GFS mean 90 THD Univalve

Showcasing my new Mean-90 bridge pickup in my Sheraton thru my THD Univalve playing some old Rush

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Music

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• GFS
• mean
• 90
• THD
• univalve

[w1av]

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!

[Hoopermazing]

@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.

[zer0dahero]

@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.

[Hoopermazing]

@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.

[andrewt248]

Good call on the old Rush. Mean sounding pups! I would have never guessed that was a hollow/semi-hollow axe!

[zer0dahero]

@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.

[Despotes518]

Couldn't have played better music, man. Awesome stuff!

[drubicle]

that pickups got some guts and some snap!

[lafnbuddha]

@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~!

[Hoopermazing]

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.