jeremyb wrote:Soapbar PRS as another suggestion? I'd be going DC Special tho', love the fuck out of those guitars!
Yeah loved my soapbar prs, in fact I think a forum member here has it now...
no love for Jimi's p90 yammy?
What model PRS soapbar? I've got 2 of them - McCarty standard trem and Custom 22 triple soapbar.
to be honest I cant remember exactly, I got it off the sgt back when he was around and it had been modded and resprayed by ash...
I dont think it was a super -expensive model but I loved the neck, nice and chunky but soo playable...
Hmmm, here's my situation if you give a crap at all. I like the way the tele plays and feels, don’t like the sound as it’s too thin, want to replace them with P90’s
Options:
1) New pickups in the tele
Pros: Don’t have to sell the Tele, could get the sound I want in a proven, resonant guitar.
Cons: Not guaranteed to get the sound I’m after as the bridge has to be a tele bridge shape so might not quite be the sound I’m after, and I'd have to spend more money than I have available to do this. Another thing is that I'm not 100% that a p90 will fit in the neck route as is. It look like it would but I'm not totally sure. If it can't then this can all piss off. I'm also getting a bit sick of torturing the poor beastie with a soldering iron.
2) Sell Tele, new guitar
Pros: Don’t have to muck about guessing and can get the exact sound I want, can play around with different options, fun times choosing a new one, more money available.
Cons: Have to sell Tele, have to find a guitar that sounds and feels good which will be fun and daunting.
GrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
The only disadvantage of that bridge is you can't go back to a normal SC Tele bridge so its a one way decision. I found that out the hard way on my old HW1.
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Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...
TmcB wrote:Hmmm, here's my situation if you give a crap at all. I like the way the tele plays and feels, don’t like the sound as it’s too thin, want to replace them with P90’s
Options:
1) New pickups in the tele
Pros: Don’t have to sell the Tele, could get the sound I want in a proven, resonant guitar.
Cons: Not guaranteed to get the sound I’m after as the bridge has to be a tele bridge shape so might not quite be the sound I’m after, and I'd have to spend more money than I have available to do this. Another thing is that I'm not 100% that a p90 will fit in the neck route as is. It look like it would but I'm not totally sure. If it can't then this can all piss off. I'm also getting a bit sick of torturing the poor beastie with a soldering iron.
2) Sell Tele, new guitar
Pros: Don’t have to muck about guessing and can get the exact sound I want, can play around with different options, fun times choosing a new one, more money available.
Cons: Have to sell Tele, have to find a guitar that sounds and feels good which will be fun and daunting.
There's nothing thin about my Korinacaster which has much to do with the Lollar Special T pups. Fractionally thinner than Ben's Les Paul Junior but close enough to make both guitars occupy the same space. Lollar have voiced them to do the P90 thing. Will drop right in. Make sure you have a good tone pot because the P90 appears with the tone rolled down half way.
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This won't be a helpful comment at all, but I find my Tele's bridge pickup to be incredibly meaty. It has about as much output as the PAF humbucker in Ben's Robin. Chunkiness to spare when playing through my Marshall. It's a 2010 US Std... I think they used different pickups back then?
