Compare

Lindy Fralin Hum-Cancelling P90 With Alnico Rods vs Seymour Duncan Vintage P-90 Soapbar (SP90-1)

Compared with the Lindy Fralin Hum-Cancelling P90 With Alnico Rods, the Seymour Duncan Vintage P-90 Soapbar (SP90-1) has a true single-coil design that hums.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecLindy Fralin Hum-Cancelling P90 With Alnico RodsSeymour Duncan Vintage P-90 Soapbar (SP90-1)
DC resistancediffers8.8k8.22k
Inductancenot measurednot measured
MagnetAlnico 5Alnico 5
CoildiffersHum-cancellingSingle coil
Resonant peakdiffers4.3 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load)
Bass (tone chart)differsno chart5 / 10
Mids (tone chart)differsno chart5 / 10
Treble (tone chart)differsno chart7 / 10
Slotneck P-90 soapbarneck P-90 soapbar
Traitsmoderate output, noiselessvintage output

How close on each spec

100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works

Output
90
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
100
both Alnico 5
Coil
0
one hums, one doesn't

Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).

Videos

No videos for either pickup collected yet.

What players and reviewers say

No forum posts or review excerpts for either pickup collected yet.