p90z and the Digitech Brian May modeler

[rdesutter]

I have a G&L custom that's about 10 years old. It has p90z in it. I love them.

I recently bid and won the digitech brian may modeler he used 'Burns Tri-Sonic pickups'. There's a knob that variates the modelers abilities based on a setting that's allegedly made to tune in your pickups (be it single coil or humbucking).

Are p90z in between a single coil and a humbucker? If you had to set a knob that ran from 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock clockwise, where would you set the knob.

7 o'clock=single coil
5 o'clock=humbucker

Here's the what the manual says:
"The Red Special Pedal was designed to work
in conjunction with Brian’s Red Special guitar,
but it can also be used with single-coil or
humbucker-equipped guitars.
The pedal’s proprietary Guitar Knob (outer
ring, second knob from the right) uses Guitar
Modeling technology to transform your
guitar’s tone to sound more like Brian’s.
If your guitar has single coil pickups (like a
StratocasterTM), turn the Guitar Knob to SC.
If your guitar has humbucking pickups (like
a Les PaulTM), turn the Guitar Knob to HB. If
you’re playing a Red Special replica, turn the
Guitar Knob to Red Special.
Note that you can fine tune the Guitar
Knob’s position between the HB and the Red
Special settings, and between the SC and the
Red Special settings (they are ranges). But the
Red Special setting itself is a single point (not
a range)"

Thanks.

[David Schwab]

P-90's are a bit fatter sounding than Strat pickups, so I guess you would set them between single coils and humbuckers.

Just adjust it until you get something you like.

If you want the real thing, check these pickups out:

http://www.adeson.co.uk/

The "Classic British" is an exact copy of a Tri-Sonic. The new Tri-Sonics are made by Kent Armstrong, and you can get those also. They are not the same as the originals though.

Also keep in mind that the Red Special has the pickups wired in series, so when you have two on it sounds a lot thicker like a humbucker. He also has a phase switch for each pickup.

The Tri-Sonics are pretty clean sounding pickups. They are about 7.3K. Adeson makes a May set with each pickups wound exactly like the real Red Special.

I'm building a Red Special for myself, so I've been researching all this stuff.