OAK Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Hello everyone I have been thinking about getting a Epiphone ES-339 and change the pickups to P90s. There is a model with P90 pickups, I know. But I'd like to have a coil splitting with these pickups. If this makes sense as I've read that you cannot split P90s. Seymour Duncan has a pickup that can be splitted s I see: https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/p90-stack-bridge. Now the options are 1. to get a ES-339 P90 and change the pickups and the electronics or 2. to get a normal ES-339 (that already has coil splitting) and change the pickups There are other pickups that could fit like: https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/p-rails-set. Or another P90 pickup. Don't know if my thoughts make any sense. :) Thanks for any suggestions and thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad penguin Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 OOOoohhh Kayyyyy..... The P90 can't be split, since it's a single coil pickup. Splitting, or more commonly called "coil tapping" is done on humbuckers with 2 coils. One coil is essentially turned off, giving you a single coil sound. Since a P90 is a single coil, there's nothing to turn off. Duncan does have a stacked P90, with two coils, that could be tapped to give you a single coil P90 tone. Same with D'Marrizo. BUT, when turning off a coil, it opens the guitar up to the reason humnbuckers were created in the first place: Hum. IF you use a lot of high gain, you will have an issue with hum. So, instead of coil tapping, try a series/parallel switch. It will give you the brightness of the single coil P90, without the hum. Use of a push/pull switch can eliminate the need for drilling holes in the guitar. Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffytune Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Hi there. Well, I think I get what your wanting to go for, but as stated before, to split a pick up, it has tohave more then one pick up coil. If your wanting more tones and P-90's. you should look at a Epiphone Blueshawk. It is a small semi hollowbody with a dummy coil for hum calcining and the vary-tone for added tone choices. My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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