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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: TwilightOdyssey on February 02, 2006, 04:02:45 PM

Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 02, 2006, 04:02:45 PM: PhilKing brought his Pig-90 loaded Les Paul Jr by last night. Guitar and pickup both sounded monstrous. There is a deliciously nasty grind when you play slower licks, perfect 4th double stops sounded particularily grindful, pinch harmonics were really THICK sounding.

Amp was a Mesa Dual Rec 2x12 combo (12AT7s, EL34s, SS rectifier used) and an HBE Big D Overdrive.
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Ratrod on February 02, 2006, 04:47:08 PM: Don't tell me you're beginning to fall for Les Pauls and P90's. :lol:

Did anyone record it?
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 02, 2006, 04:55:29 PM: I was going to film a quick video clip, but ... the strings were new and kept slipping out of tune, and I wasn't feeling particularily ambitious.
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Davey on February 02, 2006, 05:49:39 PM: Quote from: TwilightOdyssey
I was going to film a quick video clip, but ... the strings were new and kept slipping out of tune, and I wasn't feeling particularily ambitious.

damn.. we could have blackmailed you with it
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Ratrod on February 02, 2006, 05:56:52 PM: It sounds a bit like a racing driver excuse. :wink:

I'd love to hear a pig90 being put thru it's paces.

Any chance of clips in the future? Ben? Phil? Anyone?
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Brow on February 03, 2006, 12:25:28 AM: Quote from: TwilightOdyssey
I was going to film a quick video clip, but ... the strings were new and kept slipping out of tune, and I wasn't feeling particularily ambitious.

I know you secretly loved playing the LP, you just don't want to admit it :wink:

Come over to the darkside :twisted:
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Git-art-ist on February 03, 2006, 01:52:48 AM: Quote from: TwilightOdyssey
I was going to film a quick video clip, but ... the strings were new and kept slipping out of tune, and I wasn't feeling particularily ambitious.

do you strecth your strings? it helps alot.
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: PhilKing on February 03, 2006, 12:51:24 PM: It really wasn't the strings slipping so much as the action being quite high which caused the guitar to go out of tune as you went up the neck. This was because I had to raise it for the Pig 90. I have now got some flat P-90 metal covers and will change it and bring the action down a lot. Then we can record some stuff.
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 04, 2006, 02:52:10 AM: Phil's original 1960 Les Paul Jr ... not the one with the Pig 90, but a different one.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/LPJr1.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/LPJr2.jpg)
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Davey on February 04, 2006, 10:54:43 AM: HA!

got you!
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: PhilKing on February 05, 2006, 01:28:13 PM: I'm taking an SG Junior in next week, and the updated junior with the Pig-90. Perhaps I'll also take in the special and the 71 Goldtop - just to really get Ben into P-90's and Gibsons :lol:
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: Ratrod on February 05, 2006, 04:04:00 PM: Quote from: PhilKing
I'm taking an SG Junior in next week, and the updated junior with the Pig-90. Perhaps I'll also take in the special and the 71 Goldtop - just to really get Ben into P-90's and Gibsons :lol:

You devil. :lol:
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: headtheball on February 13, 2006, 05:45:56 PM: So, the pig 90...Would it be absolutely ridiculous to replace my existing bkp-90 bridge pickup on my eggle wave with one? Would this cause horrible, horrible things to happen with the hollow body?
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: jt on February 13, 2006, 05:56:49 PM: :D Bugger !! i was looking forward to a clip as well !

:D 8)
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: The amazing Phil on February 13, 2006, 07:15:01 PM: Quote from: Ratrod
Quote from: PhilKing
I'm taking an SG Junior in next week, and the updated junior with the Pig-90. Perhaps I'll also take in the special and the 71 Goldtop - just to really get Ben into P-90's and Gibsons :lol:

You devil. :lol:

Yeah, but you should also remember after the mid-sixties P-90s on SG Juniors were mounted to the scratch plate somehow.
Title: PIG-90: Rocketh HARD
Post by: PhilKing on February 13, 2006, 07:25:28 PM: My SG junior is a 64, pickup is still in the wood just like on the LP's. The Special and the Goldtop have soapbars, so they just have screws into the body.