samzadgan wrote:maggot wrote:I'm giving humbuckers one last shot because I like the fact that, y'know, they buck hum (I like noiseless singles like DiMarzio Areas just fine), I'm very close to going all P-90 all the time in my Gibson-style guitars. I just can't get used to those weird humbuckler mids!
P90's fuckin rule!
i love P90 tone...the hum pisses me off when playing at volume with a band...so usually use humbuckers. But for home use I pretty much only use my P90 guitars...they just have a richer tone and less compressed
I'm kind of in the opposite camp: I pay a lot of attention to the hum at home (or while recording) and it bothers me, but live, I don't pay a lot of attention to it. There are so many reasons to mute everything between songs, anyway, and when I'm making a ruckus, I don't pay that much attention.
For single-coil guitars, I'm pretty committed to noiseless Dimarzio fake "single coils", Areas and Injectors and the like, but there's not a really great P-90 or hum-sized fake P-90 that's noiseless. Maybe the Lindy Fralin ones that I can't afford. I bet the Railhammers are relatively quiet, with the metal covers.