Lollar Pickups | 1 year ago
CHAPTER THUMBNAILS AND LINKS BELOW
Jason Lollar’s P-90 was one of the pickups that first put us on the map. For many years it has been a consistent favorite of builders and players and is one of our best-selling pickups. Over the decades we’ve been building pickups, a frequent request has been for us to offer a hum-canceling/noiseless P-90 — something that keeps our P-90’s character while eliminating the hum. We work with many studio artists, session players, and musicians on the road where inconsistent power and environmental factors—such as interference from stage lights and other equipment—can lead to a lot of unwanted noise from singlecoils. After fielding countless customer requests, we were inspired to take on the task.
The idea is an interesting one and presents a few challenges. To build a hum-canceling pickup that is true to the tone of the single-coil pickup on which it was based means altering the design in a significant, fundamental way. And of course, that can change the voice of the pickup just as fundamentally. When experimenting with existing designs like stacked pickups and “sidewinders,” we found that we weren’t quite satisfied with the results, so went back to the drawing board.
Lollar Production Manager and pickup designer extraordinaire, Kevin Moe, worked on numerous iterations over a lengthy period of trial and error and ultimately landed on the design for the Lollar DC-90: a new P-90-inspired hum-canceling pickup in a Soapbar size. It checked the boxes we set out to check and was deserving of its own place in our product line. It sounds very similar to our 50s Wind P-90, but with much quieter operation at idle. The name DC-90 is a nod to both its dual-coil (DC) design and its tonal inspiration, the P-90 (90).
The DC-90’s inherent voice is musical and expressive, and of course, much quieter than a single-coil. It shares plenty with the tonal profile of a P-90 with its midrange-forward voice, snap, and natural grind. We’re very pleased to offer this unique model, available now.
Signal Chain: Collings 290 / Line 6 HX Stomp; FX loop send / Lollar Overdrive pedal / FX loop return / US Deluxe (normal channel) / Celestion AType 2x12 IR / Dynamic Room reverb / Zoom F8n audio recorder
LINKS:
For more info or to buy the DC-90: https://lollarguitars.com/dc-90
Lollar Customer Service: Info@LollarGuitars.com
CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS:
Intro - 0:00
Description - 0:43
Bridge pickup, clean - 1:37
Bridge pickup, overdriven - 2:02
Neck and bridge pickups, clean - 2:27
Neck and bridge pickups, overdriven - 2:49
Neck pickup, clean - 3:14
Neck pickup, overdriven - 3:36
Multitrack with various positions - 4:03
Conclusion - 4:11
