. He played on a 65 SG special. The Monkey SG.
John Birch still makes P90's.
get in line. it's a long line.
@@R1GAMBLER Bare Knuckle Pickups Pig P90s are just as hot without the wait.
I wonder if the SG-shape and construction would make a noticeably different tone compared to this simple LP-junior shape. It should be the same materials and hardware.
@@groteandreas1482 I can't imagine it would make a noticeable difference. Maybe if it was a thick LP Standard with P90s vs an SG or LP Jr.
This explains why I don't like my Les Paul. I got it for rhythms, but the PGs really push it into being a leads tone. I need a lot of work to take out its chunkiness.
Pickups. Always amazing
Great video mate, I had a similar misconception but tried a humbucker sized P90 and loved the sound.
I have a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat in the neck of my old LP Studio and it sounds da great. Thinking about putting a full set in my Stingray.
The Offspring has used the same SG Junior with a single P90 in the bridge for more than 90% of thier albums. Noodles uses an Ibanez Talman equipped with p90's on tour too (sometimes, depending on the quality of the power grid there).
My favorite P90 player would be Dennis Hormes from Germany (he was involved in the ENGL Retro amp design). Search for his album Six String Therapy or some live videos.
I have a Duesenberg Caribou all stock with P90 at the neck and humbucker at the bridge and i really like the sounds i can get with that combination. But this makes me want to try a guitar with a bridge P90 aswell
Love doozies!
Mike Ness from Social Distortion....oop there you said it just as I was typing lol. YESSSSS. Love me some Mike Ness and Social Distortion, dude has the best tone ever
I dropped a pair of P-94s (humbucker sized P-90) in one of my LPs. Its sounds fantastic. In middle position, they sound like a HUGE humbucker. Lots of fun tones to be had from clean to heavy fuzz, and of course, chugs.
P90 for me is Jerry Cantrell. Say whaaaaaat???? Yeap. The last three records are FULL of p90 riffs, in fact he just about lays a P90 track on every song, specifically a vintage Gibson SG with a single p90 on the bridge.
Wow incredibly versatile
I noticed it’s that nekrogoblikon song he played in the full mix!
A few months ago I replaced the neck pickup of my tele with a HB-sized P90, absolutely game-changing shit
I have a Humbucker size P90 is the middle position of my triple Humbucker SG. Basically making it kinda like a HSH.
I did it because I found that I just never had a use for the sound of the middle pickup as a humbucker. But with a P90 there, its a more usable position for me and quite interesting to play with.
That's funny cos I have a P90 sized humbucker* in the bridge of my SG (☝️)!
*Well, technically it's a minihumbucker..
Cool man , I have just got a harley Benton les Paul style with p90, fekin awesome for the price paid🤘👍
P90 neck tones … sublime!
can you recommend a good set of shelves similar to what you have for your amp heads?Thanks!
Steve Von Till from Neurosis uses a p90 but they also have such a massive sound it's hard to even notice lmao
I myself find them to be one of my favorite pickups to achieve some of the best surfy tones
With a guitar that has the p90 slot routed 1/2 inch further away from the saddles than that junior, you get a touch more warmth. But still all the Fiesty-ness.
a lot of signature pickups are based on modified p90's woundet for high output, old school vs modern needs! cheers
I think you should definitely try a P90 in a down tuned guitar, a baritone guitar for example. The brighter sound compared to a humbucker makes the low tunings not go crazy in the bass frequencies and the saturation of the P90 gives enough body for a big gainy sound bit it's not as scratchy as typical single could pickups and less muddy than humbuckers. It's a great middle of the road thing, that really helps out with low tunings.
That Sounds Great!
I actually been wanting a p90 guitar almost got one awhile back at Sweetwater but i think pandemic was full on things changed as we all know they had a les paul jr double cut i was looking at would be nice they sound really dynamic i played an old 70's les paul one time with p90s great sound great video Fluff !!😈🤘
mike ness is the only reason i want a goldtop LP with p90's. i love p90's in general though and had a custom pair made that i put into a music man valentine
I would love a P90 guitar, but would prefer a 2 pickup one, I prefer the sound of the neck pickup with a P90 to one in the bridge
But having one in both would be cool
Am having trouble finding one around here here for a decent price that also is comfortable to play
p90s are my favorite pickups
The fretboard is killer. I'd have gone with a dual pickup version. Not a big fan of the wraptail bridge but P-90s always sound great.
Mr F
I never had a P90 until recently. I too loved the sounds. After a while I got rid if it. Too much noise for what I do. I hate gates.
P90s are the very definition of rock and roll. I will have a Casino one of these days.
Now you should check out the Fender Noventa Strat with 2 P90s
I put the Fishman+Greg Koch P90 set in my Epi SG and couldn't be happier
Would love to see MusicMan’s take on a P90 🤔🤔🤔
I love a big soapbar P90 in a neck configuration with humbucker in the bridge... But Jim Adkins signature thinline Tele is definitely on my short list!
get one with two P90s and hit the middle position. you're welcome in advance, that's one of my favorite tones.
Love my LPJ
Don't forget Jim Atkins of Jimmy Eat World, he famously loves P90's in his telecaster.
My first guitar has P90s. Amazing pickups for sure.
P90s are my favorite pickup, my 56 Gold Top Reissue has been my favorite for over 10 years now and more recently I bought an Epiphone P93 Riviera that has been fantastic. It's unfortunately under a headstock repair but that's a story I don't want to get into.
I play P90’s on damn near anything.
Lollar and Fralin make my favorites but even the Epi 90’s don’t suck.
I can recommend the Epiphone Lp jr. 57 Reissue. It's way more affordable than any Gibson and has a similar quality. The P100 of this is a bit different, but a solid rock n roll pick up nonetheless, it is a stacked single coil which reduces hum and has a very unique sound. If you are more into real P90s you can afford some real nice ones and still pay less than half the price Gibson asks for.. I found a 57 RI for less than 300€ recently. I only did not buy it because I already own one..
Hows about mini-humbuckers?..
I find they are similar to 90s..
(I used to have a 1974 Les Paul Special with p90s and a 1976 Les Paud deluxe with minis..
But yeah I played the punk rocks) Ripsaw grinding sound..
The question is "what to do with the 60 cycle hum..??
I got my first P90 guitar with a Gibson SG Special about 2 years ago (the blue on in the picture there☝️)...and didn't know whether I should get a good noise gate, or if I should I get a minihumbucker for the bridge.
I ended up doing both. 🤷♂️
But as much as I have gotten great cutting tones from the mini, I have been feeling like I should give the bridge P90 another try...
Much needed and much appreciated video!
You know what I need .another round of your mom
Try'em downtuned through a heavy fuzz. My Les Paul standard was always too muddy even for our stoner/doom riffing, but my LP special downtuned through that same rig... just the right kind of nasty. I added now an EQD Arrows after the fuzz to eliminate some more mud and boost the signal a bit and it totally chugs.
I have two guitars, an ESP EC256 with humbuckers and an EC256P with P90s.
The P90 cuts through a band better than the humbucker and makes a great rhythm guitar sound.
It can bark and grind very well and has more definition than a humbucker. I’ve not had feedback issues from the stock P90s but then it’s a solid body guitar.
I play in a James Williamson/ Stooges style and both humbuckers and P90s suit me well. Raw rock n roll.
These are still a great introduction to the Gibson brand.
P90s, old gold- or silver-foil pickups, and the like are so much fun. Yeah, they're noisy, but they're so much fatter than a standard single coil with a certain bite to them. There's more treble and upper mid-range. So good. I already have a gold-foil equipped guitar (Harmony Bobkat H15V), but I think something with P90s may be in my future.
Was that forever young by valley of chrome? 😄
P90's rule especially if you love those Punk/Rock trebly riffs! I find a p90 that isn't too hot is the best as they have more headroom & isn't too hot from the off.
Goldtop's & Jr.'s P90 ♥️
P90 sound is 1 AM at the end of the last set and the bar is not as full but more intimate. Sweaty but in the groove and hitting every note and sounding like a torn speaker cone. Ragged but under control. Love them.
Hum is not cool. To each their own though. Best Regards and Best Wishes
I am building a kit with P90s currently
RightOn.. Groovy Man.
I want a jr so bad!!!!!
Gibson P90s are a bit on the wimpy side in my option so when I got my Tony Iommi SG I replaced them with very high gain Pig P90s from Bare Knuckle Pickups. My SG went from 8k to 20k on the bridge and from 7k to 18k on the neck. I also had them reverse wind the neck p90 so when it’s in the middle selection it acts as a humbucker. It definitely chugs.
Yooo what was that song that you used in the demo?