I have GFS Mean 90's in 2 of my guitars. I LOVE P90's....better tone and bite than humbuckers. That tone kicks ass in that guitar you are playing. Whatta nice sound!
That's the thing about single coils in a hollow-body (or semi) guitar. You can't shield those bad boys as you can't with a solid body guitar. DC (the head tech boffin) at GFS told me that their NYII neck pickups are RWRP. So maybe the Mean 90 neck ones are too. That would cut down on the humming when you use neck & bridge. As for me, I just use humbuckers on hollow bodies and split the coils when I want single coil tones.
@Hoopermazing The thing with this kind of pick ups is that the PU cover is solder and properly grounded (should be grounded) so that provides all the shielding you need for the PU (thats why they covered them way back in the day.) But if the wiring is not proper braid shielded wire, you'll get noise from the wires, all the wires not just the ones from the PUs. Especially when floresent lights are on or if there's a tv on in the room.
@zer0dahero I beg to differ.Even with grounded pickup covers, single coil pickups are going to hum like a mother in a hollow body or semi-hollow body guitar. You can get the same degree of shielding that you do with a cavity that can with completely shielded. Moreover, the wires, pots and switches aren't in discrete shield-able compartments either. My fully shielded Telecaster (w/ a hot Tele bridge pup and a P90 Neck) barely makes a sound even with fluorescent lights. My jazzboxes, not so much.
@Hoopermazing I guess everyone's experience is a little different. You're experience has you differ from the very reason pickup covers where designed to do and why shielded hook up wires were also used. Have you wondered why way back then the engineers decided to use shielded hook up wire and completely cover the puckup with a metal grounded cover. I'm sure they had a reason and they documented it. Then again, we have way more RF interference than decades ago so more is needed.
@zer0dahero Covered or not, single coil pickups in hollow-body guitars hum a lot more than single coil pickups in solid-body guitars where all of the cavities are lined with copper foil or painted with conductive paint.
Hey man I'm looking for a hum-bucker sound, I know that the means are single coils, but I'm between this or the vintage 59 pickups, I just noticed that Mean 90 give a little hum or is it just your vid quality?
Would they work in a Neck.-thru Full Mahogany Explorer ?
I hate the stock Pickups, they sound lifeless to me, clean sounds aren't possible, i need a Pickup with Character and Dirt, but with very good Cleans too ?
I have GFS Mean 90's in 2 of my guitars. I LOVE P90's....better tone and bite than humbuckers. That tone kicks ass in that guitar you are playing. Whatta nice sound!
w1av 4 months ago
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Beermaker2000 5 months ago
Good call on the old Rush. Mean sounding pups! I would have never guessed that was a hollow/semi-hollow axe!
andrewt248 5 months ago
Couldn't have played better music, man. Awesome stuff!
Despotes518 5 months ago
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Despotes518 5 months ago
that pickups got some guts and some snap!
drubicle 5 months ago
That's the thing about single coils in a hollow-body (or semi) guitar. You can't shield those bad boys as you can't with a solid body guitar. DC (the head tech boffin) at GFS told me that their NYII neck pickups are RWRP. So maybe the Mean 90 neck ones are too. That would cut down on the humming when you use neck & bridge. As for me, I just use humbuckers on hollow bodies and split the coils when I want single coil tones.
Hoopermazing 1 year ago
@Hoopermazing The thing with this kind of pick ups is that the PU cover is solder and properly grounded (should be grounded) so that provides all the shielding you need for the PU (thats why they covered them way back in the day.) But if the wiring is not proper braid shielded wire, you'll get noise from the wires, all the wires not just the ones from the PUs. Especially when floresent lights are on or if there's a tv on in the room.
zer0dahero 5 months ago
@zer0dahero I beg to differ.Even with grounded pickup covers, single coil pickups are going to hum like a mother in a hollow body or semi-hollow body guitar. You can get the same degree of shielding that you do with a cavity that can with completely shielded. Moreover, the wires, pots and switches aren't in discrete shield-able compartments either. My fully shielded Telecaster (w/ a hot Tele bridge pup and a P90 Neck) barely makes a sound even with fluorescent lights. My jazzboxes, not so much.
Hoopermazing 5 months ago
@Hoopermazing I guess everyone's experience is a little different. You're experience has you differ from the very reason pickup covers where designed to do and why shielded hook up wires were also used. Have you wondered why way back then the engineers decided to use shielded hook up wire and completely cover the puckup with a metal grounded cover. I'm sure they had a reason and they documented it. Then again, we have way more RF interference than decades ago so more is needed.
zer0dahero 5 months ago
@zer0dahero Covered or not, single coil pickups in hollow-body guitars hum a lot more than single coil pickups in solid-body guitars where all of the cavities are lined with copper foil or painted with conductive paint.
Hoopermazing 5 months ago
GR8 sound!
ace69er 1 year ago
Hey man I'm looking for a hum-bucker sound, I know that the means are single coils, but I'm between this or the vintage 59 pickups, I just noticed that Mean 90 give a little hum or is it just your vid quality?
Thanks for the time man !
andrew4773 1 year ago
@andrew4773
Getting my Sheraton back tomorrow. Had the SD 59's taken out to slide Gibson P-90's (P-94) in. Can't Wait~!
lafnbuddha 6 months ago
Sounds awesome. I just put the Mean 90's into my Sheraton and I love em! They scream.
pjkilp 1 year ago
Would they work in a Neck.-thru Full Mahogany Explorer ?
I hate the stock Pickups, they sound lifeless to me, clean sounds aren't possible, i need a Pickup with Character and Dirt, but with very good Cleans too ?
Thx
gacktology 2 years ago
What is the difference with the dream 180??? Why do you prefer the mean 90?
eliecillo 2 years ago
@eliecillo the dream 180 is a humbucker, different sound capabilites than the mean 90.
AcousticTransmission 2 years ago
I gotta demo of these if you wanna check out the neck pup before you buy
TheGuitarist365 2 years ago
Nice, i am installing the mean 90's in my Shery hopefully this weekend before I play out on Sat nite! Did you use the "cheat method" on the install?
GuitarLessonSarasota 2 years ago
Would you be able to give a clean demo of the 90?
JMcG92 2 years ago
I gotta full demo of them on my channel.
TheGuitarist365 2 years ago
Nice, might have to order a set for my own Sheraton!
JMcG92 2 years ago