Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Other Stuff => Guitars => Topic started by: shortfuse on February 13, 2014, 09:12:35 am
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Anyone else ever try these? Just installed a set in one of my guitars that had P-90's in it. I used the triple shot rings so I could switch from humbucking in or out of phase to single rail or P-90 setting on the fly or very easily.
Overall I am kinda disappointing. I find them to be very thin sounding which is surprising as all the duncan pickups I have tried usually sound good overall. The humbucking setting and single coil rail setting are ok but the P-90 setting is far from a real P-90 sound. As I just replaced a fralin and a lollar P-90 with these. This guitar sounds great with humbuckers I will probably just go back to that with coil split capabilities, sounded good with the P-90's but was a 1 trick pony. I do like the Triple shots but don't know the longevity of using them live where they will get sweat on them, seem kinda delicate with the little switches exposed. I will post some pic's later tonight.
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Don't like em. They don't catch the best parts of anything. Boring sounding.
Gabriel
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I tried a set for a while, but will be putting them up for sale. I would not say they suck, but I found another pickup I enjoy more (DiMarzio Bluesbucker).
I wired them up with a 4 position rotary switch for each pickup
The P90 coil I really liked. Whether it is a "real" P90 sound or not, I can't say, as I have not had a real P90 guitar for a long time.
So you've got that sound, and a fairly hot humbucker sound, and the rail sound that gets you in the ballpark of a telecaster or stratocaster sound. You are probably going to want to bring up the amp volume and tweak the amp tone controls when changing to the fender type sound
I can see where somebody in a band covering a range of styles would find it a good way to get 3 distinct sounds without changing guitars.