Who has a P90 pickup guitar and knows the value of their pots and caps?

DinoMikeSr

DinoMikeSr

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If you know would you please list them if you know them right off.

My P90 LP that I’ve posted about before, don’t have it with me so I can’t confirm it, probably has 500k pots based on how bright and thin it sounds.

I believe I’m going to try 500 k volumes and 250k tone pots and a couple different caps to see if I can take the edge off without a pickup swap.

Thank you.
 
I just got a set of Duncan P90’s and was thinking the same thing. Planning on locating a couple of those 400k or 350k oddball pots just in case. :baimun:
 
baimun said:
I just got a set of Duncan P90’s and was thinking the same thing. Planning on locating a couple of those 400k or 350k oddball pots just in case. :baimun:
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Was looking at those too when I ran across an article about pots and caps and what others have tried.

Thing is years ago before I played a Epiphone special with p90s and it sounded like what wanted. It was $100 guitar so I feel like some how I should be able to pull that from what I have.
 
DinoMikeSr said:
Was looking at those too when I ran across an article about pots and caps and what others have tried.

Thing is years ago before I played a Epiphone special with p90s and it sounded like what wanted. It was $100 guitar so I feel like some how I should be able to pull that from what I have.
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You may have to do some trial and error.... I think Phil X said something about using a 250 in the volume and a 500 in the tone, or vice versa.
 
2016 Les Paul Special with P90s. Tone pots measure at 500K. Tone caps are rice kernel size blue blobs with no marking. Can't make out markings on volume pots, and I don't feel like lifting a pickup lead in order to measure, but assume they are 500K like the tome pots.
 
I have four P90 guitars and the tone controls on three of them sound similar. The the range of adjustment on the fourth guitar is weird, the treble remains pretty buried until the last little bit of knob travel. I haven't checked, but I have to think that's not a 500k tone pot.
 
It largely depends on the pickups themselves. I have a Reverend and the stock pickups had 250k pots for volume, treble, and bass (Reverends all have bass cut controls - really cool). I swapped them out for 500k volume and treble and 1meg reverse log for bass (what G&L do on their guitars with bass cuts). For the stock pickups, it was overly bright, but I was also replacing them with Seymour Duncan Silencers and for those pickups, 500k sounds great.

For your 500k pots, if they're audio/log pots, turning the tone down from 10 to about 7 will be about the same as having 250k pots on 10.
 
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