Alnico Noiseless P90 – Humbucker
Achieve thick, warm, dynamic tones with our Alnico Noiseless P90 Humbucker. This pickup is completely hum-canceling and features a familiar Fender top-end sparkle.
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Alnico Noiseless P90 – Humbucker FEATURES:
- Alnico Rods for a Fender-type sparkle
- Humbucker housing available in Polished Nickel, Raw Nickel, Gold, and Jet Black Nickel Covers
- Hum-free design for completely noiseless operation
- 49.5mm Standard Spacing works on Gibson-style instruments as well as Fender Neck spacings.
- Wound by hand using our proprietary sectioning technique for a sweet, clear tone
- Wound with USA-Made 42 Gauge SPN Wire
- 10 Year Warranty against manufacturing defects
- Wax Potted to prevent microphonics and corrosion
Sound
The Alnico Noiseless P90 Humbucker is the perfect pickup for those looking for a cleaner, more articulate tone in a Humbucker Cover. Even though we call it a P90, it’s not quite a P90: it has an airiness and sparkle not found with adjustable pole pieces. Also, it’s great for those looking to balance a dark guitar. You’ll find that this pickup stays clean, while still having a fat, beefy midrange and thickness commonly found with P90 pickups.
The Alnico Noiseless P90 Humbucker will not sound like a traditional P90, but one with a familiar Fender sparkle on the top-end. Clean and articulate when playing without distortion. You’ll find that the nuances of your playing will come out as this pickup “breathes” more than it’s compressed P90 counterpart. Chords have an excellent string-to-string definition, and single notes are round and warm. With distortion, you’ll find a breakup that is late and smooth with a familiar Fender Strat-type tone.
Our Alnico Noiseless P90 Humbucker features a pronounced midrange as well. You’ll find that the Alnico Hum-Cancelling P90 Humbucker will still sound fat and warm. The midrange is softer than a P90, but this pickup is fatter and warmer than our Big Single and Twangmaster.
Are you looking for more of a traditional P90 tone? You won’t find that here. This model features a more “Fender” quality to it. If you’re looking for a traditional P90 tone, check out our P90 and Hum Cancelling P90!
Take a listen to our friend Mike Hermans use our Alnico Noiseless P90 in the neck position of his Tele:
Check out the comparison between a regular Hum Cancelling P90 and the Alnico Rod P90:
Tech Specs
See below for the estimated DCR and Polarity Information for our Alnico Noiseless P90 - Humbucker.
| SPECIFICATION | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Neck Ohm Reading: | 8.8K |
| Bridge Ohm Reading: | 10K |
| Neck Polarity: | Reversible with 2-Conductor With Shield Lead |
| Bridge Polarity: | Reversible with 2-Conductor With Shield Lead |
| Magnets: | USA-Made Alnico 5 |
| Wire: | USA-Made 42-Gauge Single Poly Nylon |
| Baseplate & Cover Material: | Nickel Silver |
| Baseplate Leg Depth: | 6mm |
| Recommended Pot Value: | 500K / 300K ** |
| Recommended Cap Value**: | 0.02mfd |
**We recommend a 0.02mfd Cap Value on most guitar and bass pickups. The exception is a Magic Cap, which Lindy prefers on the Bridge Pickup of Fender® guitars only. Learn More about Caps Here.
*Due to the unique design of this pickup, ohm readings are not useful when comparing to other designs | ** Use 300K to tame a bit of the top end.
Sizing
Lead Color Codes
See below for our Lead color codes. For help with matching to other manufacturers, check out this resource here.
Gibson Braided Lead:
2-Conductor Lead:
Alnico Noiseless P90 - Humbucker Questions And Answers:
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I have a Les Paul standard and usually play in the middle position. How well would an alnico rod in the neck and a P90 noiseless in the bridge pair together?
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Q I have a Les Paul standard and usually play in the middle position. How well would an alnico rod ...... Read moreA
Hey Tolu, they would pair together nicely! We overwind the Neck a bit more in this case to help them pair. Let us know in the Notes field on the checkout screen that both pickups are going together and we'll adjust the winding accordingly.
Hi, I purchased a set of Alnico noiseless P90 pups for my tele with a 52mm bridge pup. I wired it just like your diagram, before I even looked on your site to rectify my problem. The problem is it is acting like I reversed the polarity on one pup. "I didn't" unless it's wired wrong at the pup itself as the Black and braided leads are to ground and the white wires to the 3way switch. I have been playing, working and building guitars for 40+ years ...
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Q Hi, I purchased a set of Alnico noiseless P90 pups for my tele with a 52mm bridge pup. I wired it...... Read moreA
Hey Jack, give us a call today at your convenience so we can talk through troubleshooting the pickup. I fear that there's a short in the Bridge pickup. If you have an ohm reader, please take a reading of the bridge pickup - it should read around 10K. If it reads close to half of that, we have a warranty that will cover the defective pickup.
Do these work fine as just a bridge pickup guitar, or do they have to be as a set?
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Q Do these work fine as just a bridge pickup guitar, or do they have to be as a set?A
Hey Hollie, you can certainly purchase the Bridge model only. We recommend selecting 2-Conductor lead just in case you need to reverse the phase down the road. - Tyler
Hi ! Just a question out of curiosity : I just noticed that on the set I received the magnets under the D string are beveled whereas the others are not, what is the reason/purpose to that ?
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Q Hi ! Just a question out of curiosity : I just noticed that on the set I received the magnets und...... Read moreA
Hey Christophe, the beveled D is just how we designed the pickup for optimal tone and looks. Also, Lindy always likes to bevel a magnet the taller it gets.
What do you think about putting the alnico noiseless p90 in the neck position of a michael tuttle classic s HSH ? I’m looking for more character and classic strat neck tone versus the original humbucker which is kind of dark and muddy.
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Q What do you think about putting the alnico noiseless p90 in the neck position of a michael tuttle...... Read moreA If you're looking for a classic Strat tone, the Alnico noiseless P90 will certainly give you that tonality.
Great pickup did my research new this pickup was right for me sounds great looks great
Excellent Humbucker sized P90’s. These sound absolutely amazing!
I was looking for a “strat on steroids” sound for the neck slot in my s2 McCarty and this delivers in spades. 60 cycle hum is incredibly quiet, better than some traditional humbuckers I’ve used over the years.
I’m new to the aftermarket pickup game…, but think I must have started in the right place. The Fralin humbucker-sized alnico P90 found a home as the neck pickup in my G&L ASAT Bluesboy, making it one of my favorite guitars to pick up and play. I’d try to describe the sounds, but probably end up coming off like somebody who was trying too hard (although I’m convinced that “oozing electified butter” would be an appropriate descriptor…, but I digress). All to say: you’ll feel you made the right decision the moment you first hit the strings. Thank you to the entire Fralin Team. You guys and girls rock. ??
If my review had to be in a single word it would be : WOW !!!
I was looking for humbucker routed pickups that would get as close as possible as Jazzmaster’s pickups and was advised the Alnico Noiseless P90. Jon, who kindly answered my many many questions and guided me through my hesitations, told me that they “fall somewhere between P90 and Jazzmaster type of sound” and that is exactly it. Those pickups are really more on the Fender side than on the P90’s one (so if you really are after that exact sound these are not for you), but in the same time they are more beefy than traditional single coil pickups without losing any clarity or being overwhelmingly beefy and mid-rangy.
To sum up the Alnico Noiseless P90 really are “best of both worlds pickups”, they are not P90s, they are not Jazzmaster or other traditional Fender single coils, they are kind of all that at a time ! I do not know how Lindy came up with this wizardry but what I do know is that my search for pickups for my humbucker routed Jazzmaster is over !
The P 90 has great clarity and smoothness. I am very pleased with the sound. I plan to add more Lindy Fralin pickups to other guitars in the near future. Thanks Lindy.
Incredibly warm sounding pickup. Really fattens up the tone in my ultralight guitar. Love that Lindy experiments and comes up with original pickup ideas!
What can I say….it cured my guitar of a stuffy nose. 🙂
I’d obviously heard many great things about Fralin pickups over the years but they were a bit out of my price range then, a couple of years ago I was building a LesCaster (Les Paul flat slab body routed for Telecaster pickups and managed to nab a second hand Fralin Blues Special for the neck……and I was blown away.
Great sparkle while not being too shrill, even though that guitar has no volume or tone pots just the toggle selector and a 220k resistor to ground.
The only guitar I own that was built by an actual guitar company is an original run 2003 Gibson Les Paul Voodoo and it’s always been a bit of a problem child.
I love the feel of it but the stock pickups were way too hot and though I went through many different pickups over the years (EMG ZW set, Duncan P-rails, Duncan\dimarzio P.A.F.s, etc) it was always a bit flabby in the neck on the wound strings.
The best point I got too was with a cheap Tonerider Rebel 90 set (for the price they’re actually pretty impressive pickups) but the neck was still a bit muddy on the low strings and a bit too plastic mids on the high strings and they were pretty noisy ith higher gain setting, which is understandable for standard P-90’s.
Then I decided not to skimp anymore.
Replaced the bridge with a SUHR Thornbucker and saved up to order Lindy’s Alnico Noiseless P-90, largely due to Fralins description and suggestion that it’s a “good choice to balance a darker guitar”.
For me that was completely accurate.
The neck pick up is now clear with a gorgeous sparkle and though it is still a warm sound the low strings a far more focussed and clear, getting just enough of that throaty Blues Special “zing” that I fell inlove with on the LesCaster while still keeping enough of the gruntier P-90 sound.
It’s also DEAD quiet and I do mean DEAD quiet!
On my lead sound (Xotic SL Drive pushing into Slash style gain levels) the Alnico Noiseless P-90 is quieter than the SUHR Thornbucker humbucker thats in the bridge.
The only issue I have is that the two pickups don’t pair well. I’m assuming that’s just a matter of the magnets opposing so a coil split option may work.
Having said that, I don’t feel the need for the middle position anymore.
I used it a lot with the toneriders to put a bit more clarity into the neck sound but the Fralin P-90 does such a great job on it’s own that it’s really not necessary and makes swtching between neck/bridge/neck way better for me (I’m pretty unrefined in my switching technique, I kind of just swat the toggle up or down so being precise enough to get the middle position was always very frustrating).
Also, I’m using it without any volume or tone controls (I never touched then anyway so just decided a few years ago to take them out completely) just pickups->toggle->output jack and it’s not too shrill at all which I’d say suggests it would work just as well in a brighter guitar with appropriately paired volume pot.
In conclusion, for me this pick up has solved a nearly 20 year battle with my favourite guitar to get it’s true voice out and make it sing.
I knew the voice was there (despite many people hating on the Voodoo series) I just needed to find it and Fralin helped me do that perfectly.
Thanks very much to you all1!
I will definitely be back for more when I’m building my next guitar.
Great pickup with good clarity and tone! My wife approves!
I think the description and other reviews have covered most of the lovelies about this pickup, but there’s a little to add. In addition to the big, clear, articulate, balanced, uncompressed and natural tone this pickup captures, it’s worth mentioning how well it sounds through a variety of pedals. With tube overdrive, I get a wonderful singing tone with half the gain I need for other pickups. Most notably this pickup holds solid tone through a range of phase, delay, chorus and other ambient pedals that often mask tone. I have this as a neck pickup in an Ibanez Custom 335 style guitar, with a P-92 in the bridge for a little snarl. With some light compression and good EQ, this sounds very much like a classic P90 which sounds great for jazz, but you can’t really decompress a P90 to make it sound like this one. I am thinking that this pickup might be better thought of tonally as a variant of a Dynasonic, or Supro gold foil pickup, but just “bigger”. So glad it’s in my fleet!!