Mini humbuckers for sludge?

[fatfreddyscat]

I'm looking for mini humbuckers to replace P-90s in Les Paul Special.They can be true mini humbuckers or humbucker in mini housing.Looking for high output and something that can cut through a ton of fuzz.

I see that Lace offers the drop and gain and nitro hemi as mini humbuckers,which seem like they might be a good idea.Any other options?I guess what I'm looking for is a high output PAF in that size.

[Bellyheart]

I played the new Fralins in his shop. They are great. Been looking for minihumbucker bodies just to have them in my life. Perfect pickup.

[doommeow]

I've never had luck with minis, but don't have a lot of experience either.

Look at Novak, Vintage Vibe, and maybe Lollar.

[Mudfuzz]

What about Dimarzio P90 super distortion?

[Bellyheart]

I just installed a dimarzio sd in the bridge of my friend's guitar. Hated it but I don't like getting distortion from my pickups. Think amp and pedals are the way to go personally.

[MEC]

The Bare Knuckle Pig 90 is not really what you're asking for, but still worth checking out.

https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/p ... kup=pig_90

[Mudfuzz]

I just installed a dimarzio sd in the bridge of my friend's guitar. Hated it but I don't like getting distortion from my pickups. Think amp and pedals are the way to go personally.

they don't contain distortion… they are just really loud and powerful…

[Bellyheart]

Of course not. The hotter pickups are used, usually, for distortion and creating more of it. You're gonna get more of a distorted sound with those pups than using lower output pups at the same settings of the amp. That's what I'm referencing.

I'd rather crank my amp to that setting than have my pickups sound like that. Just a gross clean in my opinion.

[Mudfuzz]

For the most part I agree with you except when I want extreme metalesque sounds, then I like those 16k pickups like the black winter and old ibanez roadstar pickups… plus you can always turn the knob on the guitar down or not have the pickups as close to the strings which… isn't a sound I like for any pickup really… I set hight by how much the string hits the pickup… I like that clang

anyway… For a actual P90 I like Bare Knuckle's supermassive 90 as a bridge pickup, it isn't really louder then a average P90 but it has a lot more lows and mids which makes it sound a little more like a PAF then a single.. which to me just balanced better with neck pickup in my guitar [the green hollow body].. as for a sludgy sound… you can do that with a tele if you have the right mindset.

[morange]

For what it's worth, I just put a mini humbucker I wound to 6.4 k in the mid position of my tele, and it's nice, pretty well set between the dark neck and bright bridge. Not a hot pickup, though. I put 4.2 k winds of 42 awg on each coil, and they were pretty full, but you could probably do 5k on each to get into paf territory.

I don't even know what sludge is.

[frigid midget]

I threw in a pair of GFS mini hums in my back-up sludge/drone geetar:



It's actually not even my main/favorite back-up, for the same reason as why I'm probably not the right guy to make a semi decent review of the pickups.

I've got a love/hate thing going with gibson guitars, I nearly always prefer using my fenders, even for heavy fuzzy shit. The stuff I play is usually associated with humbucker guitars, but the gibson I tried always sounded too...I don't know, clean

I guess it's mostly the ergonomics, weight, playabiltiy, feel though.

Anyway, fwiw, those gfs mini hums sound similar to the mini hums in the les paul deluxe I used to have. As far as I can tell by playing those very unsimilar guitars that is:)