I only own two guitars. One is a strat and the other has a two humbucker config. Being a Strat player for a long time I recently fell in love with humbuckers. My Strat has been pretty much collecting dust for the past year. I recently dug out my Strat again and I am falling in love with it more and more every day I play it!! I had forgotten how versitile Strats are compared to your standard double humbucker set up. I currently have another humbucker type guitar on layaway and now I'm wondering if I should take the money I already have down and buy another Strat instead. I don't really expect any of you guys to have the answer for me because I realize this is something I will just have to figure out on my own. I'm sure I'm not the first person who's had to deal with this kind of dilemma.
Same problem for me, too. But you've gone farther than me. You dug your Strat out! I'm still afraid to dig my Strat back out for fear I'll never put her down again. It's been almost a year. After playing my beauty Strat for 20 years I bought a humbucking guitar. What a strange beast it is, some wicked tones not available before has vexed me and put me in it's spell. I get very jealous reading about all our Strat players here. You and I are almost like a Lonely Hearts Club. Strat dudes who play Humbuckings. This weekend for sure I'll do it. I play my wife's Strat sometimes, but it is no way the same. It's not mine. And mine's a waiting...
Posts: 646 | Location: Berwyn, IL | Registered: December 25, 2001
P-90's are next on my list!. The thing about Strats that I've found I missed was those middle positions on the selector switch, or the "duck" tones as I've heard them called. Can't really do those well with 2 h Buckers. Basically it just seems that the Strat and the Single coils allow me to be myself and to hear more of what I'm really doing. I'm on my way to the music store to buy another Strat right now!!!
With P-90's , especially on an LP jr. , special , or an SG ,you can get a great " in-between " cluck using both pickups . Or , do what I did and have a Strat made with 3 P-90's ( also have a '74 Lp special ).
Posts: 2663 | Location: los angeles ca usa | Registered: December 19, 2001
Oh well, tantrums won't get me them. If I do get another guitar, it will be an SG. That's what my wife wants. I don't think she'll go for the P-90s. She has seen Angus!
Posts: 646 | Location: Berwyn, IL | Registered: December 25, 2001
Ok, I'm back. I just bought a G&L Legacy. It's about 10 years old and is mint! There is still plastic under the screws on the pickguard. I couldn't be happier! I think I might replace the pickups though. I think these are stock vintage type pickups, and I'm used to my other Strat that has Rio Grande Tallboys in it. Maybe some Fralin Vintage hots.
quote:Originally posted by ken: I want P-90s waaaaaa
Oh well, tantrums won't get me them. If I do get another guitar, it will be an SG. That's what my wife wants. I don't think she'll go for the P-90s. She has seen Angus!
Ken, if you really want an SG with P-90's, why not get the Mrs. all hopped up on some old Who records? Pete played a P-90 loaded SG during the "Live At Leeds" period. In fact, the recent Gibson signature model was based on that guitar (which I haven't played). As a compromise, maybe you could wear some of those little short pants that Angus sports, and she'd be cool with the P-90's... Anyway, check out Glorbz' "P-90" thread @ Quest For Tone for more scoopage on the subject.
Posts: 3385 | Location: Atlanta, Ga | Registered: December 25, 2001
I just picked up an old (1979) Les Paul Pro last night, equipped with soapbar P-90's. I used it at band practice last night. What a gem! This thing really sounds great. I've got a Gibson SG Supreme with P-90A's and have had mixed feelings about the sound. For some reason, the old LP rocks. So, I guess it also depends on the instrument itself as to the tonality of P-90 pickups.
Posts: 617 | Location: Santa Rosa, Ca, USA | Registered: February 20, 2002
Hi Corleone, My wife's old brother played Live at Leeds all the time. Her younger brother is the dude I play the coffee shops with. He is also way into Pete. These brothers are like bookends. Who posters and records and song books. I also loved that album. Without any knowledge, I always thought Pete played a Rick for that concert. This is too cool. Todd Rundgren somehow picked up Eric Clapton's painted SG, and that's another reason she loves SGs. We've seen Todd play lead guitar many, many times. But she just told me we can keep the Les Pauls, her and 'David' (Gilmour) are Strat guys, with maybe an occasional Tele thrown in. (This is the first time she mentioned Tele, hmmmmm.)
Posts: 646 | Location: Berwyn, IL | Registered: December 25, 2001
Just for everyone's info on single coil pickup guitars, I opened up the control cavity of my Gibson SG Supreme w/P90's last night. (I'm thinking about putting in some DiMarzio DLX pickups for fun). I found that the cavity cover has a built-in coil (the same size as the coil in the P90 pickup) wired to the pickup cables!
I called Gibson and asked about this. The tech had no idea what I was talking about. He went and checked and said that it is a 'hum-cancelling' coil. And it is peculiar to this particular model of SG Supreme! Interesting. I asked what I should do as far as dropping the new humbucking pickups in and he told me to just unhook the extra coil from the circuit. Has anyone ever heard of or seen this hum-cancelling technique used on a guitar before?
Posts: 617 | Location: Santa Rosa, Ca, USA | Registered: February 20, 2002
You might want to post on teh ampage "guitar tech" forum also if you haven't already some guys there probably can give you some reason as to why it works and how it works.
Yes, I've heard of it. Gibson brought it back most recently in their Blueshawk guitars. Personally, I was a little disappointed. Gibson makes a cool stacked humbucker similar to the P-90's called a P-100. Check the Gibson site.
Well, I replaced the P90's in the Gibson SG Supreme with the DiMarzio DLX Plus (DP154 & 162) pickups over the weekend. Taking out the P90's, I discovered that the neck pickup sure enough was a single-coil model. That's why there was an extra coil glued to the control cavity cover (it was wired to the neck pickup). Upon removing the bridge pickup, I noticed that it had 4-wires (red,green,blk,wht). Well, it was a stacked dual-coil pickup, not a true P90. I was under the impression from the advertising for this instrument that it was a true P90 guitar. Apparently that was not so. Maybe that's one of the reason's the tone was just not happening for me. I love the instrument itself; the way it looks and plays, just the tone was iffy. The '79 Les Paul Pro I picked up a couple of weeks ago has a killer tone to it (it is equipped with real P90's!), so I'm keeping it for that sound.
I haven't had a chance to play the new DLX SG yet. I'm trying it out tonight. I'll report back on how these pickups do with this guitar.
Posts: 617 | Location: Santa Rosa, Ca, USA | Registered: February 20, 2002
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quote:Originally posted by mesadude: Well, I replaced the P90's in the Gibson SG Supreme with the DiMarzio DLX Plus (DP154 & 162) pickups over the weekend. Taking out the P90's, I discovered that the neck pickup sure enough was a single-coil model. That's why there was an extra coil glued to the control cavity cover (it was wired to the neck pickup). Upon removing the bridge pickup, I noticed that it had 4-wires (red,green,blk,wht). Well, it was a stacked dual-coil pickup, not a true P90. I was under the impression from the advertising for this instrument that it was a true P90 guitar. Apparently that was not so. Maybe that's one of the reason's the tone was just not happening for me. I love the instrument itself; the way it looks and plays, just the tone was iffy. The '79 Les Paul Pro I picked up a couple of weeks ago has a killer tone to it (it is equipped with real P90's!), so I'm keeping it for that sound.
I haven't had a chance to play the new DLX SG yet. I'm trying it out tonight. I'll report back on how these pickups do with this guitar.
Well, the DLX Plus pickups are great!! They have a lot of sustain. Now this guitar is really singing. They also look pretty cool in the guitar. The original pickups were black with gold screws. These are black with 2-rows of chrome screws each and look great in the SG Supreme.
Posts: 617 | Location: Santa Rosa, Ca, USA | Registered: February 20, 2002
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