The Flying V thread

[Zork]

I'm not happy with the Pickups in my Vintage™ Flying V. It has those Wilkinson WHHBN ceramic 'buckers and they sound pretty bland and sterile to me (even though many folks in the forums seem to like them). I think I want to put P90s in the guitar. My other guitars are a Casino with replacement P90s with lower output (7.5k vs. 12k stock) a Les Paul with GHS P90s and a Firebird and there's also a Tele. I first wanted to keep the humbuckers in the V for more distinction in my guitar family but I believe it's just not my style.

I'm leaning towards the Roswell LGA90 humbucker sized P90s (neck: 5.8k, bridge: 9.85k). I wonder if I should replace the cheap import pots while I'm at it. My Les Paul has 330k pots for both volumes and both tones, my Casino has probably 500k. I'm thinking to use 500k linear taper for the two volume pots on the V and 250k audio taper for Tone. What do you think? I don't want the V to sound overly bright (that's what the Tele is for) but it shouldn't be muddy either. I want the pickups to reproduce the resonant and lively acoustic personality of the guitar. It's currently set up for B standard tuning.

[Blackened Soul]

Roswell‘s eq and out specs seem to be very different for everyone else on similar pickup types… either they read in a different format or their pickups lean to the dark/bassy side.. if I was going to buy one I’d buy one pickup to see what it was lit before getting a set.. imo most p90s are bassy in the neck position, I think out of the 3 buckersized p90s I’ve tried I thought the rio grande bastard was the clearest, SD phatcats are hot and mid spiked and Gibson p94s are bland (in a solid body) my all time favorite p90 neck pickup is the bootstrap squeaky mean slug magnet soap bar, sadly they don’t make a bucker sized.. but other builders do make a slug 90 in that size… but I have not used so my fave bridge p90s are the archane Doom and the bareknuckle supermassive.