howlingsounds Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Hi, just wanted to ask a quick question: seeing as the epiphone es-339 has a coiltap, does that mean if I replace the pickups and want p90s I should get p94s instead and just have them on the single coil setting for it to be a p90? does that make any sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 The question makes sense. The answer may not, and that is No, nothing sounds like a P90 like a P90 does. Any single coil pickup is far more than just a split/tapped humbucker, it is its' own thing. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_vicente Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Strictly speaking the guitar will most likely have a coil split, i.e. it switches between both the coils of the humbucker pickup to just one of the coils of the pickup. If you install P94s, you will render the coil split switch redundant as the pickups only have one coil (hence the name "single coil" pickups). The P94 is simply a P90 single coil pickup in a different housing. In theory a single coil can be "tapped" (only part of the coil is activated) but I doubt this is possible without major modification of the P94 pickup. The humbucker pickups in your guitar now will have 4 conductor wires which allow it to be connected to the coil splitting switch. And internally it will have the circuit to allow you to select between [A] isolating one coil or using both simultaneously. The P94 has only 2 conductor wires and no option for connection to the coil split switch (and no circuit inside which can be split/tapped). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_vicente Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Just an addition: Because in the title you ask "P94 or P90", the only pickup of those two which will fit in your guitar is the P94. Your guitar is routd for humbuckers and humbucker-sized pickups. The P94 is a P90 in a humbucker-sized housing. A P90 will not fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howlingsounds Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Strictly speaking the guitar will most likely have a coil split, i.e. it switches between both the coils of the humbucker pickup to just one of the coils of the pickup. If you install P94s, you will render the coil split switch redundant as the pickups only have one coil (hence the name "single coil" pickups). The P94 is simply a P90 single coil pickup in a different housing. In theory a single coil can be "tapped" (only part of the coil is activated) but I doubt this is possible without major modification of the P94 pickup. The humbucker pickups in your guitar now will have 4 conductor wires which allow it to be connected to the coil splitting switch. And internally it will have the circuit to allow you to select between [A] isolating one coil or using both simultaneously. The P94 has only 2 conductor wires and no option for connection to the coil split switch (and no circuit inside which can be split/tapped). so your answer is that i CAN put p94s on the guitar but can no longer use the coil tap? (i am perfectly okay with this). thanks for the replies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_vicente Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Yes, that's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabar Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 More specifically, with a single coil pickup (of any sort), there is nothing to "tap." The whole point of a coil tap is to eliminate one of the two coils of a humbucker in order to have access to a single coil sound. When the pickup is a single coil to start with, you're already there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howlingsounds Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 thanks for the replies. just to clear something up...i dont really care about whether i can still coil tap or not. i simply want to know if it is physically possible to have either p90s or p94s in my epi es339. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Zeplin Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 thanks for the replies. just to clear something up...i dont really care about whether i can still coil tap or not. i simply want to know if it is physically possible to have either p90s or p94s in my epi es339. Have you considered SD Phatcats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_vicente Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 thanks for the replies. just to clear something up...i dont really care about whether i can still coil tap or not. i simply want to know if it is physically possible to have either p90s or p94s in my epi es339. The P94 is the correct size for your guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_vicente Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 More specifically, with a single coil pickup (of any sort), there is nothing to "tap." The whole point of a coil tap is to eliminate one of the two coils of a humbucker in order to have access to a single coil sound. When the pickup is a single coil to start with, you're already there. Being really nitpicky here - forgive me - but it is in fact posisble to tap a single coil, i.e. use a circuit to isolate a smaller section of the coil for lower output. However, with stock P94s this is not possible, as you rightly point out. If we're going to be really stirct, the circuit in the ES339 which switches from two coils to one coil is also a coil split (not a tap). This guy explains it well: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howlingsounds Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 thanks for the replies everyone. p94s it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_vicente Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Glad we could help. Good luck. I'm sure you'll enjoy the new pickups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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