MetallorHumbucker Style Pickups Bridge and Neck Set for Les Paul P90 Style Electric Guitar. (CR)

I have wanted to play with a p-90 sound for some time but could never justify yet another guitar.Starting with a very playable but rarely used Epiphone SG (g400), I swapped these in using the existing electronics (500k pots 0.022 mike caps). Install was trivia. Black is ground, white is signal. Drop in replacement. This SG is on the mellower side for the guitar type.There has been comment that these are not p-90 bobbins. They are not; neither as wide nor as long as you simply can’t put that into a humbucker footprint. That said, they are certainly wider than a strat pickup and closer to a p-90 in that dimension and you can hear it in the broader harmonic content.The neck lived up to my hopes. Not quite the quack of a full p-90 but powerful, with good midrange and perhaps a touch too much bottom. It is full, authoritative and takes overdrive well, filling out the top end harmonics without being too sharp. Clean, the neck is articulate. I will keep this one in place for sure. Output level is quite high; comparable to the hot hb that it replaced.The bridge feels a bit thin, although it takes overdrive and distortion well enough. I will play with the height and pole adjustment to see if I can fatten it up a bit. Output was ok but not as punchy as the neck.Both pups are surprisingly quiet for single coils, and running both together adds a hint of hum cancelling. I have not explored the sound of both together in any great detail, but first impressions are m’eh. Ok, but not a lot of attention grabbing character.Overall this has been a worthwhile experiment. New tones from an old friend that I will now spend some quality time with. I expect to keep the neck pup for sure as I can really hear the woody voice of the guitar come through. If I can’t get a bit more depth out of the bridge pup, I may switch back to the stock HOTHB8B that came with the guitar. If I learn anything new I will update the review.In short, at less than $50 CAN, these pick ups offer terrific value and very decent quality. Their sound is certainly a pleasant change from this mid-range guitar’s stock humbuckers and I look forward to exploring it.Update: I balanced out the pole pieces and the bridge pickup is now sounding really nice. I am keeping both pickups in place and enjoying the clean and overdriven sounds of both. I have increased my rating from 4 to 5. These are inexpensive pickups but a great deal with very reasonable sound.

They look great on my semi hollow. And the sound is pretty ok. They're loud which is good p90s are usually not very loud. They give a good warm tone. Bridge. A little lack of brightness but overall ok

EDIT: I bought a second guitar (Eart headless) and put another pair of these in it. Still in love.I bought a used Grote second hand for $200 and started setting it up for slide. The OEM pickups were high output humbuckers - nice for the weedle-weedle guys.So I decided to throw in a pair of P-90's for some good ol' slide growl. Holy Henry, these guys gave me that and more. They essentially turn your volume control into an overdrive pedal. 0-6 is nice and clean. You can turn up the amp a bit and there's no hum. Just warm fat punchy jazz tone. Well, 3 and down could be used for that strangled pop arpeggio sound even. But from 6-10, they get nasty. They growl, they bark, they sing. They make suspicious looks at your girlfriend. They grumble from the low strings while you reach for the tone knob to get a handle on that high end siren call of ear shattering treble. Striking the right balance between the gritty sound of brass grinding on the wound strings while maintaining the definition you need on the unwounds. Great dynamic response - if you play fingerstyle, you can get great tone control by modulating your attack.And, bonus time, pickup switching options that make a difference. I've had plenty of guitars that left me guessing which pickup was on.... The bridge is nice and sharp for rhythm, the neck is nice and fat for lead. Two REALLY nice voices that give you some options and flavor.As far as the looks go... Yuck. If they offered this in a solid black or even a vintage cream, it would be greater than Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones having a tickle fight. Alas, they are uglier than sin after 30 days in quarantine.Pro Tip: Their pickup rings are angled. If you do not have a carved top guitar, reuse your current pickup rings.But I don't know if you're getting the "I love these pickups" vibe I'm trying to convey here. I'm a pro guitarist of ~30 years and these P90's blow me away. For $35? I replaced this and the cheapie plastic switch for less than I paid for the last glass slide I bought. Happy dance.Oh, one more downside. I now want to buy a cheap 335 clone to drop a set of these in. Seriously man, these pickups are fantastic. If you play any kind of blues, jazz, rockabilly, country, or if you just want a guitar that sounds great straight into the amp, put these in that Epiphone, Ibanez, whatever Gibson copy and get ready to find that creamy sweet spot in the 6-8 range and bask in it's warmth. Buy a guitar just to put these in, they're that good.

Stuck this on a squire Mustang with upgraded pots kind of a tricky fit with the pick board, but otherwise the sound was fantastic

Ça dépend des goûts, j'ai remplacé les humbucker pour ces P90. J'ai d'autres guitares avec des humbuckers donc ça fait différent et c'est cool!