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I’m thinking you probably want a different guitar - flog the LP and buy a Trent Model 1.
Imho p90s and PAFs are similar in sound and I find them interchangeable, especially when using gain.
There a tps that shows how to set up an amp and how different pickups react to the settings.
See if you can borrow a paf a like loaded les pal and see if that works. You've changed pickups, change the guitar. Borrow a different amp. Etc.
A couple of practices and a lot of playing at home later, P90s are not the pickups I'm looking for.
They're great, they're raw and have lots of character, and they're more dynamic but... they're actually higher output than the PAFs I'd been trying, and they have more midrange and bottom end. Which which kind of pushed them in the opposite direction to what I was looking for, and meant they weren't as different sounding as I thought they might be.
So if anyone wants an almost new set of humbucker size p90s...
In the meantime I've put the stock humbuckers back in. Both 7.35k, with (I think) ceramic magnets. And you know what? They're fine. They don't have the rich thickness than A2 PAFs have, but they're uncompressed and clear, and actually with more than a little distortion I think they have some advantages over everything else I've tried - that clarity turns into a nice upper mid grind with openness. It'd be absolutely typical if I spent £450 on pickups only to end up back at the stock ones.
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Really, try Alnico 5 PAF-type humbuckers - they'll be about halfway between the A2s and the ceramics.
Unless the stock ones are A5 anyway, which from your description of the sound I think they might be... in which case I'm not at all surprised .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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A5 can give a bit of a lift, as ICBM says.
I still think a Les Paul is the wrong guitar for what you’re trying to achieve, though
You did! So, what's a good low wind a5 Humbucker then?
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I like a much hotter bridge pickup personally, so I'd go for a Custom 5 there, but the '59B is probably what you want - it's just very slightly hotter than the '59N.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Last week I got a Dimarzio Air Classic bridge to try at really like it. That's A5, and a little less output than the A2pro so about where I want it. Nice upper end that's bright without being sharp, clear low end, and no big midrange bloat which I don't think works for the guitar or my style.
I've got a neck version coming from America, and hopefully I can put the pickup question to bed and start enjoying what is, to be fair to it, a really lovely guitar.
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7.5/7.7k, alnico 3. Open, uncompressed, a bit of PAF-like mids but more grit/grind in the distorted sound.
I mean I won't know what I really think of them for a few weeks but...
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The tone is amazing now!
you can see demos on YouTube.