three pup question

[big bob]

Lets say you had a three pup guitar, and wanted two mini-hums and a p-90 how would you set it up.
Im thinking
N= mini-hum
M= mini-hum
B= p-90

hooked up with a three way like a les paul, with the mid mini on a push pull/ on off

or would it be better to go P-90 in the neck

all pups will be lollar's

 

[Paul-less]

P90 in the neck.



What guitar body is that?  I have wet dreams to guitars like that. A double cutaway, LP inspired body, THAT IS SYMETRICAL!

Well, it's NEARLY symetrical...




(hack spelling?)

 

[NLD09]

i would put a p90 in the middle position. That way you still get the nice out of phase sounds in the 2 and 4 positions.

 

[Paul-less]

i would put a p90 in the middle position. That way you still get the nice out of phase sounds in the 2 and 4 positions.

.... No 4 or 5 position on a LP toggle?

But seriously, going with the P90 in the bridge (the neck would also be a great choice), you could still wire the middle puppy to the push/pull, and like our friend NLD09 suggested, some out of phase options would be nice with another push/pull!

Personally, I would wire either the bridge or the neck to have reverseable phase, so you could get out of phase sounds in any pickup selection.

 

[NLD09]

i would put a p90 in the middle position. That way you still get the nice out of phase sounds in the 2 and 4 positions.

.... No 4 or 5 position on a LP toggle?

But seriously, going with the P90 in the bridge (the neck would also be a great choice), you could still wire the middle puppy to the push/pull, and like our friend NLD09 suggested, some out of phase options would be nice with another push/pull!

Personally, I would wire either the bridge or the neck to have reverseable phase, so you could get out of phase sounds in any pickup selection.

yeah do that.

 

[-CB-]

P90's are so much stronger in output than mini hums... gnarly raunchy ragged strong tones... bridge position for the P90.  Its the only way you'll balance things when combining pickups.

Case in point -

Gibson BFG and the two P90/HB guitars I built since getting my BFG.  You have to set that P90 very low, and have a really hot HB to balance them, when the P90 is at the neck.  It can be done with HB's, but with mini hums... much harder, if not impossible.

 

[big bob]

Lollar mini hum Neck 6.6, Bridge 7.2K

lollar p-90 Neck 8.2K, Middle 8.73K, Bridge 9.1K

I would say CB is correct.

 

[Jeremiah]

I guess it depends on the pickup - you can get some pretty hot mini humbuckers; I think the modern Gibson Firebird mini humbuckers are about 17k and sound nothing like the vintage ones, and the Seymour Duncan 'hot' mini is around 16k for the bridge model.