McCarty with P90s anyone?

JasonB5232

JasonB5232

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Been eyeing 98 McCarty with P90s on Reverb for awhile and wondering if anyone has one and wanted to get your thoughts. I have a PRS 20th Anniversary that I love with Dragon II pickups, Tele & Strat. I expect the quality to be good. So I'm really just looking to round out the tonal palette.
 
The red mahogany with the moons? I don’t own one of those but most of my guitars have P90’s now. I installed a pair of Duncan P-rails on my 06 Singlecut trem and 90% of the time I’m using the P90s. The P90 in the P-rail is the Vintage 90. I recall reading that originally PRS was using Duncan’s but might be wrong on that so don’t quote me on it. If you don’t have a P90 guitar you should pick one up, and I’ll bet that one will sound and play very good.
 
The prs formula has changed a lot since 98. It may be great it may be average. If its priced well that you wont lose money trying it, try it.
 
Admin M@ said:
IMO, any McCarty is likely to be a great guitar.
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I wasnt a huge fan of the older versions from a playing standpoint - it felt very “this does rock and blues, metal look elsewhere” play wise. However that may be OP’s wheelhouse lol.
 
I had my EBMM JP15 up on local used market recently and a guy offered me a trade for one just like that. It was a 2005 McCarty Soapbar light amber finish.
 
la szum said:
I think I read above where it was all dialed in with Lollars in it.
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Ah, missed that. I was gobsmacked at how similar the prized original 3 PRS/SD P90s in mine were, tonally, to the hum-cancelling Fralins that replaced them. If the old Hamer Special I had back in the '90s had had pickups like the PRS/SD (instead of the overwound SDs that it had), I doubt I would have let it get away. The guitar played great, wonderfully comfortable neck carve. Should never have let it go. Anyhoo, shouldawouldacoulda, I guess. I am sure the Lollars are quite nice, too. :)
 
IIRC, mine was made in 1998. It's a solid color one. It had Duncan's in it from the factory, but I put some Fralin
hum cancelling P90's in and have been enjoying the lack of noise in a few of the places I've been playing.
 
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