crashhelmets
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Hello! I am just looking for some advice on setting up P90s.
I've had a SE277 semi-hollow baritone guitar with the P90 pickups since 2016. Although I love the guitar, I've often struggled to find my sound on it.
The main issue is the tonality and volume of the 2 pickups are so different to each other. The neck pickup is very bassy with no high end detail, and the bridge pickup has no bass.
So I recently adjusted the pickups so the neck one is deeper into the body and the bridge one is much closer to the strings, and carefully adjusted the 6 screws on each so all the strings and pickups sound exactly the same volume. But it didn't help the tonal issue.
Using corrective EQ I can dial in some good tones, but the pickups just sound so different to each other that it's impossible to find an amp setting that works for both pickups. Using an EQ to correct the frequencies for one, makes the other sound worse.
(The pickups hum and feedback very easily too. But I can live with that)
Any advice appreciated! Thanks.
I've had a SE277 semi-hollow baritone guitar with the P90 pickups since 2016. Although I love the guitar, I've often struggled to find my sound on it.
The main issue is the tonality and volume of the 2 pickups are so different to each other. The neck pickup is very bassy with no high end detail, and the bridge pickup has no bass.
So I recently adjusted the pickups so the neck one is deeper into the body and the bridge one is much closer to the strings, and carefully adjusted the 6 screws on each so all the strings and pickups sound exactly the same volume. But it didn't help the tonal issue.
Using corrective EQ I can dial in some good tones, but the pickups just sound so different to each other that it's impossible to find an amp setting that works for both pickups. Using an EQ to correct the frequencies for one, makes the other sound worse.
(The pickups hum and feedback very easily too. But I can live with that)
Any advice appreciated! Thanks.