NPUPD (New Pickup Day) Fralin Hum Cancelling P90

[Jim Soloway]

What it sounds like:

What it looks like:



The Fralin page with all the info
Hum Cancelling P90 by Lindy Fralin: All P90 Tone, No Hum!

[marcwhy]

Nice, Jim! I love P-90s for jazz!

[pcjazz]

Sounds great Jim. Is this the underwound version? Alnico 6 or Neodymium?

[gitman]

I would really like to hear these pups in an archtop like an ES-175 and demonstrated by a player who uses a pick - lots of clips are available with original P90‘s in all sorts of styles incl. straight ahead jazz but none with these noiseless ones … anyone ?

[Jim Soloway]

Sounds great Jim. Is this the underwound version? Alnico 6 or Neodymium?

I actually have no idea. I got it from a local tech friend who just happened to have it on hand when I was asking about a hum cancelling pickup for this guitar.

[pingu]

very nice !

does that pu switch get in your way much

[RJVB]

The Fralin page with all the info

Actually no, I cannot seem to find any explanation how they achieve hum cancelling with (presumably) a single-coil PU?

Also can't seem to find if they make a floating version.

[John A.]

Actually no, I cannot seem to find any explanation how they achieve hum cancelling with (presumably) a single-coil PU?

Also can't seem to find if they make a floating version.

Do a google image search for Fralin hum-canceling p90. They have two coils mounted “sideways” with one set of magnets between them.

[Hammertone]

There are a few designs out there.

[GuyBoden]

Custom Handmade P90 Humbucker
Custom Handwound Replacement Vintage and Modern Humbucker Pickups: P90 Sized Humbucker - Dogear


Custom Handwound Replacement Vintage and Modern Humbucker Pickups: P90 Sized Humbucker - Dogear

[RJVB]

They have two coils mounted “sideways” with one set of magnets between them.

Not really a single-coil design anymore then, is it

[John A.]

Not really a single-coil design anymore then, is it

Nope. Single coils can’t be hum canceling*. Whenever you see a pickup described as a hum-canceling version of a (tele, strat, p90, etc) pickup, it’s a safe bet that there’s another coil somewhere .

*some can be almost as quiet via shielding, e.g. Lace Sensors, but that’s not literally hum canceling in the sense of exploiting phase cancellation.

[RJVB]

*some can be almost as quiet via shielding, e.g. Lace Sensors, but that’s not literally hum canceling in the sense of exploiting phase cancellation.

Nope, that'd be hum prevention or avoidance...

[Hammertone]

The Vineham Super Six pictured above is an old idea, most commonly seen on the Fender Precision Bass, that seems to be re-emerging. Zexcoil does it, Fralin does it with the Split Blade and Split Steel Pole Strat pickups, and so forth.

[gggguitar]

I got a set of Fralin High Output Split Blade pickups for my American Performer Mustang.
They sound very close to the P90s in my Gibson a with just a bit higher output. I think they're fantastic.