I thought I was being slick with a P-90 neck /single / splitable humbucker Strat but you have out Gibsoned me. Damn you
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
lol
@VictoryCBGs
5 жыл бұрын
I love the sound of P90’s!!! They sound a bit thicker than a single coil, but not quite as thick as a HB.
@davidkastin4240
5 жыл бұрын
3 P90's in a Strat is the ultimate for P90 tones. I'm a Strat lover so this is excellent!
@angusorvid8840
2 жыл бұрын
I wish strats came loaded with 3 P-90s. Then the world would be a more rockin' place. There's nothing like P-90s, and more and more players are discovering that.
@davidkastin4240
2 жыл бұрын
@@angusorvid8840 Do what I did. I recently bought a budget Strat and all parts needed and made a 2 P90 Strat that I always wanted. It's one of a kind and unique because it's lefty.
@heart_of_Pluto
3 жыл бұрын
Man that's some great playing. P90s are perfect for the Blues in a strat! Just inspired me for a partscaster idea 😁
@robertbigler7743
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I see so many videos where the gain is maxed... This is clean... Straight into a clean amp. From your video, I actually know what this guitar sounds like.
@mikeduganblues
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks guy.
@WinstonTexas829
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@oldgrannywheels
4 жыл бұрын
I saw Little Charlie Baty with a 3 p90 Telecaster, so I thought I'd search if anyone played a 3 p90 Strat, and here you are playing exactly the style I love. Than you sooo much for this, its the absolute perfect demo for the sound I was thinking!
@superdriver777
4 жыл бұрын
4:20 Sounds like "It Hurts Me Too" which is one of my favorites! That tone is just fantastic, I may have to put P90s in my Squier Bullet some day....
@Nonexistanthuman
4 жыл бұрын
This idea popped in my head as I was looking at my guitar. I'm glad someone made it into reality
@mikeduganblues
4 жыл бұрын
Cool man!
@nightlust
3 жыл бұрын
Make it real then!
@jmvmike
Жыл бұрын
I love the way you make those pickups sing! Beautiful
@jaredtallen
Жыл бұрын
that sounds good I had this idea and this now confirms that I truly wanna have a strat with 3 p90s
@greg6509
9 ай бұрын
Wow! We need a tutorial on how to make one of these! Haha. Love your soulful blues playing!
@justinTime077
3 жыл бұрын
I come back and watch this from time to time. I’ve never been a full on blues man, but you might just win this millennial over to that side.
@mikeduganblues
3 жыл бұрын
Hey there's nothing wrong with having a variety of tastes. Thanks Justin.
@carsgunsandguitars
5 жыл бұрын
Damn that p90 sounds great in the bridge position with a little dirt on it!
@MarkOxley-vo3kq
Ай бұрын
Great tone! Great grove! 😎
@justinTime077
3 жыл бұрын
Haha I am building a Strat in the vein of Gibson myself, I just wanted to be sure as I’ve never used p90’s. This is excellent. Very nice!
@janichmondieu6505
Жыл бұрын
I have a budget Squier Strat that I have upgraded to a real player. I have to move to the p90's after that incredible tone and you are my new favorite guitarist. Great playing style. The Best !!! Thanks!
@rkluth
4 жыл бұрын
I never tire of this clip and your wonderful playing. I went out and bought a Vintage V6P with the 3 P90s after watching this
@mikeduganblues
4 жыл бұрын
That's great to hear Rich. Enjoy that sweet axe and thanks for listening!
@boxerfencer
4 жыл бұрын
The clean intro reminds me of the brick in the wall pink Floyd sound. It's rumoured he used p90s, on a gibson guitar I assume, for at least one of his most well known solos. He also used or uses Hiwatt.
@nightlust
3 жыл бұрын
He used a goldtop, played DI into the console and reamped it to a Mesa Mark 1
@boxerfencer
3 жыл бұрын
@@nightlust DI? Directly into?
@budandbean1
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds so amazing but hey, Mike can make a 2 by 4 with a nailed on pickup sound pretty darn stunning too.
@mikeduganblues
5 жыл бұрын
Ha! Good one Buddy. Thanks for listening!
@budandbean1
5 жыл бұрын
You da man Mike! :-)
@robsherfey4582
4 жыл бұрын
That's what I'd have in a Strat; 3 P90s with a blender or or s1-type switch so u could get Tele sounds or all 3 at once.
@Bucky1836
4 жыл бұрын
Damn id love to hear it 😍
@joeblankenship377
Жыл бұрын
neck+middle sounds great with the p90s!
@rayray-yw5tx
2 жыл бұрын
Daaammmnnnn! The sounds are just fantastic!
@nyacoustics8373
4 жыл бұрын
That sounded awesome. ! Nice playing
@andreszuniga1826
2 жыл бұрын
First of all your a great guitarists. Second of all that guitar sounds amazing with those pickups .
@superdoov
8 ай бұрын
That was AMAZING. OMG!
@gasparepellecchia
Жыл бұрын
5:20 very strange tone for Strat neck 😮
@jesse2d
Жыл бұрын
Far superior to the tone of regular strat pickups. P90's rule!
@bluesman7119
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds great , I have a Trevor Wilkinson designed Strat with his 3 stacked p90'S it's the Vintage Reissued Custom Spec V6PFCB Flamed Cherry Burst with a vibrato trem system some people are purist but three P90's takes the Strat to a different universe
@creamydistortion
2 жыл бұрын
You did it! You found the holy grail of clean tone!!! :-)
@IanOmictin
Жыл бұрын
I love the middle p90!
@twowaymuir
Жыл бұрын
I have an SX Hawk Strat with the 2 P-90 set up. Believe I prefer the sound over my 3 other Strats with the regular single coil 3 pickup arrangement.
@Kestrel-zc1du
Жыл бұрын
quite interesting and beautifull sounding configuration, I've got a Jaguar style 3xP90 low budget guitar, 5-way switch, which is a good experiment in terms sounds possibilities, what seems to me is that on an original strato bench that peculiar sound quality is even more extended
@bakeman2
3 ай бұрын
This is so cool! What type of P90s are those? Know where I can get a set?
@brooklynboy1000
3 жыл бұрын
It’s got that vintage T Bone Walker frequency popping out that makes me think of late 1940s early 50s bluesy shit
@thelastgreyhawk2161
Жыл бұрын
I was planning on a custom made P90-S-S one day but then I thought why limit those sweet P90 tones to my bridge?? And now I'm here
@robertlandry8919
5 жыл бұрын
Why is this the first time I'm seeing this pick up in a strat?? Great!!
@TylerDurden9LB
4 жыл бұрын
It's been on my partscaster build list for a couple of years. Being a lefty, I'm used to having to mod or build if I want something a little different than a plain stock model. The idea always seemed rad. I wondered why it wasn't explored.
@MrSimhacker
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds wonderful man. Thats a damn good combination !
@marciomvp9458
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! What is the bridge pickup height you are using?
@robbehr8806
9 ай бұрын
Sounds great!
@jeffreybuckingham3782
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! Big, Barkin' Honkin' Stratty Goodness! Well done Sir!
I was wondering, are you using 500k pots? I'm fixing to mod a Squier SE with three P90's. Only difference is I want to use a three way for the neck and bridge, universal volume and tone, then a three position toggle in the bottom tone space. Up, by itself through the volume and tone, middle off, down to mix in with any position with the three way. Great tone and playing.
@dusanbogunovic6148
2 жыл бұрын
goooo grandpa bravo
@briangrovesteen800
5 жыл бұрын
That guitar sounds amazing!
@alexandrehouet3831
4 жыл бұрын
I like your playing! Some of it reminds me of Ray Manzarek's keyboards in Riders On The Storm.
@mikeduganblues
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Alexandre. Yeah that's my favorite Doors' song, so I stole some of that! See us on FB Live Fridays 6pm. Cheek2Cheek Duo.
@nobodysreview6137
3 жыл бұрын
Why dont they make this and angle the bridge pick up, sounds great
@boxerfencer
4 жыл бұрын
Can you get noise cancelling with the in between positions?
@st.johnfromdesmoines8361
2 жыл бұрын
Nice video! I already knew these, of course, but the two things this video does such a good job of demonstrating for us is: a) what a fantastic "baby bear's bed" the P90 is to the "papa bear's bed" of humbucker, and the "mama bear's bed" of fender-style single coils (and what a chameleon they are as well)! b) how pickups are only part of any guitar's sound story; a big part, no doubt - one of the top three biggest parts, most likely....but certainly not at all the "end all and be all". I know that regardless of the context, a P90 will always land somewhere along a spectrum in-between, say a PAF Les Paul and a standard Strat SSS, just because of the way they're designed. They'll always be hotter, warmer, thicker, richer, and barkier than a standard Strat pickup, and always more expressive, and nuanced, and dynamic, and more dazzling, and spankier than a full humbucker. But what guitar you put them into will make a huge difference on exactly where along that spectrum they land. In contexts like a P90 Les Paul, or SG, or 335, or jazz hollow body - you know, anything with a 24.75 (or similar) scale, with [usually or primarily] mahogany bodies, set neck, and a tunematic-style bridge, they sound decidedly "PAF of center" to me, whereas in a strat, they not only sound decidedly "Strat of center", but they even sound way more strat-like than I was expecting! In fact, had you told me you were playing a strat, and let me hear without letting me see or telling me about the P90s [edit: original draft had mistakenly said "Humbucker" here] I'm not even positive I would've correctly identified the mod that's how "strat" this sounds! Given the complexities of guitar tone being so much more than just the pickups, this is true to some degree of any pickup in any guitar. A Strat HH (or an Ibanez RG) will sound like a compromise between Strat and Paul sounds, as do the videos I've seen of people modding Les Pauls with standard Strat pickups will sound like a compromise in the opposite direction. But neither the Strat HH / Ibanez RG or the [we'll just call it] "Les SSS" transform and adapt nearly as much as the P90 guitars do. Insofar as we can separate "pickup sound" from what I'll call "body sound" (literally everything else except pickups), these guitars sound way more pickup, where the P90 examples sound way more "body". Because the P90 is so much more of a chameleon than either of the extremes. To a certain extent, and in a certain manner of speaking, the extremes are less impacted by their surroundings, and bulldog their own personalities into whatever context they find themselves, where the P90s are much more accommodating and adaptive and compliant to their surroundings! And this is why if you held a gun to my head and said "name your favorite pickup design", or alternately "you can have 100 guitars, but they all have to use the same kind of pickup", I'd probably have to say P90. :-) Again, great video! Sorry I rambled on so long! :-)
@greg6509
9 ай бұрын
Great comment! 1 thing, p90s are single coils not humbuckers.
@st.johnfromdesmoines8361
9 ай бұрын
@@greg6509 Thank you! And I apologize for the confusion: I actually did know that P90s were single coils, but re-reading my original comment just now, I can definitely see where I gave the impression that I didn't. It was likely where I said "but if you hadn't told me about the Humbuckers" in the context of "I might not have even noticed that this strat was modded". I had actually meant to say P90s there, but had what I suppose we could call the guitar pickup equivalent of a "Freudian Slip". 🤣🍻 No, the subtle tell that I actually did know about the P90's being single-coil was in the very early parts of the comment where I said "Fender-style single coils" as if I was making a distinction between single coil styles. 😉 I was actually just thinking about this video again the other day, and how I'd love to get a Harley Benton Strat and mod it, or else, get one of those Rondo SX guitars with 3 P90's, upgrade the pickups, and reverse the wiring on the middle pickup so that you could have those spanky Strat-like "2 and 4 tones" 🙂 Thanks for the reply, and again, my fault on the confusion! I'll probably go back and edit the original comment after this to clear that up! 🙂 Cheers!
@eldesgraciado6690
3 жыл бұрын
I'll bet you went to the crossroads and made a deal.
@digitalfritts
3 жыл бұрын
Great playing man, really enjoyable. 👍
@mikeduganblues
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for listening!
@southboundguitar
Жыл бұрын
Sweet! I've been kicking around this idea for several months now. I just can't decide on the config that I want to go with....I'm so torn between 1.) 3 P90s; 2.) HH config with 2 p90s or 3.) a hot lipstick in the neck and a set of p90s for the middle & bridge. After finally seeing your video, I am in LOVE with the sound of that p90 in the neck position. Did you wire it up stock? I was thinking that I'd wire everything up as normal with an SSS s-type, except that I'd like to take that second tone pot and wire it up as an independent neck volume. I'd add a toggle to give me the 6th & 7th positions mod, but I'd have the added benefit of being able to roll off the volume of the neck pup at will, and get a good balance. I've heard/read good things about using a Two Volume setup with HH P90s. Seems to be a little more useful than individual Tones. Thanks for the video! Cheers!
@DidiHyena
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome playing Bro🙏
@NofreedomofspeechonYouTube
5 жыл бұрын
Sustain is amazing and you played it well again as usual :)
@Mihei1973
5 жыл бұрын
Браво, мр.Дуган!
@carlandjennifersilva
4 жыл бұрын
Ive got a 3 p90 strat but the stock pickups kind of suck. What kind of p90’s are these? I’m looking for quality replacements
@MrSimhacker
3 жыл бұрын
I bet Gary Clark Jr. would love this guitar. He has the Gibson SG with 3 P90's in it.
@tedwrink
4 жыл бұрын
Did you mod a scratchplate or did you buy it ? If you bought it where is it from ? Thanks bud
@jonmatthews4254
2 жыл бұрын
Sweet playing.
@kionihernandez356
5 жыл бұрын
nice lookin axe! is there any easily obtainable of the weird and interesting pickups page you had put up?
@hhattingh
5 жыл бұрын
I never use to like P90's and now I just can't imagine why?
@mr.smithgnrsmith7808
2 жыл бұрын
Nice playing sir
@junoschannel5855
5 жыл бұрын
Great tone man👍🏻😁
@mastermachetier5594
5 жыл бұрын
I’m thinking about a similar build . What did you select for picks between neck and bridge considering most p90 sets are built for neck and bridge only
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
I bought this as a set of three so I guess I didn't have to think about that problem
@mastermachetier5594
5 жыл бұрын
drowninginguitars ahh well sounds awesome !
@brandonramirez4042
5 жыл бұрын
Made ME wanna jam out! A p90 on my 79 ain’t a bad idea? Maybe just on the bridge.
@tatialo37
5 жыл бұрын
Cool guitar !!!
@BluesJammer69
Жыл бұрын
Yes...I need another strat!
@williamhurrelbrink3324
2 жыл бұрын
Cool beans!
@omirp13
2 жыл бұрын
What is the brand of the pickups and model?
@jraimondi
5 жыл бұрын
3 P90’s!!! Nice 😎
@IRevealTheMagic
4 жыл бұрын
What p90 did you use for the middle position? Another neck p90 or a bridge p90?
@drowninginguitars
4 жыл бұрын
The pickups are a set of three, so it's a middle position
@carsgunsandguitars
3 жыл бұрын
LOVE that tone at 3:40, was that the middle PU alone, or bridge/mid together?
@mikeduganblues
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks man, yeah that's the middle pick up.
@carsgunsandguitars
3 жыл бұрын
@@mikeduganblues really great
@BillyBN
3 жыл бұрын
That thing is awesome! Is it for sale?
@KevinWale
4 жыл бұрын
sounds great... did you put a bridge in the middle?
@drowninginguitars
4 жыл бұрын
These pups were sold as a set of three so it's the M position there
@allancooley9510
5 жыл бұрын
Great playing! Love the sound of the P90. Looks like you got quite an arsenal of guitars.
@andrewlampert5079
5 жыл бұрын
Let me know if you ever sell it! I have never liked stratocasters until now.
@paulblanchet542
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds great! What's the overdrive pedal you're using?
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
Fulltone OCD
@jmacc9876
4 жыл бұрын
That's amazing!
@mikeduganblues
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeff!
@yagzaliozyalcn2041
4 жыл бұрын
Magnificent
@АндрейСемёнович-у4м
Жыл бұрын
Дедъ крутъ)
@emochinchilla
2 жыл бұрын
Them tasty licks brother!
@Nicko30able
4 жыл бұрын
Is that Gibson scale? Sounds great.
@drowninginguitars
4 жыл бұрын
No, it's a Fender scale
@johnnycondor
4 жыл бұрын
Nice tone! Love it! Which pedals and amp did you use for this demo?
@drowninginguitars
4 жыл бұрын
Fulltone OCD, Big Muff, various delays, Earthquaker echo.
@johnnycondor
4 жыл бұрын
@@drowninginguitars Thanks for the info! :)
@MrSimhacker
3 жыл бұрын
What brand of P90's are those?
@liberty5565
5 жыл бұрын
Great playing. Guitar sounds very classic (60's 70's). Amp? Pedals?
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! We almost always use an old Ampeg Gemini amp through a Fulltone OCD and various Big Muffs
@mikeduganblues
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for listening John!
@riffwizardsupreme
Жыл бұрын
what’s in the middle?
@robertpope8505
5 жыл бұрын
What value pots do you have in there? 250k, 300k, 500k?
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
I believe I used 500k... but if not then 250k. I can't quite remember!!!
@briangrovesteen800
5 жыл бұрын
What brand p90s are you using?
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
These are made by some of the original Mosrite workers or some kind of connection like that, so they're more like Mosrite pickups in a P90 housing. The company is called M3
@poppawolf26
5 жыл бұрын
sounds sweet....
@guitardiy5162
4 жыл бұрын
I like those in Strats, but I’d prefer them with coil taps for the bridge and middle for Strat tone. The neck pickup sounds very stratty ;)
@michaell4187
Жыл бұрын
How would you coil tap a p90?
@jameshurtado5389
9 ай бұрын
“It hurts me too”
@marblestudio84
5 жыл бұрын
cool!!!!!!
@iansmith7871
5 жыл бұрын
Great playing fella. Do you mind me asking what amp you're using?
@drowninginguitars
5 жыл бұрын
This was plugged into the Ampeg Gemini on the side there...
@newtonlkh
3 жыл бұрын
Normal strats sound like ducks to me. P90 are so much better!!!
@davidkastin4240
2 жыл бұрын
Quack Quack 🎸 lol 😝
@Turboy65
2 жыл бұрын
Anything a Fender singlecoil pickup can do, a P90 can do better.
@MELONenSURPRISE
5 жыл бұрын
B b king ,Albert king , Eric Clapton are absolute zeros for this man , i wonder if he knows it . No he doesn't
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