After modding a korean squire with PAF in neck, started to build my own guitars, mostly reclaimed pine, and have now a double P90’s, mostly sort of Gibson sounding, as well as one with P90 in neck, and alnico 5 in bridge. Interesting fuller sounds out of them indeed, great guitars!
@DevinSpagnola You should get away with leaving the existing 250k pots but I did go 500k in this instance as I wanted more clarity for the P90. They do prefer 500k. Good luck
I have a 93 mexican telecaster with the single coils. I love it, but the neck pickup not as much. It's the o sound it gives off at higher frets on higher strings. I don't plan on changing the guitar because it was my first and I love it, but I plan on getting another and putting a p90 in it. It feels like they would blend together a bit better in the middle position with the clarity of the p90 rounding out the twang of the single coil a little bit.
Trick is matching the bridge pickup output. Roughly, considering same magnet types and wire gauge in the coils, about 20% more d.c. resistance on the bridge than the P90 neck. I've got a staple P90 in the neck at about 8.6K, I came up on 3 contenders for the bridge: SD Quarter pound, Fender Twisted Tele and the cheapest Fender Tele set, the Deluxe Drive. Hated the Q.P., Twisted was too mid heavy, Deluxe in a plastic bobbin with no baseplate won the day, total upset. Scooped mids, doesn't get swamped by the P90 in center position. And ou can still tell it'sTele
Nice comparison, I've been really curious to know how a P90 in the neck would sound. Do you notice a big volume difference when switching pickupd? How's the middle position?
There is more push from the extra winds in a P90 so balancing them requires raising or lowering each pickup to your taste. My bridge pickups are more in the hot side in any case (Iron Gear Steel Foundry) so they match up great. Middle position is plumby as normal 😎🤟👍
@@Michaelangelokowski It's the stock pickups that come with the Gibson Tribute series, so I don't really know. However, I finally managed to get a balanced sound out of it: I adjusted the pole pieces height individually so that the high E, B and G strings are much more closer to the magnets. It's sounding great now :)
@@Michaelangelokowski With the rail design you won't get adjustable pole pieces, but that might not be a problem at all, I guess Seymour Duncan have their pickups balanced from factory... unlike Gibson 😂
@BluesBrogio yeah seymour duncan typically has their things in line. Plus, I could always adjust the angle of the pickup with the height screws if need be. I have a Tele with 48's-11's but I plan on the next one being a 42-9 set guitar.
@@adey_baby That is amazing! I asked because some chinese pickups are microphonic, and on a video talking about chinese pickups (in a good way) they didn't mention if Oripure pickups were microphonic sorry the weird question lol
@@ricardog.s2505 I stumbled across this brand of Oripure by accident but now they are my go-to for a wide range of pickup types. All waxed potted, great sound and very affordable. Their cheaper brand, Fleor, are awesome too!
@@adey_baby Unfortunately no I have not... Its something I am considering though, I feel like the pickups would match well when blended and obviously all the good from them individually..
@@shaadydog1 I had the 3 pickup Chinese Fender Tele with a humbucker in the bridge and a stat middle and a Tele neck but never gelled with it. Not really in to the quack sound although I have a modded Yamaha PAC212VFM if I ever need it! Lol
You literally buy a Tele for the unique bridge / neck lipstick pickup. P90's can go in any guitar you have lying around. Dont ruin your Telecaster with mods. The best thing about a Telecaster is it being a Tele. If you want the polar opposite, get an SG and a Tele and then just be happy.
