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I´ve been asked to make p90. But I had trouble with noise in my humbuckers. And I guess making 10.000 turns will squeal. Are p90 potted? The guy liked my humbucker and want me to make p90. But I´m conserned I might kill what he is looking for. A rawsounding, bright (and maybe with little noise) pickup. I´m thinking of just dipping it in a minute or so just to avoid the worst.
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"A rawsounding, bright pickup."
Sounds like a P90 to me. What type of noise are we talking about. Interference from lights, transformers, TV set etc (50/60 Hz hum), or noise from thumping on the pickups? If its the first case potting will do nothing to hel´p reducing that. But if it is the second case then you will indeed reduce the noise by potting. -
Yeah, I had problem with a strange sound from them humbuckers. But when I potted them properly they were quiet. But is this potting something you usually do to p90? I never seen inside one...Comment
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I've heard that since the 80's Gibson has been potting P-90's, but I don't know that first hand. I'm sure everyone else here knows. All the P-90's I ever had were from the 70's and they weren't potted.
Leslie West never got any squealing! Well not the bad kind anyway.
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loose coils, loose magnets, nickel covers can cause squeeling. Other electrical noiss could be 60 or 50 cycle hum, however if you're getting that in a humbucker it may be your mains supply that's got a slight earth problem. Potting wouldn't make interference noises go away.sigpic Dyed in the woolComment
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The strange sound on the humbucker came when I tapped the pickups, not
because electromagnetic noise. I guessed my winding were the cause, but I see that it could be anything. I must secure that everything is tight.Comment
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