i'm considering another angle with my sg and its pickups. i played a double cutaway lp the other day with p90s in it, and really liked them. i'm not in love with my neck pickup, and i'm thinking about putting a neck position phat cat in there. would that work the way my electronics ignorant brain thinks it would? i'm just imagining that the neck position will have the p90's tone, the bridge will have the humbucker's tone, and the middle position will combine the two, thus adding a single coil chime to my favorite position for cleans on the sg. am i missing anything?

what i'm getting at is, will this put something out of phase and cause weird noises or anything?

This probably would not work out like you'd think. Unless you get a humbucker that matches the p-90's output, you're likely to have difficulty balancing the 2 pups.

Using a p-90 neck / humbucker bridge gives you a total of 3 pickups, so that in the middle position, one of the coils in the humbucker will not be getting hum-cancelled, and of course the neck p-90 by itself will have all of the glory of the single coil hum. This may or may not matter to you. You could rig it so that when you have the neck and bridge pups on that one of the coils in the bridge bucker gets dropped, but there again you'll probably have balancing problems.

I actually really liked the DiMarzio Bluesbuckers, a sorta faux p-90 tone in a humbucker configuration.

that's what i was wondering. thanks.

I put a Phat cat in the bridge position on my ES-345 trying to brighten it up a little. It worked out great and balances fine with the Duncan 59 in the neck position. Also, I haven't noticed anymore noise.

rollo: can you describe the tone of the pickup? my sg has a 57 classic in it. it's similar to the duncan 59 so it might work out. what did you replace, and how do they sound together?

My 345 is somewhat mellow so I was looking for a pickup that would give the bridge position a little more bite but not thin like my strat. I tried a JB, a custom custom, and an old PAF, but the phat cat gave me the sound I was looking for. I'm tempted to put one in the neck position too, but I do like a round mellow sound there. The Phat cat has plenty of output to blend well with the neck 59 and it's perfect to go to when I want my leads to cut through. Whether it will work as well with an SG, replacing the neck humbucker, will have to be seen, but it sounds like a winner to me.