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Originally Posted by lightningmonkey

Seymour Duncan Phat Cats are $85-$90 at GC or Ash. I put one in the neck of my Les Paul Studio. There was a Burstbucker Pro in there. There is a Burstbucker Pro at the bridge. People rave about the sound I'm getting at the neck but it's a little too clean for me. But if that kind of quiet clean is what you like, that's the pickup for you. Not even remotely noisy. I had a vintage P-90 in my '52 ES-175 and it sounded phenomenal. But maybe it just worked better for me in a hollowbody. Or maybe the pickup was just so old and worn itself into sweetness and growl. The main thing I don't like about it in the LP is you can't really get that swoosh/crack you can get with a Gibson humbucker. On the other hand, I really like the bridge pickup on the LP. In the middle position the guitar sounds better with the P-90 at the neck than it did originally, so that's a plus. There are some trade-offs.

Anyway, I took that Burstbucker and rather than just leaving it in the box I put it in the bridge of this old Ibanez Roadstar Strat where the DiMarzio that was in there had degraded to the point of being problematic. And it sounds GREAT in the Ibanez (it's well-built, Japanese, from the mid-80s.) The DiMarzio was just way too hot. This Burstbucker was rated for the neck but sounds great at the bridge. What I am probably going to do is put the Burstbucker Pro back into the neck of the LP, and put the P-90 at the bridge of the Ibanez and that's where it'll really come alive, I'm thinking.

Awesome...I might check those out