Put that router away and say hello to brighter, grittier tone with these drop-in, humbucker-sized single-coils.
Transforming a guitar’s sound with a new set of pickups is exciting, but it’s not always easily doable without routing. We’ve assembled 10 options designed to serve up delicious P-90 tone, but sized to slip right into your humbucker-routed guitar.
H90 Standard
These low-wind pickups offer snappy and brighter single-coil tones for those in need of more chime and less power, and can be ordered with custom wood tops.
P90 – Humbucker
Boasting clear lows, thick mids, and percussive highs, this vintage-voiced P-90 was designed for versatility, clarity, and snarly midrange, and is available in a number of finishes.
Dream 90
These P-90s are reported to provide fat, warm-yet-crunchy body, and can offer full humbucking performance when both pickups are selected, because the neck pickup is reverse wound.
Heavy House P94
Based on the company’s House Special P-90, this pickup brings all the power and tone of a true P-90 but in a humbucker package—measuring 7.4k for the neck and 7.8k for the bridge.
Humbucker Sized P-90
A faithful recreation of a vintage P-90, these pickups feature spec plain enamel wire, alnico 4 magnets for the neck for clear and fat sounds, and alnico 5s for the bridge for bite and grind.
Pro-90
For those chasing authentic tone, these pickups duplicate the construction, materials, and growl of a vintage ’50s-era P-90 by using the company’s proprietary Vintage Core specifications.
Hum-90
Housing alnico 2, 4 , or 5 magnets and 43AWG coil wound around its humbucker-sized P-90 bobbins, these pickups are said to offer single-coil tones with clarity, presence, and a defined voice.
Fat Bastard
These single-coils are designed to offer plenty of crunch by capturing the classic P-90 tone of the 1950s with “a little South Texas funk” thrown in.
V-90
Regardless of your style, these degaussed alnico 5 pickups were made to be touch sensitive, respond well to pick attack, and provide tight lows, grinding mids, and singing highs.
A humbucker-sized P90 based on a Gibson P94 but with Forbon fibreboard bobbins.
Chester, U.K. (September 17, 2015) -- House Of Tone Pickups proud to announce our latest pickup, the Heavy House P94! This humbucker sized P90 is built based on the earlier Gibson P94's but uses Forbon fibreboard bobbins with an open top cover for a classic look.
The covers are all the highest quality nickel silver available in chrome, nickel, gold or unplated. These pickups are wound with 42 gauge poly or plain enamel copper wire and available in Alnico II, III or V depending on the tone you are looking for. The Alnico II and III gives a warm and very vintage sounding tone with a smooth bass and well defined mids, while the V gives a little more sparkle to the top end and will distort very nicely when pushed, especially on the bridge position. As with all our pickups, the Heavy House is very dynamic and responds to subtle differences in the intensity of the players picking hand. The Heavy House comes wired as a 3 conductor to enable phase reversal. This is the perfect pickup for a wide range of styles from vintage blues and jazz to classic and hard rock. The Heavy House retails at £75 ($115) for a single pickup or £140 ($215) for the set of two and come in our fire branded wooden box with a lifetime warranty to the original purchaser.
House Of Tone Pickups also offers our House Special range that we feel captures some of the most sought after sounds using top of the line materials and made one at a time for top quality. From there we also have a vintage spec line, made to specific years in the exact fashion and exact materials used at the time. All our pickups are hand wound with hand cut magnets and wax potted unless otherwise requested.
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