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Originally Posted by frp
Anyone have one? Played one? I came across it while looking for something else on MF, but now I'm intrigued.
Any thoughts on single coil PUs on a custom?
Photo attached for reference.
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I have an R4 Custom with a P90 and an Alnico IV. They sound marvelous clean and the P90 is killer once overdriven. But they do pickup a LOT of noise. I'd say about 1/3 of the sound can be noise, though when playing it may not seem that way.
Great aggressive sound unlike any other single coil or humbucker. The constraints are they pickup any electromagnetic field. My outside lights turn on when a critter runs through the yard and the pickups hear this and get noisier. It is a battle. There is usually one or two relatively quite spots in a given p-lace , but you have to find them and contort into them.
Lots of players love P90s and discount the noise as just something that goes with the territory. I guess it does.
Heres a pic of mine. It is an Historic R4:
