Best cheap twin P90 guitar?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:20 pm

Yep, much more like a great tele bridge pickup.

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:35 pm

i'm half tempted to get some sort of flat bodied with a stop tail TOM and try my hand at routing for a jaguar tremolo.

or

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:49 pm

benecol wrote:Yep, much more like a great tele bridge pickup.

See, that's what I like about the mean 90s. The bridge is still nice and spiky and a bit harsh sounding, but still sounds girthy and big. Then, I have my aerodyne tele which has a P-90 in the neck and the bridge is properly "make your ears bleed" harsh.

I have a set of dream 180s on my way to have a go at them. I might get the 90s if I can find a guitar to drop them in.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:53 pm

George wrote:i'm half tempted to get some sort of flat bodied with a stop tail TOM and try my hand at routing for a jaguar tremolo.

or

very elliot easton

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:55 pm

George wrote:
the mustang and jag trems i've owned have been able to move from standard to open G (low E unchanged) and drop D while staying almost completely in tune. i mean is it as bad as something like a floating strat trem or floyd where it's all synchronized?

the bain of my strat, as much as i love it. though the block of wood stuffed in the back has solved that lol

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 11:24 pm

my local shop has one of these in. gonna try it out tomorrow. birthday treat

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 11:46 pm

George wrote:my local shop has one of these in. gonna try it out tomorrow. birthday treat

That looks great

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:48 am

Progrockabuse wrote:
George wrote:
the mustang and jag trems i've owned have been able to move from standard to open G (low E unchanged) and drop D while staying almost completely in tune. i mean is it as bad as something like a floating strat trem or floyd where it's all synchronized?
the bain of my strat, as much as i love it. though the block of wood stuffed in the back has solved that lol

Its a big ask for any floating system to stay in tune with alternate tunings.
Hence the Drop D mechanism developed by EVH.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 3:53 am

George wrote:also, HOLY MOLY - look at that neck heel

nope.

I don't even think this bothers me. Am I some kind of weirdo pervert?

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:22 am

No I'm just a wuss. That's one on eBay btw for 200 or best offer btw "vintage vs6 graham Oliver". I'm out if you fancy it

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:54 am

Cheers, but I'd need to shift my Jagmaster first... DRAT.

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:55 am

Fran wrote:
Progrockabuse wrote:
George wrote:
the mustang and jag trems i've owned have been able to move from standard to open G (low E unchanged) and drop D while staying almost completely in tune. i mean is it as bad as something like a floating strat trem or floyd where it's all synchronized?
the bain of my strat, as much as i love it. though the block of wood stuffed in the back has solved that lol
Its a big ask for any floating system to stay in tune with alternate tunings.
Hence the Drop D mechanism developed by EVH.

yeah this is why jaguar trems are top tier. looking to spend some time with a bigsby today. generally i think they look gash but on that gretsch it definitely works. most i've played i think have been set up badly

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:56 am

Freddy V-C wrote:Cheers, but I'd need to shift my Jagmaster first... DRAT.

its up for the next 18 days!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-VS6-G ... 565f8c4912

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 11:17 am

BLOODY GONE AND REVIVED THIS THREAD THEN HAVEN'T I?

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:31 pm

good stuff!

tried out the gretsch just now. they only had the gold one in store. very nice sound, really dig the size and look too, but the neck profile is very chunky, almost U shaped. one thing i will say is that the bass strings sounded very dull like flat wounds. i thought this was old strings, however it seems this is normal for filtertrons? that is not good either

it also had the very same egregious neck joint as that Vintage SG. i think it may be a deal breaker, but when all's said and done i don't use the higher frets too much anyway. had to come home cos tracys family are coming over but will be going out again later to try some more.

so i guess don't know what i'm looking for really. i'm just gonna try out a load of things. it may be that i still go for a nice playing and looking twin humbucker guitar and then add some filtertrons or p90 from there

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:10 pm

Aside from the heel, that white SG looks pretty cool. I just googled Graham Oliver - he was the guitarist in Saxon. I guess someone had to be.

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:52 pm

yeah the heel is ugly but i don't think it's much different from a bolt on guitar.

tried out a lot of the lower end gretsch models and they all sound bad. the problem is how imbalanced the eq is across strings. lovely chimey bright treble strings and muddy bass strings, no matter how new the strings are. i was willing them to be good but it didn't work. i did like the bigsbys however.

i then looked for p90 guitars. the ONLY one they had in stock was a jim adkins telecaster. it sounded amazing and reinforced that i really want a p90 equipped guitar.

so i think i'm going to go back to basics and do things on the cheap. i'm after one of these

one of these

and a couple of these

George · Post by **George** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:24 pm

what's this overpriced antoria actually worth?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/18129201 ... 0&ff14=102

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:43 pm

George wrote:yeah the heel is ugly but i don't think it's much different from a bolt on guitar.

tried out a lot of the lower end gretsch models and they all sound bad. the problem is how imbalanced the eq is across strings. lovely chimey bright treble strings and muddy bass strings, no matter how new the strings are. i was willing them to be good but it didn't work. i did like the bigsbys however.

i then looked for p90 guitars. the ONLY one they had in stock was a jim adkins telecaster. it sounded amazing and reinforced that i really want a p90 equipped guitar.

so i think i'm going to go back to basics and do things on the cheap. i'm after one of these

Alan Sparhawk from Low plays one of them live.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:30 pm

timhulio wrote:Aside from the heel, that white SG looks pretty cool. I just googled Graham Oliver - he was the guitarist in Saxon. I guess someone had to be.

I liked their early heavy stuff but then they went to America and came back all glammed up playing Cock Rock. Apparently, Oliver started using Vintage guitars after he had an old Gibson SG stolen on a tour. Affordable and reliable was his line if I remember right, also less to insure.