Victory Pete
Banned
Does anyone have any experience with these pickups? How would you compare them to Humbuckers?
VP
VP
JCH
El Nacho
You can't compare them to humbuckers. What they are is a P-90 type pickup that is built to fit in a humbucker rout.
IMO they don't sound as good as a real P-90. Either that or they don't imitate it very well. A normal P-90 has +/- 10k turns of AWG42 wire on a 1/4" tall bobbin. That's impossible to fit in a HB rout.
To compensate they change the shape of the coil. Therefore it's difficult to imitate a P-90 tone.
A good comparison of what I mean would be a Jazzmaster pickup vs. a Strat.
Milnoque
Resident Curmudgeon
I've never tried the p-94 but I expect it's a great sounding pickup.
When I needed to go from humbuckers to single coils in my guitar I ended up getting Fralin p-92s. I have been very happy with them. They're 2 coils configured like a p-bass pickup so they're hum cancelling without giving up the single coil sparkle. They're voiced to sound like p-90s but I'd say they're a little brighter. They'll still drive your amp nicely.
http://www.fralinpickups.com/humbuckers.asp#top
Fralin is a great company do work with.
When I needed to go from humbuckers to single coils in my guitar I ended up getting Fralin p-92s. I have been very happy with them. They're 2 coils configured like a p-bass pickup so they're hum cancelling without giving up the single coil sparkle. They're voiced to sound like p-90s but I'd say they're a little brighter. They'll still drive your amp nicely.
http://www.fralinpickups.com/humbuckers.asp#top
Fralin is a great company do work with.