P90 vs. P100

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:54 pm

Can anyone explain the difference between a P90 pickup and the P100 pickup?

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:00 pm

Doug wrote:Can anyone explain the difference between a P90 pickup and the P100 pickup?

Duh. One is obviously 10 better

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:08 pm

Have another drink, Mickie.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:15 pm

I don't know for sure but I assume it's to do with the angle of phase of the effected signal/sound wave. As they also do a phase 45

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:16 pm

P90s are great, if sometimes too hairy-chested (I love mine, but it's like being teathered to a maniac).

P100s are shit - hum cancelling humbuckers in a P90 shell, missing the point of both P90s and humbuckers. Avoid.

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:18 pm

Actually I was just about to post the above. Yeah, the p100's are not p90's. Not really fond of them.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:24 pm

Thanks, guys. This is helpful.

I bought a guitar that had been manufactured with P100s and the seller put P90s in it...I knew P90s would be good but wasn't sure if they'd be better than the original P100s.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:26 pm

Inevitably. He's done you a favour by ditching those P100s.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:43 pm

Tim has this covered. P90 good. P100 bad.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:46 pm

I just realised I should of paid attention to the word pickup before posting

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:47 pm

Yeah, I'm lucky on this one, Tim.

He put an original Gibson P90 in the bridge and a hotter Seymour Duncan P90 in the neck...yes, hotter neck. Which suits me cuz I play a lot of traditional Blues and use the neck pup with a fair amount of gain for a thick, dirty lead tone.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:20 pm

p100 sucks so much asshole.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:59 am

benecol wrote:Inevitably. He's done you a favour by ditching those P100s.

Here's a good discussion of P100s vs. P90s:

http://www.gibson-talk.com/forum/archiv ... t-596.html

N.B. The Les Paul Jr. Special came with P100s, and I believe the BluesHawk did as well.

DaveB · Post by **DaveB** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:37 am

I'll let you know when I change mine out. I don't think my P100 is that bad. It is also very recent Epiphone production. It might be different than the older Gibson ones that get shit all over on the internet.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:11 am

Yeah, the Epiphone ones'll be better than the Gibsons.

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Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:01 pm

Dude, had a p100 in an epiphone lp jr. pulled a p90 from an AXL guitar and it's 100000zxcgasgtlh times better. srsly.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:04 pm

I had stock P100s in a Gibson Les Paul Junior, they were fine, but a decent P90 is probably one of the best pickups ever made.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:07 pm

Sloan wrote:Dude, had a p100 in an epiphone lp jr. pulled a p90 from an AXL guitar and it's 100000zxcgasgtlh times better. srsly.

ha ha, i sold you that yellow one because the pickup was WHORRENDOUS

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:37 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:
Sloan wrote:Dude, had a p100 in an epiphone lp jr. pulled a p90 from an AXL guitar and it's 100000zxcgasgtlh times better. srsly.
ha ha, i sold you that yellow one because the pickup was WHORRENDOUS

i thought i was doing something wrong. i actually tried to remove the other coil from the p100 to make a busted ass p90, but somehow it didn't work and i put the axl p90 in. WAY BETTER. the p100 was honestly not playable.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:14 pm

My old P90 Ibanez Talman was one of the nicest sounding guitars I've ever owned/played. I seriously miss it now.

The Super Ferrites in my Peavey T-15 come close though.

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