humbucker and two P90s?

axisus · March 2014

Would this configuration be any good? Has it been done?

Humbucker in the bridge, p90s in the middle and neck, and strat switching?

ThePrettyDamned · March 2014

I think yamaha have done a few like this.

I really like the idea, or even humbucker and a p90. Just anything in the neck that's not a regular humbuggy, oil city is going to try a more unusual humbucker design for me...

Also, p90s are great looking pickups. I know that shouldn't matter...

WezV · March 2014

the only real downside is that pairing P90's with humbuckers really highlights how noisy P90's can be

impmann · March 2014

I had a Strat that I had the brainwave of fitting 3 x p90s to... and I lost sustain, plus it sounded bad. The pickup supplier said that the magnetic pull of the P90s was significantly higher than that of the original Single coils and that could affect the string vibration... so I converted it back and all was well again.

I don't know how true this is/was (perhaps Ash has a view) but it has put me off fitting more than two P90s to anything since. Make of that what you will. :-)

OilCityPickups · March 2014

Hornswaggle! 18 individual (usually alnico 5 magnets) directly under the strings versus 6 (opposed) bar magnets buried far under the coils and only transferring their field via soft iron screws.
Now if the P90s were ceramic I could see a case ...

Plus I've made 3 P90s work on various guitars over the years, including a Strat.

ICBM · March 2014

I had a 3-P90 PRS which sounded fine. Although I didn't like the bridge pickup, and I did wonder about fitting it with a humbucker, I never could quite bring myself to mod it… it would have looked wrong

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If you're worried about hum, make sure you get RWRP P90s, that way at least the neck/middle position will be hum cancelling. That was always my favourite setting on my PRS.

axisus · March 2014

@theguitarweasel - in case you hadn't guessed, looks like I'm coming into a bit of GAS dosh, so I'm thinking about the stealth pup again (that we discussed last year). I may resurrect that idea if you have time to try it out.

impmann · March 2014

:-) OK, I defer to Mr Guitarweasel's far greater experience/knowledge and general all round good-eggness... perhaps there was some other factor involved.

As you were and all that...

usedtobe · March 2014

I've got a guitar with a bridge humbucker, and a neck p90. It's mighty fine!

OilCityPickups · March 2014

axisus said:

@theguitarweasel - in case you hadn't guessed, looks like I'm coming into a bit of GAS dosh, so I'm thinking about the stealth pup again (that we discussed last year). I may resurrect that idea if you have time to try it out.

Got some stealth drawings somewhere ... buggered if i can find em

Happy to start working on that for you again .....

axisus · March 2014

I'll PM you if the money comes through.

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