Members mikesr1963 Posted May 28, 2018 Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 I bought a beautiful Agile LP style guitar last year off CL. Truly sweet guitar that plays great hell it even sounds great but it just seems to have more humbucker sound than P90. Before I research investing in another set of P90 pickups I want to ask if there is something I can try, adjustment wise that one of you may have had success with in dialing in a better P90 sound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted May 28, 2018 Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 Try raising the pickups ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danocoustic Posted May 28, 2018 Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 If it has 500k pots (my P90 Agile guitar did), you could try replacing them with 300k. Might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted May 28, 2018 Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 Are they noisy like single coils? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikesr1963 Posted May 28, 2018 Author Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 Are they noisy like single coils? Not that bad and I don't mind because I can control it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted May 28, 2018 Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 The reason I ask is because Gibson P90s are quire noisy but they (Gibson) also make a P100 which is a noise cancelling (humbucking) version of the P90. I like the sound of P100s but some players say they are not P90 enough. Perhaps your pickups are built like P100s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted May 28, 2018 Members Share Posted May 28, 2018 I have humbuckers that sound like crap but that's because of my playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikesr1963 Posted May 29, 2018 Author Members Share Posted May 29, 2018 Try raising the pickups ? Found it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted May 29, 2018 Members Share Posted May 29, 2018 Try raising the pickups ? Wouldn't that make them thicker? Which actually isn't too bad. You get more signal per hum (which remains constant) and if you don't like the darker tone there's always different caps/pots/treble bleed etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikesr1963 Posted June 1, 2018 Author Members Share Posted June 1, 2018 Wouldn't that make them thicker? Which actually isn't too bad. You get more signal per hum (which remains constant) and if you don't like the darker tone there's always different caps/pots/treble bleed etc... In my case, I thought they were already a little high so I plugged into my rig and brought the pickups down. Way down really. Set an open tuning and just strummed across all the strings until I found the growl I was looking for. When it was said and down the pickups still looked closer than my gut would think but the sound is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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