Product: AWB Ninety
Price Paid: Pounds 42.50
Submitted
10/25/2001
at
09:21pm
by
Dave Law
Email: dalaw1242<at>freeserve dot uk dot co
Features
:
Pickup features: Single coil (P90 Type)
Impedence or other specs: ?
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Standard stock strat
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): loud but just about anything and everything
Reason for pickup change: Wanted more power and presence, loved the P90 sound and wanted something different from your everyday Strat. Meant routing the guitar but it was really, really worth it!
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: Big fat and round, just imagine a Strat fed on Steroids
Tone: Well balanced rich and ballsy
Sonic evaluation: A fender amp (tube) and my strat.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Some heavy, but just loud good rock
Overall Rating
:
10
Comments: Would I buy them again I already have, these are my second set. Someone recommended I go chat to Andy Blake at www.pickuprepairs.com, I did and haven't met anyone with as much enthusiasm or time. And from other reviews here I think he gives a great service all round. I explained that I found Strat pickups too harsh, I tried a set of his Tweed Tones for free and they were much better, but I wanted louder and warmer so he crafted a set of Nineties that were calibrated and just sound fabulous - rich and warm, when you turn up the gain they growl and distort and really kick the amp. Andy was patient and attentive, it was a pleasure to give him my money, better still because I bought a set of three he gave me a special discount but made me promise not to tell, put it like this I got a super set of three for about what some big mass producers would ask for two. I have had Andy make some custom pickups for another guitar and they are just the ticket too, cause he's a small independent he can probably make you anything you want, in double quick time AND to a very high standard.
