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I really dig these pickups.
Seymour Duncan P-90 Silencer shootout!!
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PFDarkside
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Excited for this! Your rules of engagement and wants are exactly like mine. I don’t care if they sound a little different, but 90% of the time with 10% of the hum sounds fantastic to me.
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Yeah, but this time they got it right.
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I like 'em.
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So interesting!
I've put Duesenberg Dominos, which are P90 in a humbucker format, in an Epiphone Les Paul. I used that guitar for all live gigs with a doom metal band I played in, usually through a fuzz into an already crunchy amp. It was so loud, gainy and noisy that I never cared about the hum, as I had to turn the guitar down anyway in breaks.
But also in every other band, the hum never bothered me.
I've put Duesenberg Dominos, which are P90 in a humbucker format, in an Epiphone Les Paul. I used that guitar for all live gigs with a doom metal band I played in, usually through a fuzz into an already crunchy amp. It was so loud, gainy and noisy that I never cared about the hum, as I had to turn the guitar down anyway in breaks.
But also in every other band, the hum never bothered me.
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They are at least a novel configuration compared to what’s come before (ahem, P-100)
Schmoemi
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Yeah, I haven't seen a 3 coil design so far... I think...
And regarding the pole spacing... Kinman does that, too...
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When the Silencers first came out there were posts over at Duncan forum about the Vox CoAxe pickups from back 15-20 years ago. It was a novel design but not the first multi-voice type pickup. Duncan had P-Rails, Barden had Two-Tone and so on. I'm not sure the Co-Axe guitars were even released in the US though. I'm not sure how many coils either but they had the same appearance of two rails on either side of a larger screw pole bobbin.
I did install a set of Silencers but I didn't fully disassemble them. Three coils being hum canceling didn't compute at first. Best I can tell its like they took the concept of the dummy coil from a stack, split it in half, put one half on either side of the main coil to fir the soapbar shape, then wired the halves in series. So if a humbucker is two coils opposite magnetic polarity and current flow, then the silencer is two matching half coils summed together plus one whole coil of opposite magnetic polarity and current flow to get hum canceling. I'd say its a novel idea.
At one time I was a serious P-90 devotee and I tried several older gen Kinman P90-HX flavors. If the Silencers are 90% true P-90 tone without hum, I'd give those Kinmans at least a 95. A little too much high mid-range presence though for me. Problem was they were taller then stock P-90's and who wants to rout their guitar deeper after already shelling out $300 plus for pickups. They have a newer gen that's supposed to be standard height but prices are even more exorbitant now I haven't splurged.
I did install a set of Silencers but I didn't fully disassemble them. Three coils being hum canceling didn't compute at first. Best I can tell its like they took the concept of the dummy coil from a stack, split it in half, put one half on either side of the main coil to fir the soapbar shape, then wired the halves in series. So if a humbucker is two coils opposite magnetic polarity and current flow, then the silencer is two matching half coils summed together plus one whole coil of opposite magnetic polarity and current flow to get hum canceling. I'd say its a novel idea.
At one time I was a serious P-90 devotee and I tried several older gen Kinman P90-HX flavors. If the Silencers are 90% true P-90 tone without hum, I'd give those Kinmans at least a 95. A little too much high mid-range presence though for me. Problem was they were taller then stock P-90's and who wants to rout their guitar deeper after already shelling out $300 plus for pickups. They have a newer gen that's supposed to be standard height but prices are even more exorbitant now I haven't splurged.
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