What Is The "P90" Sound?
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Published 2020-11-24
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All Comments (21)
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Whats your favorite P90 guitar?
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What is the “metal zone into fender practice combo” sound next please.
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I love how Rhett just says: "I borrowed this Gold Top Les Paul from Rick Beato..." as if we all know who the man is. But of course, we all know who the man is, ha ha.
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I love P-90s. Everything from surf to metal. If they are too "spanky" for your high gain sound, just roll off the tone knob on your guitar a little bit, and you have instant humbucker!
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I’ve been playing for over 40 years, and I unbelievably have never played P 90s until the other week. My friend bought a Harley Benton with P 90s and he said give it a try. I couldn’t believe how awesome the pick up sounds! Just one pick up and using the tone and volume gives you so many variations of sounds unbelievable! I love them.
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What is the “Line 6 Spider IV Insane-Mode” sound?
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I am really enjoying this series man. It is so appreciative of what makes a tone so unique and killer! Great work
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In my first band, in 1968, the other guitar player had a mint condition LP with P90s. We both wanted SGs. He traded his LP for $90 toward an SG Standard which cost $335 at the time. I got an SG Special, with P90s that I played professionally until 1983.
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Dude, the second you mentioned “the solo you thought was a strat”, I knew exactly which tune you were talking about. I was mindblown when I first found out that was a p90 Les Paul. I always had that solo categorized in my brain as “a killer strat neck sound”. Finding out that was a p90 made me reevaluate a lot of what I know about single coil sound and personal finger tone, in general.
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Could you do "what is the jazzmaster sound?" I really love the sound of this guitar and there is nothing that sounds quite like it
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Man, the quality of Rhett videos is so amazing... Impressed with the informative content and great playing of this one!
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These videos are huge! After years of playing, I myself cannot articulate what you are demonstrating. This is a home run series Rhett!!!!!!!
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I'm officially shocked! Gilmour played a P-90 gold top. WAAAAAY back in 1980 I was trying to emulate that sound on a P-90 LP junior and got so very close. And I would tell people it would sound right if I had a Strat! wow. Thanks, Rhett, once again you have been a major confidence booster! Great info and excellent video!
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As I got older and developed my own taste for guitar sounds and quit focusing on aesthetics the P90 became my favorite
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I recently picked up a 2019 Les Paul Special with P90's and honestly, it's really hard to not say it's now my number 1 after being a huge strat fanboy for ages. I still love the strat for cleans and that bright "edge of breakup" tone. But for raunchy leads, the P90's just do a thing I didn't realize I needed so badly. I'm in love with the thing.
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That Gilmour thing was THE guitar revelation for me this year... Man I would have swear on that being a strat! Loved the whole video approach, it would be great to see one with the sounds of Jazzmasters and the Filtertrone styled pickups.
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I'm really liking the "What is the sound" series. I'm learning so much from them. Great idea.
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Good shout out for the 77 punks, it's common to overlook their choices of guitars and how it shaped their sounds, but Steve Jones or Mick Jones were really digging the possibilites of P90!
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For me it's the sound of the first two Black Sabbath records.
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This is the 4th time I've come across your channel in my guitar deep dive and every video is well researched, presented, and informative. You've earned my sub man
