P90 – Humbucker
Finally, achieve incredible P90 tone with a humbucker look! The Fralin Humbucker-sized P90 is a vintage-voiced P90 known for its versatility, clarity, and snarly midrange. With clear lows, thick mids, and percussive highs, we guarantee that the Fralin P90 will inspire you, no matter what guitar or music style you play. As with all Fralin Pickups, you can take pride in knowing we designed, built, and assembled your P90 in Virginia using 100% USA-Made parts.
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P90 – Humbucker FEATURES:
Don’t you love the sound of a screaming P90 Pickup? What’s not to love? Easily one of the most unique and versatile pickup designs out there, the Fralin P90 pushes the limit by using 100% USA-Made parts and a tone that will make your jaw drop.
Whether you play Rock, Jazz, Country, R&B, or Funk, you will undoubtedly stand out in the mix with the pronounced pick attack and crystal-clear lows. Hand-build into a humbucker chassis, you can now have that famous P90 tone in all humbucker-equipped guitars.
We also have a Hum-Cancelling and Hum Cancelling Alnico Rod version of this pickup available.
- Lindy Fralin Original Design: True P90 Tone, now humbucker sized
- Adjustable USA-Made Pole Pieces for Fine-Tuning Single String Balance
- AlNiCo IV Bar Magnets for a smooth, punchy tone
- Hand-wound with 43 Gauge SPN wire and our “Sectioning” technique for unique, dynamic tone
- RW / RP Neck for hum-canceling in the middle position
- Multiple Outputs available for fine-tuning your Pickup’s voice
- Nickel Silver Baseplates and Covers for little to no effect on tone
- Strong and bold – lots of midrange and snarl
- Compensated Bridge for even volume across all pickups
- Hand-built for unrivaled quality control
- Backed by our 10-Year Warranty on manufacturing defects
- 30-Day Risk-Free Exchange Policy
Sound
Get excited – Fralin P90s covers an impressive, broad tonal spectrum.
Featuring a clear neck and an overwound bridge, our P90s have that undeniable thick Single-Coil tone with a distinct wound string, and percussive treble string. The midrange is full, thick, and warm – perfect for adding depth to your guitar.
Are you looking for the traditional Fender-type sparkle? You won’t find that here. The Fralin P90 is all Gibson! For that, we recommend checking out our Hum Cancelling Alnico Rod model.
Whether playing clean or dirty, we guarantee the “3-dimensional depth” that the Fralin P90 provides will inspire you for years to come. Single notes are punchy and clear without sounding tinny, and chords break up with a tight compression that’s guaranteed to push your amp.
And with a hand-wound scatter-wound coil, your pickup is as unique as you are – each coil features a subtly unique voice that will undoubtedly inspire you. Experience what you’ve been missing and give your guitar the P90 voice it was meant to have with the Fralin P90.
It all starts here: our manufacturing process allows us to achieve unparalleled quality control. Lindy Fralin’s P90 in a Humbucker Cover consists of a precision injection mold and USA-Made Steel Screws. We use USA-Made Alnico 4 magnets to make this model scream. Each bobbin is carefully inspected and cleaned before winding.
We wind each pickup by hand, one at a time using our proprietary “Sectioning” technique. This winding technique gives our pickups a sweet, clear tone. Finally, we wax-pot the pickup to and prevent microphonics and preserve the pickup for years to come.
Tonal Graph for P90 – Humbucker:
The tone graph below for our P90 – Humbucker features Lows, Midrange, Highs, and general Output.
Attack: Stiff & Percussive
Tech Specs
See below for the estimated DCR and Polarity Information for our P90 - Humbucker.
| SPECIFICATION | VALUE |
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| Neck Ohm Reading: | 7.2K |
| Bridge Ohm Reading: | 8.2K |
| Neck Polarity: | Counter Clockwise Coil Direction, North to Strings |
| Bridge Polarity: | Clockwise Coil Direction, South to Strings |
| String Spacing: | 50mm |
| Cover Material: | USA-Made Nickel Silver |
| Baseplate Material: | USA-Made Nickel Silver |
| Magnets: | USA-Made Alnico 4 |
| Wire: | USA-Made 43-Gauge Single Poly Nylon |
| Recommended Pot Value: | 500K |
| 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.
Sizing
Lead Color Codes
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Hi, I am interested in buying a set of your P90 Humbucker-sized pickups to replace the stock PRS pickups in my new PRS SE McCarty 594. Do you know if the Fralin P90 Humbuckers are a simple drop-in replacement without any need for additional routing of the guitar? And do you know if they will fit the PRS pickup-up surround frames/rings of the existing stock humbuckers? I do understand of course I will need to change the existing pots and caps. Tha...
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Q Hi, I am interested in buying a set of your P90 Humbucker-sized pickups to replace the stock PRS ...... Read moreA Hey Lance, these are standard Gibson-sized humbuckers, so they are the standard of the industry sized. Our baseplates feature a single mounting hole on either end of the pickup. Some PRS mounting rings have two height adjustment screws on the bass side. You just need to pay attention to that. If you have two mounting screws on the bass side, you'll need to replace the mounting rings.
Hello. Going into an SG that currently has the quick connect stuff. Would these benefit from a wiring upgrade, and what would you recommend? Thanks!
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Q Hello. Going into an SG that currently has the quick connect stuff. Would these benefit from a wi...... Read moreA As it turns out, we do not feature any Gibson quick connect compatibility at this time. However, it is advisable to remove the Quick Connect system entirely and replace it with a standard soldered wiring harness. You can expect better results in tone and peace of mind knowing the soldered harness will last a lot longer than the plastic clips – they are the weakest link in your signal chain by far. We recommend 500K pots and 0.02mfd caps for th... Read more
I have a Godin ultra A6 and looking for recommendations to replace the Godin humbucker factory pickup
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Q I have a Godin ultra A6 and looking for recommendations to replace the Godin humbucker factory pi...... Read moreA
Hey Steven, any standard humbucker will work just fine. Just pay attention to your string spacing. If you want a traditional P90 tone, this is a great choice. We also have it in a hum-cancelling version.
Can a P90 humbucker be made f-spaced for a fender bridge?
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Q Can a P90 humbucker be made f-spaced for a fender bridge?A
Hey Mark, we don't have the covers, bobbins, or baseplates to make the P90 Humbucker in an F-Spaced version - we apologize for the inconvenience.
I have a 3-pickup guitar currently with humbuckers and would like to put in p-90s. Do you make a set of three with slightly increasing output moving from neck pickup, to middle pickup, and then to the bridge? Or do you have a recommendation?
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Q I have a 3-pickup guitar currently with humbuckers and would like to put in p-90s. Do you make a ...... Read moreA
Hey Uri, we normally recommend (2) Neck outputs (one for the middle) and (1) Bridge output - thanks for your question!
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I played this pickup for a month before leaving this review. I like it more every time I play it. It’s everything Lindy describes it to be. I’ve tried a few of the other P90 humbuckers out there, and I must say this is the best one I’ve tried, by far. I got the 5% under-wound and put it in the neck of my Tele. Very clear and articulate, with plenty of P90 personality, but always very clean and clear. Chords sound fantastic with this pickup. Not sure how Lindy does it, but this does indeed sound like a top quality P90. Exactly the sound I was wanting for this guitar.
I was shocked at how good this pickup turned out. Easy to install, sounds great, highly recommended to anyone looking for something outside of your usual humbucker or single coil guitar. Will happily get another when the time comes. Thanks!
I popped these babies into my SG and man! Glad I did. The sound is fantastic out of the box and when I fine tuned the screw heights to the strings, the levels are perfect. Theyvare soooo expressive. Now, I am admittedly more of a single coil guy over a burst bucket, but even so, I’m considering swapping the humbuckers out of my Tele deluxe with some more of these. Lindy Fralin has turned all of my favorite guitars to play into my favorites, and these are no exception.
These pickups are astounding. Far superior to GFS and Seymour Duncan. I believe the perfect description for other humbucker size p90s is ” pinched sounding “. These pickups are open, warm, and glassy. They really brought my PRS hollow body II to life.
1st off, order was fulfilled quickly, packaging was nice, installation support was good.
2nd, the pickup is nice, solid construction, good shielded cable and chrome pickup cover.
3rd, it sounds frikkin good. I never liked the 498T that came in my LP, the Lindy P90 feels so much better, also works great in the center position out of phase with the bridge 490T for that hollow blues tone.
I actually use the bridge pickup now, great for chickin-pickin or with a fuzz for lead tone.
While some may like the 498T, I consider the Lindy P90 a major upgrade, much more responsive and open.
The P-90-Humbucker pick up that I purchased for my parts built Esquire is one great pick up. The tonal range is quite astonishing and it’s got more power than I’ll need. Thanks for a great product, 5 stars.
These pickups are outstanding. They are my first venture into P-90 world, so I put them in a kit guitar that I destroyed and rebuilt, and wonder why I waited so long to try them. I get comments about how good they sound. I will be buying more for future builds. The midrange is fat and musical, and it cleans up nicely when the volume is rolled back.
Highly recommended.
Wow, just WOW! I put a set of these (standard wind) in a 61 SG reissue and got exactly what I wanted…Pete, Live At Leeds, Pete!
P-90 set, Stock windings, snazzy black covers in a PRS Custom 24.
To my ears these are the most musical of pickups! Read all the info above that the Fralin folks provided and ALL the adjectives and superlatives you’ll see, are right here in this set they wound for me and I am sure your set will be that as well. These pickups (to me) are like getting the best parts of single coil high and low end, with extra sizzle on the highs when you crank up the guitar volume knob….all the middle frequencies from a great humbucker….and (the best part) attitude for days when you open them up and wonderful cleans when you back them down. Since I know you’re reading the reviews…just buy these, you won’t be disappointed.
Out of this world customer service. Very efficient shipping. Most importantly, an incredible product. I’ve been a PAF lover my entire 30yrs of guitar playing. I enjoy a single coil from time to time. This is the worlds best pickup. A perfect blend of snarl but a bit of quack. I think I actually prefer this over a PAF. Incredible build quality. This was my first Fralin purchase. I will be back for sure. Epic.