P90 – Humbucker
Vintage P90 Tone, Humbucker Looks
$150 – $300
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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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.
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.
Sound Samples for P90 – Humbucker:
About this Sound Clip:
All sound samples are played from Neck Position First and Bridge Position Last.
Tonal Graph For P90 – Humbucker:
The tonal graph below for our P90 – Humbucker features Lows, Midrange, Highs, and general Output.
Attack: Stiff & Percussive
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
Gibson-Style instruments
Phase Reversible
Coil Splitting
2-Conductor Lead
Phase Reversible
Tech Specs:
See below for the estimated DCR and Polarity Information for our P90 - Humbucker.
| SPECIFICATION | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Neck Ohm Reading: | 8.8K 1 |
| Bridge Ohm Reading: | 10.3K 1 |
| 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 2 |
Additional Technical Info:
1 Ohm Readings can vary due to a multitude of factors, including ambient temperature, multimeter calibration, different wire batches, and other factors. Due to this, ohm readings are approximate. Learn more about Ohm Readings here.
2 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.
P90 – Humbucker Dimensions:
Customer Reviews
71 Genuine Reviews for P90 – Humbucker
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After going through 4 sets up PAF clones recently for my 2001 PRS McCarty, I decided to try the neck humbucker P90 5% underwound, and was blown away by the clarity and depth. The PAF clones just were not doing it for me, especially in the neck position. So much so that I ordered the bridge version 5% underwound, and it was the tone I had in my head that was so elusive for me. I have never had a guitar with P90s, but the sound samples on the Fralin website intrigued me enough to try them and wow! My McCarty is now so hard to put down. Great clarity with that single coil chime. Sounds amazing clean and with overdrive and anywhere in between. Love it. Highly recommend these pickups.
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Just tried these out and absolutely amazing sound to them. You can get a nice country twang out of the bridge. 5% underwind was the way to go!
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Amazing sound
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I got the P90HB 5% underwound for the neck position of my Fender Telly Nocaster Custom Shop. I had another boutique P90 HB before but the Fralin blows away: more balanced and unlike the other it sounds amazing with all tones from clean to heavy crunch
The 5% underwound matchs perfectly the Telly bridge pickup as well as Fralin’s support told me.
If you looking for a P90 HB size, the Fralin is your best choice -
I just installed a pair of P90s on my Les Paul Studio and it sings like an angel! I have a new guitar now. Absolutely in love with these pickups and the Fralin team!
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Great sounding humbucker sized P90. Very dynamic and open sounding. In-phase with my (non Fralin) bridge, (thanks again) and surprisingly they both compliment each other very well. Couldn’t be happier.
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Replaced the 490R neck pickup on my Howard Roberts Fusion III and they sound amazing. Definitely going to replace the bridge pickup too!
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Fantastic. My SG now sings exactly the way I want it. These are amazing pickups. I’m already thinking about the next set I want to get.
The ordering, shipping and customer service were all top notch. Next time I’m in Richmond I want to stop by to thank everyone in person!
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I got the P90HB 5% underwound A4 model for the rhythm position of my ‘97 Es-175. I highly recommend this pickup! It delivers fat and punchy P90 tone that I desire for jazz and blues chords and single-note riffing. Hardly distinguishable from a ‘true config’ P90, and definitely a pleasant change from the guitar’s original humbucker.
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I have 3 sets of Fralin pickups and 2 sets on order . Trust me I’m far from done lol . Last set was a P90 humbucker I put in a US Guild Starfire IV . They have tremendous tone and harmonic richness , touch sensitivity galore . Trust me the ( voodoo ) is all there . I have another soap bar set in a 339 and a Jazzmaster set as well . All of these pickups have rich , harmonic old school tone that we all search for . Well , 2 more sets on order . The cost is irrelevant when the tone is so damn sweet .
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I replaced the original pickups in my Les Paul Custom Classic with Fralin humbucker-sized P90’s. The ’57 Classics weren’t working for me — too dark. The Fralin P90’s are fantastic, they’ve really made the guitar come alive. It’s like a new guitar to me now, can’t put it down. Highly recommend.
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