Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: jt on October 10, 2006, 12:09:22 AM
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:D Between a P90 & a single coil ?
:D 8)
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Wickipedia sez:
The P-90 is very popular but is quite different to the single coils of the Fender design. These pickups have a large flat coil with adjustable steel screws as pole pieces, and a pair of flat alnico bar magnets lying under the coil bobbin. The adjustable screws collect and conduct the magnetism to the strings. The P-90's sound has elements of both the standard Gibson humbucker and a Fender single coil.
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And, at the risk of stating the obvious, the P90 is a single-coil. Just a different type of single-coil from the Fender variety.
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:D I was just wondering is all.
Logic would suggest there wasn`t any difference, but if anybody would no if there was a difference i thought it would be you guys, so i asked.
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Yeah sorry, didn't mean to be a smartarse. P90s are great - they're like the missing link between Fender single-coils and Gibson humbuckers.
They have one coil like a Fender pickup, but they "hear" more of the string because the coil is shallow-and-wide rather than tall-and-narrow, and the magnetic structure is like a humbucker - bar magnets and steel screw polepieces rather than individual Alnico-magnet poles like Fender pickups.
And then you get those budget Strat copies where the pickups are almost like a cross between a Fender pickup and a P90 - with steel rod polepieces and a bar magnet along the bottom of the pickup. There's a blues player (can't remember if it's Ronnie Earl or Duke Robillard) who likes them better than proper Strat pickups because they sound a bit fatter and less "plucky".