What pots to use with P90 pickups?

For humbucker pickups and P90 pickups, we recommend 500K audio taper pots. For standard single coil pickups, like those on Stratocaster or Telecaster electric guitars, we recommend 250K audio taper pots. For single coil sized humbuckers, like our Little 59, Red Devil or JB, jr, and Rail pickups, we recommend 250K pots.

Can I use 500K pots for active pickups?

Active pickups are usually ok with any resistance between 25K and 100K without behaving erratically. If 250K/500K pots are used with active pickups, the controls usually acts more like switches than pots and if 25K pots are used with passive pickups, the sound will be exceedingly dull.

What are P90 pickups good for?

P90 pickups are good for a range of different styles of music, because they have a versatile tone. They’re well suited to blues, country and rock. The only style that they aren’t usually as well suited to, is metal. This is because you can get some humming when you crank up the gain, as they only have one coil.

What’s the difference between 250K and 500K pots?

The rule is: Using higher value pots (500K) will give the guitar a brighter sound and lower value pots (250K) will give the guitar a slightly warmer sound. This is because higher value pots put less of a load on the pickups which prevents treble frequencies from “bleeding” to ground through the pot and being lost.

Can I use 250K pots with Humbuckers?

Traditional Humbuckers can sound dark and muddy through a 250K pot, and Single Coil Strat or Tele Pickups can sound shrill and “crispy” through a 500K pot.

Are 250K pots better than 500K pots?

Are P90s good gun?

The FN P90 is a fundamentally good weapon and one of the best submachine guns available on the market. Its only flaw is that the Cold War ended and body armor clad Soviet paratroopers ceased to be a threat to Western Europe just as the P90 entered production in order to counter that specific threat.