Product: Lace Music Products PS-900
Price Paid: US $140
Submitted
10/10/2004
at
08:53pm
by
Anonymous
Features
:
Pickup features: Noiseless P 90 (but technically a humbucker)
Impedence or other specs: resistance 12.2 K-ohm
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Warmoth all-mahogany LesPaul, w/ tone chambers option
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: n/a
Other pickups on guitar: PS 905 (bridge)
Artists using this pickup: me
You musical style(s): jazz, blues, all shades of rock, none of that thrash metal crap
Reason for pickup change: n/a
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: Moderate, vintage p90-ish. Never rely on the resistance (ohms) to jusge output!
Tone: deep and full, good high-mid crunch and dark, clear bass, singlecoil-ish but waaay fatter than fenders
Sonic evaluation: I've never really played genuine p-90 LP Jr, but this one seems very vintage. The attack sounds "harder" than a strat, but not ear-bleeding buzzy like a tele can be. Compared to my SG, it does sound thinner but the sound has more "air" to it, like tighter, deeper and cleaner bass (no mush here) plis much more faithful treble response. I can understand why people say it's "piano-like." This neck pup makes the guitar sound a bit acoustic, although it doesn't sound as saturated/compressed as the humbuckers on my SG, it does jazz better than the SG neck pup.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Great for jazz, country, top40 clean, a PERFECT neck compliment to any distortion pickup in the bridge.
Overall Rating
:
10
Comments: The best phrase for this is "big sound." If you've ever listened to Tool or A Perfect Circle, their guitar sounds have lots of "texture" and deep, ominous clean sounds (not the cheesy cliche' strat clean sounds). If you want full, slightly dark but still barely glassy sound, this pup is for you. It's the absolute best neck pup I've heard so far,and I've had various single coils and humbuckers from Duncan, Dimarzio (Humbucker from Hell), etc. THE PERFECT NECK PICKUP! by the way, nice bluesy distortion without ice-pick buzz. The PS-905 in the bridge, however, is a little buzzy for my taste so I may change that to a Dimarzio P-90 Super Distortion, and that combination might finally put an end to my search for the holy grail of tone :-)
