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riffpowers

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Help!Need phatter warmer HB sized P90 for les paul custom
« on: July 08, 2006, 07:05:03 PM »
I wasn't happy with the 498's in my LP custom, and being a P90 man I swapped em for a set of Kent Armstrong HB sized P90's, they're the 14k version.They were a definate improvement on the HB's I took out, but there's still room for improvement.
THey sound nice n crunchy, but I could do with a phatter bassier sound, the KA's sound a bit thin and crunchy.I'm looking for a warmer phatter bassier sound.Maybe the KA's would sound better in a different guitar, but in the custom they sound too trebley/upper middy and not warm and phat enough.The SD custom P90 in my hamer sound smuch better, as do the gibson P100's in my LP special.
What would teh MQ's sound like in comparison??Are they wramer phatter and bassier??Anyone tried em in a les paul custom??
Oh and I'm a bareknuckle virgin!!

Ratrod

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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2006, 07:58:49 PM »
The MQ's I have sound fat enough to me. They are the standard wind. The neck has an AIV and the bridge an AV magnet.
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Help!Need phatter warmer HB sized P90 for les paul custom
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2006, 08:26:41 PM »
The Armstrong humbucker size P90s aren't actually P90s inside which is where the problem comes-there's 2 magnets sure enough but there's just a humbucker coil sat ontop!
The tone of a P90 comes very much from the short/squat P90 coil which the MQ has-in fact the MQ is a stock P90 fitted onto a specially modded humbucker baseplate.The tone certainly is fat but articulate too.
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riffpowers

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Help!Need phatter warmer HB sized P90 for les paul custom
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2006, 09:07:13 PM »
Cool!!
So anyone know how they'd sound in an LP custom???My other P90 guitars are all mahogany with rosewood boards, so the differenet construction and sound of the custom make it hard to compare.
Sludgy rock plugged into a matamp is what I play, so I'm not looking for trebley bite here, its all about warm fat sludgy tone!!

Elliot

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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2006, 11:36:06 PM »
Cant help with a LP custom - bit 'warm fat articulate'  is the definition of MQ
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2006, 09:34:31 AM »
Hi Riff - nice to see you back in the BKP forum again.

Although I have a few different sets of BKPs and think they are better than anything else I've used previously, I'm not sure if they are right for you after following your posts on the Matamp forum and listening to the Badfuzz clips. I haven't tried the Mississippi Queen but I would imagine the online shop description of "excellent definition and presense" (which I think can be applied to most BKPs) is pretty accurate but is not particularly what you are looking for.
It may well be that the MQ could do a sludgier,bassier sound with your Matamp setup but I would phone or PM Tim and tell him exactly what you are looking for before you consider parting with any money - he might be able to do a special MQ wind for you.
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Help!Need phatter warmer HB sized P90 for les paul custom
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2006, 10:21:21 AM »
Pig'90?