I'm really agonizing over this!!
I have 3 guitars that need new P90 pickups.
The tone I like is that extra fat and warm dirty sound, sorta like a sludge rock leslie west.So it needs to be fat and warm and dirty with plenty of bottom end,but not muddy, raunchy too, brings out dynamics, but I don't need a clear trebley pickup, in fact I think all stock P90s can be a bit trebley and not fat enough for me.These are getting plugged into various matamps.(with the treble on 0!!)I also (like most jr players) ride the vol and tone controls on the guitar for different sounds, so I'd need a pickup that responds well to that.
The first is a hamer korina Jr.Its a corking guitar, but the airy cutting nature of korina has made the stock SD p90 a bit harsh and not fat enough.A bit too "angus young" you might say.The treble is impossible to dial out.Although it is nice and rauncy, its got no bottom end meat to it.
A much fatter warmer pickup would compliment the guitar much better.
Next up is a Gordon Smith GS1.This is a guitar I'm going to order, but I want to provide my own pickup.Its mahogany, single cutaway, lp jr style guitar.Again I want a pickup that has a nice warm meaty sludgey dirty bluesy sound.
Finally my Gibson les Paul Custom.This is quiet a hard and heavy sounding guitar, so again it needs something that will watm up that hard sound without going all thin and over crunchy.MQ's any good for this???
So BKP P90 owners, I need your help here.
What would be really helpful is if you could tell me what kind of sound these pickups make in your guitar, even better if you can compare it to a normal average stock p90.
Even better if you've installed some in a similar guitar, and can tell me what they sound like and if its the kind of tone I'd like.
