Kiwi made and incredible quality, have Mat's kits in my tele and Strat!!IMOCD wrote:This would be my choice personally. Love how you can swap pups in and out without soldering. Great company to deal with too.HackSaw wrote:Good a thread as any to ask my question. I have the 2019 SG special, P90’s. Has the pcb wiring thing, which I’ve no doubt I wouldn’t even know if I didn’t open it up. However now I know, and I don’t like it! Give me old school (esp 50s wiring). I’ll go for a kit though given my skills with a soldering iron. How does this look?
https://jacksonelectronicluthier.com/sg ... 22uf-caps/
https://tonelounge.co.nz/traditional-vi ... -les-paul/
Learn me on P-90 Pickups
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Re: Learn me on P-90 Pickups
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
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Apparently not. Also there are a number of variants hence why Matt hasnt produced an sg version..HackSaw wrote:Are the hole routings the same distance apart on LP as on SG?
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Unfortunately not.HackSaw wrote:Are the hole routings the same distance apart on LP as on SG?
Infact we found the hole spacing on SGs dosent have the same spacing as other SGs which is why we do not offer an option for them.
We hope do do something that will work with just about anything later this year.
PCBs kill the Toanz though so I wouldnt bother
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Thanks Matt! Yeah I don't subscribe to that necessarily, but do want the 50s wiring. Dunno if you can mess with what's in there to make it happen, but I wouldn't trust me to do it!
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Re: Learn me on P-90 Pickups
Tonelounge would be my choice too... Mathew is a very helpful forumite!
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Re: Learn me on P-90 Pickups
As we know SG stands for Satans Guitar so its no surprise it doesn't fit, like a hot poker in your botty.
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It could actually be super easy depending on what you already have. It is essentially just moving the capacitors over by one lug on the volume controls.HackSaw wrote:Thanks Matt! Yeah I don't subscribe to that necessarily, but do want the 50s wiring. Dunno if you can mess with what's in there to make it happen, but I wouldn't trust me to do it!
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It could actually be super easy depending on what you already have. It is essentially just moving the capacitors over by one lug on the volume controls.ToneLoungeMatt wrote:HackSaw wrote:Thanks Matt! Yeah I don't subscribe to that necessarily, but do want the 50s wiring. Dunno if you can mess with what's in there to make it happen, but I wouldn't trust me to do it!
It is a bit more tricky with a PCB, but still possible.
Otherwise those kits look great.
I am not sure about the VIP centralab style pots. I would absoluteley use them for a vintage vibe, but they look to be specced for looks rather than performance.
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Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
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Re: Learn me on P-90 Pickups
I agree with what others have said in that P90's vary greatly. Some of them just sound like 'that Humbucker sound but with added hum'. But then the good ones are the greatest thing ever. I spent many years finding ways to thicken up the single coil sound a little - heavier strings and compressor pedals being the main tricks employed - but turns out the tone in my head was a P90 all along (literally, as one of my points of reference was Another Brick in The Wall). I love single coils and PAFs too, but a good P90 is just magical.
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Now I have a guitar with actual P90s, rather than humbucker sized ones, I'm amazed at how grunty the Lollar overwound P90 is, requires a quite different EQ setting to what I would normally run on the brown channel on the katana but it chugs hard out, easily does Van Halen or heavier, crazy good!
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Re: Learn me on P-90 Pickups
Love my P90 equipped LP, but I find I'm using my strat more often, because of band dynamics. P90 doesn't really cut through my bandmates HB'ers, but the strat pokes through quite nicely.