P90-to-Humbucker Drop-In?

[camsna]

can somebody reccomend a good humbucker drop-in for a p90. I know they exist. I just don't know who make them!

[frank falbo]

If you mean you have a P-90 space, then Dimarzio makes humbuckers housed in the P-90 housing. They are named "DLX" or "DLX Plus" etc. The DLX Plus sounds a lot like a Steve's Special so I've heard. If you have a humbucker space, then Gibson, Seymour Duncan, Rio Grande, and others make P-90's in humbucker housings.

[guitar_ed]

Gibson also makes a P-100, which is a noiseless single coil in the P-90 Chassis.

Gibsons P-90 in the HB chassis is called the P-94, and Rio Grande calls their's the Bastard and Fat Bastard.

Guitar Ed

[Shaggy]

mini-humbuckers?

[Scott Rosenberger]

Dimarzio also Makes a Tone Zone P-90

[rob]

abit off topic but, P-90's rule! How come you want to change it to a humbucker? Too much noise?

[charlleyw]

I have an es-135 with the p-100 (stacked soapbar humbuckers.) It sounds like the p90, but without the hum.

If what you want is the true humbucking sound, by all means switch out. But if you just want to quiet things down you can switch to p-100s or just shield those suckers.

[camsna]

No no. I dig the p90 sound. A buddy of mine just got a LP w/P90s and wants humbuckers instead and wanted to know if i'd do the body work. i'd rather just drop in a replacement! Thanks for the info!

[GregP]

I loves the P-90s, but hate the noise.

I wonder how much I'd get for the Seymour Duncan P-90s (not Duncan Designed) in my Godin? I'd rather have the P-100's, as I do a lot of recording in front of a CRT monitor.

Greg

[Nicksguitar]

Gibson sells their mini humbickers that they also put in their Les Paul Deluxe series. I think these are also the humbuckers that are found in the Firebird series guitars.

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I hope this is helpful.

[Shaggy]

No no. I dig the p90 sound. A buddy of mine just got a LP w/P90s and wants humbuckers instead and wanted to know if i'd do the body work. i'd rather just drop in a replacement! Thanks for the info!

a bloody shame

[Xerxes]

What's a pickup drop-in?

Try not reply 'u d@mn n00b u dun 3v3n d3s3rv3 t0 kn0w' or something similar.

[Shaggy]

u d@mn n00b h4xx0r u dun 3v3n d3s3rv3 t0 kn0w c0s im 1337

[litchfield]

Ah, the joys of pointless posting

[GregP]

Pickups are different shapes and sizes. When we say "drop one in" we just mean to swap one out for a new one. That involves de-soldering the wires, taking out the pickup, putting a new one in, and re-soldering.

In this case, because P-90s and Humbuckers are different sizes, he wants to know if there's an option to just "drop a replacement in" without having to modify the guitar's body (ie. hacking it up) in order to put new pickups into the guitar.

Greg

[butnut]

I know a lot of LP's with P90's were routed out for HB's...I don't think I've seen a HB in a P90 size that would drop in...unless it's the mini HB as was mentioned.

I loved my Duncan P90 LP, but sold it to get a Duncan HB LP...that's how I did my swap....but I have no problem using my RotoZip to drop HB's and CC's in my Tele's.