buyusfear
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I just got this test batch of P-90's in the mail and i'm pretty excited. I wanted to share some pic's and my thoughts here because these things are blowing me away, and I haven't really seen much talk about them, being that the company is pretty new. I've tried many many P90's, including vintage, and these are right up there.
I've been going back and forth with Nate Sanford of Sanford Magnetics for several months now, trying to put together a super dialled-in mid 50's esque P90, wound to my tastes, to capture that luscious blooming sound I get out of my vintage '56 Junior, and many other vintage P90 Les Paul's i've played.
I can't wait to try all of these sample winds out, to pick out what to go with.
So far, I've had time to swap one P90 in, which I will then swap with another, and so forth, not changing strings, or guitar, leaving all of my amp and pedal settings where they're at.
My initial impression is that it's an amazing sounding pickup! And not only that; but an amazing feeling P90. THIS to me is very important.
Extremely well balanced and reactive under your fingers.
Straight up, I'm like, "cool - done, that was easy, now lets get picky and dissect them all".
Blooming notes, articulate mids. Really smooth clean's and yet an ability to drive the amp with amazing volume roll off control.
Very similar harmonic response to my Vintage Junior's P90 as well, almost a tad more with this particular combination.
Actually this particular P90 i'm testing at the moment is a different magnet than vintage spec, it may be rough cast A5 but i'm not getting lost in the weeds so I don;t really know yet, I want my ears and fingers to pick, so they're not exact sounding (plus they are different guitars), but that's the point, I'm looking for a hybrid of what works for my playing and ears.
I asked my wife, I'm like, "hey, come here, listen, here's the '56 Jr... ok now here's the first Sanford Proto", she's like, "they sound like the same guitar". So take that for what it's worth.
I've thought about tossing the pickups into different guitars to a/b them against each other more quickly, which I may do towards the end, but at first I want to be as methodical about this as I can and use my replica TV Junior as the platform.
I'm running it through an OCD V3, Strymon El Cap, and into my 65 Amps 'lil Elvis.Additionally, I'm a/b'ing it against my '56 Junior as a level benchmark.
Sanford has been a really cool company to work with up to this point, AAA in my book.
Super personable and willing to hear me out on my neurotic requests and great email communication. That to me, as a small one-man show myself, is everything. We've got some really cool ideas in the works i''m excited to share, that is once I nail down which P90 blend i like best.
His work is so clean, you can really tell that he's passionate about what he does. I love it. A perfect compliment to the effort i put into my work.
Its a tone taste test!
This will be the test chassis.
I've been going back and forth with Nate Sanford of Sanford Magnetics for several months now, trying to put together a super dialled-in mid 50's esque P90, wound to my tastes, to capture that luscious blooming sound I get out of my vintage '56 Junior, and many other vintage P90 Les Paul's i've played.
I can't wait to try all of these sample winds out, to pick out what to go with.
So far, I've had time to swap one P90 in, which I will then swap with another, and so forth, not changing strings, or guitar, leaving all of my amp and pedal settings where they're at.
My initial impression is that it's an amazing sounding pickup! And not only that; but an amazing feeling P90. THIS to me is very important.
Extremely well balanced and reactive under your fingers.
Straight up, I'm like, "cool - done, that was easy, now lets get picky and dissect them all".
Blooming notes, articulate mids. Really smooth clean's and yet an ability to drive the amp with amazing volume roll off control.
Very similar harmonic response to my Vintage Junior's P90 as well, almost a tad more with this particular combination.
Actually this particular P90 i'm testing at the moment is a different magnet than vintage spec, it may be rough cast A5 but i'm not getting lost in the weeds so I don;t really know yet, I want my ears and fingers to pick, so they're not exact sounding (plus they are different guitars), but that's the point, I'm looking for a hybrid of what works for my playing and ears.
I asked my wife, I'm like, "hey, come here, listen, here's the '56 Jr... ok now here's the first Sanford Proto", she's like, "they sound like the same guitar". So take that for what it's worth.
I've thought about tossing the pickups into different guitars to a/b them against each other more quickly, which I may do towards the end, but at first I want to be as methodical about this as I can and use my replica TV Junior as the platform.
I'm running it through an OCD V3, Strymon El Cap, and into my 65 Amps 'lil Elvis.Additionally, I'm a/b'ing it against my '56 Junior as a level benchmark.
Sanford has been a really cool company to work with up to this point, AAA in my book.
Super personable and willing to hear me out on my neurotic requests and great email communication. That to me, as a small one-man show myself, is everything. We've got some really cool ideas in the works i''m excited to share, that is once I nail down which P90 blend i like best.
His work is so clean, you can really tell that he's passionate about what he does. I love it. A perfect compliment to the effort i put into my work.
Its a tone taste test!
This will be the test chassis.
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