Has anyone tried putting a P90 in on the bridge of a strat

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I like my BK Mississippi Queens a lot, I wonder what a P90 would be like on a strat,

since I usually don't find that SSH works for me

I think Wilkinson do some set up that way, but has anyone played any guitars set up with SSP?

EricTheWeary

FretKing do one. Blues guitarist Debbie Davies used that set up a lot, she'd been back up guitarist to Albert Collins for a while and wanted to get closer to that biting sound on a strat.

richardhomer

Ry Cooder's blue Strat had one for a while.

Probably down to his playing - but it sounded fantastic.

koneguitarist

Put a tele pickup in there, won't look so out of place and will be similar tone wise. Albert Lee did it on his first music man, sounded great.

earwighoney

richardhomer said:

Ry Cooder's blue Strat had one for a while.

Probably down to his playing - but it sounded fantastic.

Are you sure about that?  I thought RC's blue 67 strat, the one with the Bigsby tremolo and the wood block where the Strat tremolo was had a Bigsby Lap Steel pickup at the bridge and a Guyatone gold foil at the neck.  Or is it another one in question? 

richardhomer

earwighoney;1136588" said:

Are you sure about that?  I thought RC's blue 67 strat, the one with the Bigsby tremolo and the wood block where the Strat tremolo was had a Bigsby Lap Steel pickup at the bridge and a Guyatone gold foil at the neck.  Or is it another one in question? 

Here it is, in its earlier incarnation (filmed in the early 80s):

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or could use an overwound ?

I thought Kinman did an Hx85 that was a bit like p90

but now it seems they have one designed to be so:

http://kinman.com/model-products.php?pid=4&products=Stratocaster&linegroup=yes&modelid=2&model=Big-Nine-0&group=Single Strat Pickups

earwighoney

richardhomer said:

earwighoney;1136588" said:

Are you sure about that?  I thought RC's blue 67 strat, the one with the Bigsby tremolo and the wood block where the Strat tremolo was had a Bigsby Lap Steel pickup at the bridge and a Guyatone gold foil at the neck.  Or is it another one in question? 

Here it is, in its earlier incarnation (filmed in the early 80s):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7j_jx0IYs

Cheers for that.  I didn't know about that earlier incarnation.  It sounds amazing like all the guitars RC plays but I am in agreement, his playing is the most important thing when it comes to his signature sound. 

Also, how thick is the low E on that guitar!  It looks like a telephone wire! 

guitars4you

I've contemplate going all 3 at some time or another - most under-rated pick up

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guitars4you said:

I've contemplate going all 3 at some time or another - most under-rated pick up

I have 2 MQs on a LP-type guitar, just wondered how a nice clean strat neck pup  would compare

I did one have a set of hotter than usual kinmans in a mahogany strat, but the neck pickup was too dark for me

Dave_Mc

yeah i've got a fretking with that setup. more dirt in the bridge like with an HSS setup but not too keen on position 4 as you can't split a p90 like you can a humbucker. maybe a tapped p90 would be an idea but as usual i haven't got round to it...

knuckleberryfinn

I experimented with putting all kinds of pickups in the bridge position of a Strat a few years ago, one of them a P90. It was great for dirty slide stuff, but I preferred a 57 Classic for all-round playing.

DaiCapp

I've done a strat with just a P90 in the bridge - one pickup, one volume no tone control. Sounds immense but it's a overwound Rio Grande I popped in it... Definitely less toppy than normal but still not as thick sounding as a humbucker...

knuckleberryfinn

DaiCapp;1137418" said:

I've done a strat with just a P90 in the bridge - one pickup, one volume no tone control. Sounds immense but it's a overwound Rio Grande I popped in it... Definitely less toppy than normal but still not as thick sounding as a humbucker...

Ha! That's exactly what I did.

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knuckleberryfinn said:

DaiCapp;1137418" said:

I've done a strat with just a P90 in the bridge - one pickup, one volume no tone control. Sounds immense but it's a overwound Rio Grande I popped in it... Definitely less toppy than normal but still not as thick sounding as a humbucker...

Ha! That's exactly what I did.

I put a treble bleed on my Mississippi queens
very effective, I can get them down to a strattier sound when needed