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MontyW

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P90 and HB advice
« on: May 29, 2015, 03:35:02 PM »
I love my BKPs and I'd like to play around with an old Strat and put in a P90 neck and HB bridge.  I got to play a Strat with a Seymour Duncan SP90-1 soap bar in the neck and a 59 HB in the bridge.  I particularly liked the SP90-1.

So, which BKPs are close to the SP90-1 and the 59?

Cheers.

MontyW

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2015, 06:59:35 PM »
Anyone advise me on this?

Kiichi

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2015, 08:19:10 PM »
IŽd like to comment, but I have no bloody clue about those Duncans, sorry.
BKPs in use: 10th set / RY set / Holy Diver b, Emerald n / Crawler bridge, Slowhand mid MQ neck/ Manhattan n
On the sidelines: Stockholm b / Suppermassive n, Mule n, AM set, IT mid

MontyW

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 08:30:58 PM »
LOL

The sp90 is described as:  Faithful recreation of the 1946 Gibsonź single-coil and the 59 as a late 50's P.A.F.-type humbucker.  Does that help?

Kiichi

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2015, 10:14:14 PM »
Well, the Mule is nailing all things 59 HB. The gold standard PAF tone. Alternatives depending on what you want is the rest of the low output range. They all have something else going for them. Really depends on what kind of sound you want. Mule for 59 is always good though.

Did not see what kind of magnet the sp90 uses, but all three of the more vintage BKP P90s, Half Note, Blue Note, and Nantucket, are very classic sounds. They vary in magnet and wind, and therefore also application though.
The Half Note is super natural and sweet (like insanely so) and loves to play jazz and blues. I also like to take it higher, but it has a very specific character then, a bit of 70s psychedelic. For clean to low gain it is insane.
The Blue Note is a step up. Little more edges, which makes it rock easier. Blues and classic rock no issue and IŽd be surprised if it could not do proper hardrock too.
The Nantucket is perhaps the gold standard all in all P90. From clean to blues to even some kinds of metal, all done with classic flavor. Has more cut, agression, etc than the other two though.

The output also increases in that order. The first two should definetly work with the Mule for example, but the Nantucket might not be optimal if you want the bridge to be higher output than the neck, as it should be equal or slight tad higher I recon, but am not sure. Again, I did not see any specs for the Sp90, but I would not be shocked if the Nantucket is closest as Duncans tend to be a bit hotter and such than BKPs, otherwise I would imagine the Bluenote to be good. However, if I apply this logic to the 59er too you could go with the Abraxas, a beefed up Mule, which still is rather vintage.

So far for this post, I donŽt want to create the uber wall.
BKPs in use: 10th set / RY set / Holy Diver b, Emerald n / Crawler bridge, Slowhand mid MQ neck/ Manhattan n
On the sidelines: Stockholm b / Suppermassive n, Mule n, AM set, IT mid

Telerocker

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2015, 12:18:46 AM »
The Nantucket-neck might overpower the Mule-bridge. If you want a Mule-bridge (which is a great PAF 59-replica), I would go Bluenote in the neck, which in imho would be a very good opensounding dynamic vintage-combo.

Yet, everything depends on how bright/dark your strat is. An alternative, like Kiichi says, is an Abraxas-bridge with a Nantucket-neck or a Crawler-bridge/Nantucket-neck.
I have a Crawler in my swampashstrat. It's powerful and beefy, but not superhot. Mediumoutput I would say. Cleans up great (to nice sparkly tones) and splits well to a nearly tele-esque tone.
« Last Edit: June 03, 2015, 12:22:25 AM by Telerocker »
Mules, VHII, Crawler, MM's, IT's, BG50's.

metale

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2015, 08:47:23 AM »
I agree with not going Mule, because I had a neck Mississipi Queen (kind of a HSP90 Nantucket, I think) with a bridge Black Dog, and the MQ overpowered the Black Dog. I shall try it with my bridge Abraxas sometime in the future.
Black Dog (b), Abraxas (b), The Mule (n), Mississippi Queen (n), Trilogy Suite (m)

Had: Riff Raff 7 (b), Painkiller 8 (b)

MontyW

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Re: P90 and HB advice
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2015, 10:28:15 AM »
Thanks - lots of good info here for me to consider... probably looking towards the Crawler bridge and Nantucket neck :-)

Cheers.