Even those on my Casino are not nickel silver and need to be replaced. It's very unlikely the pickup covers on a 96 Casino are nickel silver so the chromed metal covers are in all likelihood restricting much of your high end. Each sounds slightly 'different' from the others which I believe is what Biddlin' was getting at in his response.īut this much I can tell you with a high degree of certainty. Those in my Casino I believe to be early Pro Series models and I'm 100% certain those in my ES339 P90 Pro are Pro Series. The Gibson P90s were grittier in comparison to those in my Epiphone and mine are pre-Pro Series pickups.
When comparing the pickups in my Epi 2008 LP '56 Gold Top to my jam buddies Gibson LP '56 Gold Top we found much the same. To my ears they were grittier and honkier in the mids which I do not prefer. The Gibson P90s which many would say are the classic P90 sound were far less clean and transparent even before being boosted into distortion. What I can tell you from that experience of hearing about a dozen or so P90s compared to one another is for my tastes the Fralin's were the cleanest and most transparent sounding P90s and the SD Antiquities slightly less so.įor me this would be a benefit even when played with more grit and distortion since each note would stand out more on it's own as opposed to being more blurred and buried by the distortion.
