I've two ES330s (basically Casinos with a Gibson logo) and both are pretty close to perfect in my view. It's more than capable of it.īear in mind that you might have some dark pot values in that guitar as well, so give some thought to upgrading those while you are at it. There's a lot of room for interpretation in the P90, so make the guitar do what you want. It's an incredibly popular pickup, the P90, but it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people over the years they've been made (since 1946 or so).
If you like how it plays, have a well known pickup maker wind you something based around your thoughts or around the sound you imagine when you think of a Casino. All of a sudden there was all the brilliance I wanted to hear in that guitar. I had a Casino and put in some cheap Kent Armstrong pickups in my run of the mill model, I still hated the way it played but it sounded good.
I guess you know what you have, or what it sounds like you have. P90s can be anything you want them to be, they can be bright and chiming, and they can be dark and 'bluesy'.
