P-90 Pots
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P-90 Pots
Am considering throwing a P-90 of some sort into my FrankenStrat, and I realise I have no idea if they are normally paired with a 250k or 500k pot. Or does it not even matter?
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Re: P-90 Pots
I use 500's with mine
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Re: P-90 Pots
I always use 500k for tone, you can always back it off a bit. I would try 500 for volume and if you find it too spikey then solder a 510k resistor across the outer terminals of vol the pot.
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Re: P-90 Pots
I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.
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Re: P-90 Pots
I did that with a Strat upgrade recently. Not sure I could tell the difference and it made the job more fiddly (I start out with the best of intentions but end up melting something).Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.
Often thought about a Strat with three P90s. Bet that'd be cool.
Re: P-90 Pots
I saw a photo somewhere a while ago of Eddie Van Halen playing a Tele with what appeared to be 3 P90's.Molly wrote:I did that with a Strat upgrade recently. Not sure I could tell the difference and it made the job more fiddly (I start out with the best of intentions but end up melting something).Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.
Often thought about a Strat with three P90s. Bet that'd be cool.
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Re: P-90 Pots
I had them on a guitar for several years. Was happy with them but found I mostly just used the P90 so I changed to them haha!Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.
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The P-Rails do a lot of tones, but none of them wellRichy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.
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Re: P-90 Pots
This.jeremyb wrote:The P-Rails do a lot of tones, but none of them wellRichy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.
500k pots for me too, I like to tame the kerrrang with the tone pot
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Re: P-90 Pots
500k generally gives up a bit more top end.. If you are looking for a non Gibson p90 the Harmonic Design made versions are very cool.. I put a hum sized model in a crappy 90 epi Coronet that I use for slide and it sounds killer..
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Re: P-90 Pots
And welcome Mr W!
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