GFS Mean or Dream P90's for Jagmaster upgrade?

Armchair Bronco · Post by **Armchair Bronco** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:48 am

After considering lots of alternatives (HB's & single coils) I think I want to put some GFS HB-sized P90's in my Jagmaster. All of the other boutique or mainstream P90's are just too expensive, starting at around $100/each and going up.

I have an SG Classic with P90's, and that's the tone I want from my Jagmaster. Which GFS P90 will get me closer? The Mean 90 or the Dream 90?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:46 am

I used to have the Dream 90's in my old SG, and they sounded amazing; somewhere between a tele bridge and a P90. By all accounts, the Mean 90 is truer to a P90 sound, though.

Armchair Bronco · Post by **Armchair Bronco** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:56 am

The suggestions I'm getting on other sites is to try a Dream 90 in the neck (for cleanish chime & sparkle) and put a Mean 90 in the bridge for some snarl and grit. That's probably what I'll end up doing.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:59 am

Sounds good to me, although if you've already got one P90 loaded axe, I'd be tempted to go with the Dream 90's for a bit of variety. Reckon they'd lend themselves better to a Fender, too, but you can't go far wrong anyhow.

Armchair Bronco · Post by **Armchair Bronco** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:09 am

benecol wrote:Sounds good to me, although if you've already got one P90 loaded axe, I'd be tempted to go with the Dream 90's for a bit of variety. Reckon they'd lend themselves better to a Fender, too, but you can't go far wrong anyhow.

Good point.

At least I know what I'm getting for the neck pup -- the Dream 90 definitely looks like the way to go given the kind of stuff I'm playing.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:03 pm

I'm really interested what the dream and/or mean 90s sound like. Do a demo when you've got it all installed will ya?

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:05 pm

i've seen too many amazing results with p-rails in jagmasters not to recomend them. but the mean 90s stick to the traditional p90 flavour

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Mon May 18, 2009 3:34 am

damienblair17 wrote:Do a demo when you've got it all installed will ya?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon May 18, 2009 4:10 am

damienblair17 wrote:I'm really interested what the dream and/or mean 90s sound like. Do a demo when you've got it all installed will ya?

i've got a mean 90 in the bridge of my artcore.

can knock up a quick guitar rig'd demo if you'd like? if it wasn't 5am i'd do one through the TT.

Armchair Bronco · Post by **Armchair Bronco** » Mon May 18, 2009 4:38 am

Reece wrote:
damienblair17 wrote:I'm really interested what the dream and/or mean 90s sound like. Do a demo when you've got it all installed will ya?
i've got a mean 90 in the bridge of my artcore.

can knock up a quick guitar rig'd demo if you'd like? if it wasn't 5am i'd do one through the TT.

A Tiny Terror demo would be great and worth waiting for. My primary amp is a TT into an Avatar G12H30 1x12 cube.

I'd love to hear this, but not until your neighbors are safely off to work.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:09 am

well for the moment i did a quickie guitar rig demo, i shall knock up a TT one when the rest of the house is up.

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Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:47 am

TT demo!

volume is set about the same on all clips, tone at about 2 o clock. no talky cause i'm lazy.

clip 1 - clean, gain at about 10/11 o clock - double miced w/ a condenser as a room mic and a dynamic halfway between the edge & center of the cone.
clip 2 - gritty, gain at about midnight - double miced, same as above.
clip 3 - overdriven, gain at 2 o clock - single dynamic mic, same position as above.
clip 4 - full gain. guitar volume rolled down during the intro, set on full during the chorus - single dynamic mic.

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Post by **dots** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:49 pm

Armchair Bronco wrote:The suggestions I'm getting on other sites is to try a Dream 90 in the neck (for cleanish chime & sparkle) and put a Mean 90 in the bridge for some snarl and grit. That's probably what I'll end up doing.

this is the setup i've been running on my hh jag for like 2 years now, and it's amazing.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:22 pm

Sweater Song = win. nice demo Reese.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:32 pm

damienblair17 wrote:Sweater Song = win. nice demo Reese.

it's the perfect demo song.

clean picked stuff, open chords and power chords all in one.

Armchair Bronco · Post by **Armchair Bronco** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:12 am

Nice demo. Just re-do it as a video with some voice-overs, post it on YouTube, and you'll be famous!

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:12 am

Reece wrote:
damienblair17 wrote:Sweater Song = win. nice demo Reese.
it's the perfect demo song.

clean picked stuff, open chords and power chords all in one.

Fuck, that demo gave me a crazy nostalgia trip. There was a girl I was supposed to be going with when I was about fourteen and she loved Weezer. I only had heard the Blue Album, but another guy that we knew loved them, and had all their albums, so she ended off with him. Crazy memories of not being able to contribute as much to a conversation as I would have liked whilst eating fish and chips and smoking Spanish Lambert.

I think this is because I listened to Brain Stew by Green Day earlier, and that sparked off another nostalgia trip.

Eight years ago. Fuck.