Spitfire Posted September 29, 2008 Posted September 29, 2008 Love the darkburst color, always liked hollow-bodies. I had the 490/498 pickups from the std ES-175 in my studio and wasn't thrilled with them. Heard nothing but good things about P90s. Might be a good bridge between my strat and my LP. Anyone have any experience with these?
the_HEWC Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 Nice one! I also like hollow-bodies, and I just started thinking. How about a ES-335 TD with coil tap switch that could also do as the bridge between a strat and a LP. But P90s are lovely, a bit trebly but very very responsive in dynamic and I love that!
MikeRom Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 No but I'd like to. When can you send it to me?
Old Deadhead Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 Love the darkburst color' date=' always liked hollow-bodies. I had the 490/498 pickups from the std ES-175 in my studio and wasn't thrilled with them. Heard nothing but good things about P90s. Might be a good bridge between my strat and my LP. Anyone have any experience with these?[/quote'] Not in a hollowbody, however P-90's are fantastic p/u's in an SG.
ChanMan Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 I can see where you might have a touch of GAS for that.... ^_^ Some one has a great sig tag line for this instance: Life is short. Buy the guitar.
Spitfire Posted September 30, 2008 Author Posted September 30, 2008 I knew I could get encouragement here. LOL I don't think I'd mind the trebly aspect of the P90s since my ceriatone marshall channel can be a bit dark. I'm not rushing it, but I think I this will be my next.
nolongermike@gibson Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 What I love about those with P90s is that you can get a huge range of tones if you move about the tone knobs and play with the toggle settings in combinations, which is true of any electric, but with a hollowbody you can make that thing bark and growl like a mad dog for dirty blues, then turn around and slap a set of (shudder.....) flatwounds and make jazz tones for days. I like the mad-dog on a short leash effect of a hollow body or semi hollow body personally, and I'm likely going to add a true hollow body to the pack soon.
Thundergod Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 Great! I love the looks of that guitar... and I'm sure it plays wonderfully... cant wait for actual pics WHEN you get it.
Tim Plains Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 I love the look of those, as well. A bit too bulky for me, though. An ES-335 is about as big of a guitar as I can handle. Anybody seen the movie Walk Hard? I thought it was hilarious, but not everybody has the same humour as I do. An ES-175 was used in the movie.
FreedomStain Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 All the ones I've played were bad at best. Make sure you try it before you buy it.
SRV-Zeppelin Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 If you want a good hollowbody to bridge between your LP and Strat, try an ES with 57s- most come with them stock. They're very low output and personally my favourite pups that Gibson makes as you can use them to achieve both great Electric Blues tones (SRV) and Classic Rock tones (Zeppelin). If that isn't your thing, then go with the P90's. personally they're a bit too high-output for my taste but they'll definitely give you a much different sound than your LP or Strat.
Spitfire Posted September 30, 2008 Author Posted September 30, 2008 Thanks for the feedback everyone. I will have to give one a go next time I'm in a shop. I do like the 57's, my pop's LP Classic has them and they sound great to me. Might try an ES with those. I thought I was going to get a historic RI next, but I would rather have something more distinct from my LP std. No wait, I need both!!! I saw Walk Hard, erm, no comment.
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