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Post by zontar on Feb 23, 2021 7:18:49 GMT
On Gibson Les Pauls I like them all. I mostly have used humbuckers. And one of those humbuckers has been the Seymour Duncan P-Rail--combining a Hit rail single coil with a P-90. So I get three different sounds--and they all sound great to me--but one will often suit a song better than the others. |
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 24, 2021 9:21:46 GMT
I like humbuckers & P90s, but not really the mini humbuckers. I have tried them on someone's guitar a couple of times but never owned one.
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Post by infant on Feb 24, 2021 14:50:01 GMT
I played single coils for 20 years before I got my first humbucker guitar and then almost another 20 before getting my first P90 equipped guitar.
I really like single coils as they are clean and clear sounding. Through a Fender amp, they sparkle. Although they don’t have a lot of grit to them, there are some aftermarket ones that can give you grit but you lose some clarity. I find that I can get exactly what I need with my Tele and Deluxe reverb.
My ES137 has ‘57 Classic buckers in it and they are much warmer than the single coils. They do clean very well but are not as clear. However, they can easily drive an amp into much heavier overdrive than a single but again, clarity gets lost.
My Melody Maker came with P90s. I find them to be the rude stepbrother of both the SC and HB. They can be fairly clean and sparkly but when you dig in, they can snarl and show teeth. They are great for straight R&R. I tend to use my MM for gigs that are R&R all night long.
So preference wise, it all depends on what I’m playing but I still like single coils because they don’t mask anything.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 24, 2021 22:41:09 GMT
I can't answer in the context of a Les Paul, but I am a big fan of P-90's. Not such a big fan of humbuckers
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Post by zontar on Feb 25, 2021 5:27:44 GMT
I thought I had posted a video with that first post--that makes it more specific to Les Pauls (And I guess by extension: SGs, Flying Vs, Explorers, etc.)
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Post by Sgt Rock on Feb 25, 2021 5:37:26 GMT
my '75 Les Paul Deluxe has mini-humbuckers and I love it. my '59 Gretsch has a FilterTron pickup which is also a humbucking style pickup. I never did warm up to the single coil pickups on my Squiers. so, I sold them both. however, my 2006 Duo Jet(the green one,Rob) has DynaSonic pickups. they're close to the p90 style. they do have a bite. long story short, I'm not a single coil guitar player.
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Post by zontar on Feb 25, 2021 5:48:06 GMT
my '75 Les Paul Deluxe has mini-humbuckers and I love it. my '59 Gretsch has a FilterTron pickup which is also a humbucking style pickup. I never did warm up to the single coil pickups on my Squiers. so, I sold them both. however, my 2006 Duo Jet(the green one,Rob) has DynaSonic pickups. they're close to the p90 style. they do have a bite. long story short, I'm not a single coil guitar player. I'm more hum bucker than single coil--but I like both-- And another shout out for the P-Rail. If you've never tried one and see a P-Rail equipped guitar--give it a shot |
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Post by infant on Feb 25, 2021 14:23:56 GMT
my '75 Les Paul Deluxe has mini-humbuckers and I love it. my '59 Gretsch has a FilterTron pickup which is also a humbucking style pickup. I never did warm up to the single coil pickups on my Squiers. so, I sold them both. however, my 2006 Duo Jet(the green one,Rob) has DynaSonic pickups. they're close to the p90 style. they do have a bite. long story short, I'm not a single coil guitar player. A short while after I bought my Melody Maker, I thought about replacing the P90s with mini humbuckers as I found them much noisier when it came to 60 cycle hum compared to my regular Tele single coils. Around the same time, my bass player bought a Electro Harmonics Hum Debugger and saw what it did for both his Rickenbacker and Jazz basses. So I went out and bought one myself that I bring to gigs whenever I use any of my single coil guitars. Your Cadillac Green Duo Jet with the gold hardware is a gorgeous guitar. |
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 25, 2021 16:25:07 GMT
my '75 Les Paul Deluxe has mini-humbuckers and I love it. my '59 Gretsch has a FilterTron pickup which is also a humbucking style pickup. I never did warm up to the single coil pickups on my Squiers. so, I sold them both. however, my 2006 Duo Jet(the green one,Rob) has DynaSonic pickups. they're close to the p90 style. they do have a bite. long story short, I'm not a single coil guitar player. A short while after I bought my Melody Maker, I thought about replacing the P90s with mini humbuckers as I found them much noisier when it came to 60 cycle hum compared to my regular Tele single coils. Around the same time, my bass player bought a Electro Harmonics Hum Debugger and saw what it did for both his Rickenbacker and Jazz basses. So I went out and bought one myself that I bring to gigs whenever I use any of my single coil guitars. Your Cadillac Green Duo Jet with the gold hardware is a gorgeous guitar. Rob met many people who worry about the hum on P90s, but realistically you never notice at gig volumes. What I used to do is just lower the volume between songs. Audience certainly never notice |
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Post by infant on Feb 25, 2021 17:53:43 GMT
A short while after I bought my Melody Maker, I thought about replacing the P90s with mini humbuckers as I found them much noisier when it came to 60 cycle hum compared to my regular Tele single coils. Around the same time, my bass player bought a Electro Harmonics Hum Debugger and saw what it did for both his Rickenbacker and Jazz basses. So I went out and bought one myself that I bring to gigs whenever I use any of my single coil guitars. Your Cadillac Green Duo Jet with the gold hardware is a gorgeous guitar. Rob met many people who worry about the hum on P90s, but realistically you never notice at gig volumes. What I used to do is just lower the volume between songs. Audience certainly never notice John, I’ve used single coils for 46 years and I found most venues created some hum and I could live with that. I’ve just had a few problems at some venues but with the Hum Debugger, I have no more problems at those places. |
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 25, 2021 17:58:38 GMT
A short while after I bought my Melody Maker, I thought about replacing the P90s with mini humbuckers as I found them much noisier when it came to 60 cycle hum compared to my regular Tele single coils. Around the same time, my bass player bought a Electro Harmonics Hum Debugger and saw what it did for both his Rickenbacker and Jazz basses. So I went out and bought one myself that I bring to gigs whenever I use any of my single coil guitars. Your Cadillac Green Duo Jet with the gold hardware is a gorgeous guitar. Rob met many people who worry about the hum on P90s, but realistically you never notice at gig volumes. What I used to do is just lower the volume between songs. Audience certainly never notice I never had an audience complain but I did have someone once give me a hard time about hum from the Telecaster with the '52 pickups. Admittedly the hum was pretty loud, so after that I tended to keep my hands over the pickups muting the strings when I wasn't playing. |
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Post by Sinster on Feb 25, 2021 21:49:43 GMT
I like them all  My BFG has a P90 in neck and Humbucker in bridge. So I took my 50's Tribute and wound a P90 for the bridge and a mini for the neck.. opposite of my BFG. |
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Post by zontar on Feb 26, 2021 19:58:34 GMT
P90 in the neck & humbucker in the bridge is a nice combo
Which I have via the PRail in my LP Copy
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Post by markr on Dec 4, 2021 13:13:43 GMT
On Gibson Les Pauls I like them all. I mostly have used humbuckers. And one of those humbuckers has been the Seymour Duncan P-Rail--combining a Hit rail single coil with a P-90. So I get three different sounds--and they all sound great to me--but one will often suit a song better than the others. I just picked up a pai of P-Rails and I am looking for suggestions on which guitar, configuration, wiring and switches. These pups really excite me with possibilities. I do not own a Tele so I am thinking this guitar might be cool! |
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Post by Sinster on Dec 6, 2021 16:21:09 GMT
You can purchase pickup rings for the P-Rails that allow you to get all kinds of combo's.
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Post by markr on Dec 6, 2021 21:27:01 GMT
You can purchase pickup rings for the P-Rails that allow you to get all kinds of combo's.
I have seen those, lots of negative reviews on durability. Think I might go push pull pots? |
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Post by zontar on Dec 10, 2021 3:21:27 GMT
You can purchase pickup rings for the P-Rails that allow you to get all kinds of combo's.
I was going to mention those. Now I don't have to I considered them, but I was trying to keep costs down, so I used mini toggles I already had so I could get Rail/P90/both in series (Humbucker) I do like parallel as well. and the JB in the bridge of that same guitar is series/parallel/split Actually the Rail & Split JB together is a cool sound. But I mostly use the P-90 setting on the neck. |
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Post by zontar on Dec 10, 2021 3:24:10 GMT
You can purchase pickup rings for the P-Rails that allow you to get all kinds of combo's.
I have seen those, lots of negative reviews on durability. Think I might go push pull pots? I've heard lots of great reviews on them, but who knows? Some reviews--both good & bad ar fake-or by people who don't want to admit they bought crap, or from people upset it didn't something it wasn't intended to do. As for push pull--that only gives you two options, and to fully enjoy a P-Rail you need Rail, P-90 & humbucker (Series) But I guess if there's a way to use volume & tone push-pulls to get at least those three & maybe parallel as well? |
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