Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: gizmi7 on September 05, 2014, 07:06:19 PM

Title: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: gizmi7 on September 05, 2014, 07:06:19 PM

Hey guys, it's been quite long since I posted here, since then I entered into the BKP users family by ordering a Skervesen with Nailbomb/VHII combo in it :) But this is not the reason of me creating this topic

I just ordered a Fender Modern Player Jag and I want to put some BKPs in it - which would you recommend? I mostly want to get the early Black Sabbath Tone on my Blackstar HT-5 (will i tune it to C# - it depends on how will the short scale handle it), but it would be cool if it would handle some other, less gainy stuff. My first idea was Warpig but I know that the humbucker version is very dark sounding and I'm afraid it will sound dull in this wood combination (full mahogany with rosewood fingerboard).
Cheers

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: Telerocker on September 05, 2014, 07:31:01 PM

Mississippi Queen will get you there.

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: gizmi7 on September 05, 2014, 07:42:12 PM

Isn't Mississipi Queen humb sized? These fenders have p90 pickups.

(http://www.coda-music.com/images/modern-player-jag-red.JPG)

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: gwEm on September 05, 2014, 07:48:11 PM

BKP used to do a hotter wound BKP-92 which I always thought nailed the Iommi tone. Not sure about current range. The Nantucket looks like a good choice.

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: Telerocker on September 05, 2014, 09:44:01 PM

Yeah, sorry, I would get the Nantucket.

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: Dave Sloven on September 06, 2014, 02:02:51 AM

You could also think about a Nantucket in the neck and a Pig-90 in the bridge, and just use a volume pedal to back it off as needed.

As long as your guitar is not much darker than an SG you should be fine with a Pig-90.  Apparently it is like a super Nantucket, rather than being modern sounding like a Supermassive.  Although I have heard a clip which got decent Iommi sounds out of Supermassives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pG2Rg4duI

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on September 06, 2014, 12:53:57 PM

+1 for the nantucket being a great option.

What about a Pig90 which is supposed to be a Warpig in a P90
Surely that would have a lot of Iommi vie about it

They do both neck and bridge versions

https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=p90s&sub=p90s&pickup=pig_90 (https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=p90s&sub=p90s&pickup=pig_90)

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: gizmi7 on September 06, 2014, 05:12:19 PM

WOW I fell in love with that Supermassives demo, they sound awesome here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0deikFo68ro
I think I'll go with them or Nuntuckets, Warpigs may be little too hot (15 kiloohms on neck is probably too much for me)

Title: Re: Iommi sound - p90 pickups for Fender Modern Player Jaguar
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on September 06, 2014, 07:40:02 PM

Don't be thrown by the 15k reading - it's 45 gauge wire so the resistance is more but not so with the output
But supermassive are lovely too!