Members Juanvillella Posted August 25, 2017 Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 I need a guitar to play cleanly with reverb, chorus, delay.play open chords, fingerpicking, surf. For some psychedelic folk, dream pop, surf-rock, post punk.Sound like brian jonestown massacre, diiv, beach fossils.One guitar is the gibson sg standard p90 2016 and the other is the gibson sg standard 2017 (with 57 classics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted August 25, 2017 Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 If cleaner tones is your things, you might be better off with the P90's. Full sized HB;s can wind up having too much beef and are often better for higher gained tones. You can gain a P90 nicely and with the volume rolled back it cleans up nicely. A gain up HB is great for leads but you roll the volume down they tend to get darker tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 I get some very cool clean sounds out of my 2013 SG Standard, which has the 57 Classics in it - just drop the preamp gain a bit and you're golden. Either guitar can work for clean tones... the P90s will do it a bit easier, while the 57 Classics will need a bit less gain, but will remain hum-free, which is a big plus in some situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted August 25, 2017 Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 I'd vote for the SG P-90. I own two of them, and one is clearly my fave over the other, point being, not all are gems and it's not necessarily price dependent. I also own SGs with various HB configurations, but the P-90s get you a phat single coil sound and I find it's easier to get vibey tones from them (good for surf) and the "edge of breakup" tones seem like they are also easier to obtain without loosing that single coil vibe. Although I like the looks of LPs better, I like the feel and vibier tone of SGs better and attribute a lot of that to the fact that Gibson was competing against the Fender designs/tones when they came up with the thinner slab bodied SGs, so they were "mission achieved"; and the P-90 config just makes it all that much easier. But if you do go SG w HBs, then indeed '57s or BB1 & 2 would be your best bet for the tones I read you describing. To me, the SG Standards with the 498s need a good dose of overdrive to warm and round them up. OTOH, I'm also a rare duck in that I also prefer HB SGs that have the 490R/490T more so than the 490R/498T configs. The latter works better for harder rock. I'm more into the tones of classic rock, including my love for surf. I also love the BJM and The Mermen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted August 25, 2017 Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 In my humble opinion, there is NOTHING better then the chime or that wonderful purr from a set of nice P90s in a mahogany guitar. BUT.... that being said, the sound of a neck humbucker in an SG, is the one reason you buy an SG.So me, personally, I would go with the P90s, and add a series parallel push/pull switch, that will turn the P90s into a single humbucker. Just for when you want that stadium shaking ROAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Les Paul Lover Posted August 25, 2017 Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 Or you can track one down with mini humbuckers and have someth8ng somewhat in between the P90 and the 57s. Anyway, all very nice choices. If you don't have to worry about hum, the P90 are a good choice indeed. A clean neck P90 is a lovely thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikeo Posted August 25, 2017 Members Share Posted August 25, 2017 I have a SG standard that I love, which has humbuckers, and SG Classic which has the P90's I just like the 57 Classic humbucker better for just about everything. IMO, they have more high end shimmer, more output and they clean up just fine. My SG standard might have 490/498 configuration, but I'm no sure, The guitar has been with me for 37 years. One thing about getting something with an classic 57 is, if in the end you don't love it, you can always drop in a Duncan Phat Cat P90. or 2 of em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onerailunder Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 Funny, everything's relative. I prefer the P-90's for about everything except raging slabs of distortion, then I prefer the '57 classics. Vote for the P-90 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted August 26, 2017 Members Share Posted August 26, 2017 For the style music, a Gibson SG3 would Really be my suggestion - 3 bar singles, 6-way selector switch! Here's one on Reverb for $1170 + shipping. https://reverb.com/item/5712575-gibs...QAvD_BwE&pla=1 https://www.google.com/search?q=sg+w...-vDWyUIiW1p1M: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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