It Took Me FOURTEEN Years to Get These Pickups...

🎸 Break through the lost intermediate plateau in 2023 - Bulletproof Guitar Player 2.0 coming soon ➡️ https://bit.ly/Bulletproof2023 🔴 Sign-up to bulleproofguitarplayer.com today - https://bulletproofguitarplayer.com/ Subscribing gives you full access to ALL site content including both of my original online guitar courses: ✅ Bulletproof Guitar Player Part 1: Master the Fretboard - http://bit.ly/BGPPart1 ✅ Bulletproof Guitar Player Part 2: Advanced Concepts - http://bit.ly/BGPPart2 Those courses give you a combined 8+ hour long guide to fundamental music theory for guitar players. You can find them in the COURSES section of the site. Signing up also gives you access to the EXTRAS section, where you will find bonus material including lick packages and additional content based on my free YouTube lessons. This section of the site gets updated with brand new content every single month, so your subscription consistently grows in value at no additional cost to you! Here's an example of the type of content you can find in the EXTRAS section: ✅ Spicy Licks Package 1 (10 Licks Inspired by Joe Bonamassa & Eric Johnson): http://bit.ly/SpicyLicksPackage1 ------------------------------------------------------------ In today’s video, I decided to talk about my new(ish) guitar. It’s an Eastman SB56 - a beautifully handcrafted guitar that speaks through a pair of Lollar Soap Bar P90 pickups. Until I got the guitar, I can honestly say that I didn’t truly know what P90’s sounded like. Of course I had heard them in countless videos and records over the years, but the experience of playing with them through my own rig for an extended period of time is what it took for me to finally realise ‘oh… THAT’s what’s been missing from my collection’. I felt the same way about compressor pedals until I got my first one - I understood the concept behind them but it wasn’t until I got to experience one in person that I truly heard what all the fuss was about. In this video I discuss the three main P90 pickup traits that I have personally noticed from playing this guitar over the past 2-3 months. One of them, is that the pickups effortlessly blend into a range of playing styles. Clean tones sound glassy and crisp, albeit with a touch more low end hanging to each note than what you would get with Strat-style single coils. However, turn on an overdrive or distortion pedal, and you’d be forgiven for assuming you were listening to humbuckers. It’s as if the mid-range frequencies bark and growl more as you dial in more gain. They don’t sound as bass-heavy as humbuckers and there is a twangy element to the tone, but as I mention in the video, it’s a very different experience to playing through Strat single coils with heaps of gain. The guitars volume controls work absolute wonders with P90’s. Dial in a crunch tone with a good amount of gain and the guitars volume on 10, then roll it back to around 4 and listen to how wonderfully the sound cleans up. It’s not just a case of lower volume and less gain - rolling back the volume will re-introduce some of the high-end frequencies that compliment clean tones and are not heard as much when playing through crunch and lead tones. I remember hearing Jared James Nichols talk about his signature Epiphone guitar, which has one P90 bridge pickup. When talking about the volume control, he mentioned that each number on the dial gives you a different tone. I completely understand what he means by that now. Every number on the volume knob gives you a unique and most importantly, usable tone. The Eastman SB56 is a fairly heavy guitar - it’s a one piece mahogany body with a maple cap, mahogany neck and an ebony fingerboard. It’s fair to say that it’s constructed very similarly to a Les Paul and in my experience, Les Paul’s with humbuckers can sound quite bass heavy, especially when playing on the neck pickup. This can make it hard to dial in clean tones that are light and not too heavy on low-end. However, that’s not the case with the Lollar P90’s in the SB56. It doesn’t take much effort to get a nice jangly clean tone that would cut through in a band setting. What do you think of P90 pickups? Are there characteristics of this pickup type that I didn’t mention in this video? Let me know by leaving a comment below! Learn more about the Eastman Guitars SB56 - https://www.eastmanguitars.com/sb56_n_gd ------------------------------------------------------------ Follow Bulletproof Guitar Player on Instagram ➡️  / bulletproofguitarplayer   Follow Ross Campbell on Instagram ➡️  / rosscampbellguitarist   Facebook page ➡️  / rcampbellguitarist