It's basically a P90 and a vintage strat pickup side-by-side in a humbucker casing. They can be used individually or combined into one MASSIVE 18k motherbucker- 3 sounds in one pickup!
Thoughts? I like it - would make a 1 pickup guitar (Les Paul Jr, Squier 51) damn versatile.
Not that useful as he's not playing clean - but yeh awesome idea. I'd love to stick one in a jagstang - put those bloody annoying selector switches to good use.
The fact they're using a gainy tone makes it seem like they're trying to cover it up a little- pickups don't sound as different when driven through the same pedal/amp as they do when running clean.
But I really really like the idea, I may be tempted to pick one.
I think you can make out the sounds pretty well even though he's not playing clean. I'm really impressed. Those "rail" sounds sound really good. I would love to see a clean demo though.
that's a REALLY cool pickup as long as it's under $120 or so.....
I did a similar thing in my jazzmaster by putting a p90 in the bridge, and RWRP jazzmaster pup in the neck. I have it wired in series or parallel so there's 2 good really different usable sounds that both are hum canceling. I can also rock each pup solo for true single coil spank.
Of course with these Duncans, one could do the same thing twice in one guitar.....that's a lot of switches to keep track of though....
yeh the gainy tone makes me suspicous - fact is he plays 3 different guitars at the start with 3 sets of pickups, and they all sound the SAME through that amp - just varying output levels. The he does the same with the p-rail and again, same sound but different output. That is NOT a good video to compare tones...
Actually one person has got a preview pair on HC - also someone from Seymour Duncan has posted there about it. Basically it's VERY tall because the strat rail pickup needed to be wound downwards, to accomodate the P90 - so tall that your guitar may need deeper routing. oops!
There is definitely a difference in the "rail" sound compared to the other two mate, if you can't hear it then you must have bad ears. I do think the "p90" and "humbucker" sounds sound same-ish though.
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I agree, the overdriven tone he uses showcases the pups fine. I can hear all the differences.
I think this pup is a great idea, even if was just a humbucker made up of a alnico strat single and a p90 it'd be rad. The splitting stuff is basically icing on the cake. I just hope its not expensive.
If it's really deep you can always shim the neck and raise the bridge on a Fender.
DuoSonicBoy wrote:It's 18k - I don't think it can go clean. When I had 13k HBs in my 335, it would distort everything I plugged it into, even pedals.
the pickup is rated:
Strat vintage rail: 8k
P90: 10k
Series humbucker: 18k
The strat pickup on its own should be pretty clean. It's weird he uses such a bright amp with so much presence - maybe it sounded too dark in that guitar?
DuoSonicBoy wrote:It's 18k - I don't think it can go clean. When I had 13k HBs in my 335, it would distort everything I plugged it into, even pedals.
the pickup is rated:
Strat vintage rail: 8k
P90: 10k
Series humbucker: 18k
The strat pickup on its own should be pretty clean. It's weird he uses such a bright amp with so much presence - maybe it sounded too dark in that guitar?
OUCH - that's still really hot. I was thinking about building one of these from spare parts, I think I was gonna do 4K and 7k.
euan wrote:10K is pretty hot for a P90 even, let alone 8k for a Strat pickup.
yea I know, aren't strat pickups usually about 5k and p90s about 8k? what are PAFs, like 8-10k? I understand that they wanted to make it more usable than your average coil-cut humby but it's still a bit much on the hot side.
