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Your cart is empty. Application Authentic P-90 sound in a humbucker retrofit size pickup. Recommended for country, jazz, blues, rockabilly, classic rock and heavy rock.
Description Originally developed in the Custom Shop for Hamer Guitars, a Phat Cat is an actual single-coil P-90 Soapbar that fits under a humbucker cover and drops into humbucker-equipped guitars. The tone is big and fat, er, phat. It uses two Alnico 2 magnets for more sustain and softer attack. Also, the metal covers provide more shielding and noise reduction than standard soapbar covers. Comes with single-conductor hookup cable.
Complete setup Available for both neck and bridge positions in a balanced set. The neck pickup is RW/RP relative to the bridge for hum-free performance when both pickups are used together.
Guitars For use in any humbucker-equipped guitar. Works especially well in balanced instruments with rosewood, ebony or maple fingerboards.
PlayersTom Dumont / No Doubt, Bill Frisell, Steve Pedulla / Thursday
StevenCrash
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
As close to a vintage P-90 as I have ever heard, I love it!
Cake Fighter
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2024
It used to be hard to tell what the best P90 is. Right now it's a tossup between the duncan vintage, the lollar "normal" and the Tonerider Hot P90 which retains all the goodness of the vintage sound while somehow being hotter. It's also a good bit cheaper.Enter the Phat Cat.. It does not sound exactly like the classic P90. It actually sounds meaner. It can still do those beautiful cleans, but you do need to roll of the volume a little bit. Just like a hot P90. Gimp it a little to get those tones, and those tones.... I thought I'd lose something. Nope. By my ears I'm gaining some dynamics in my sound. Especially when pushed. This is becoming my favorite pickup of all time. It's also quieter because of the shielding. Nice bonus. I don't care, I use a noise gate. I'm not going to give up tone for something that can be fixed with a pedal. And I say this with complete confidence: There are ZERO GOOD SOUNDING HUMLESS P90'S. NONE. I love Lindy a lot and even his aren't perfect. This is closer to P90 dynamics. Almost anything else can be EQ'd. Not the dynamics, or a huge hump in the tone like humbuckers have. The best you can do is very close with PAF style humbuckers, or putting Hotrails pickups in things with .022 caps. That sound is so close I do it for mustangs sometimes, while being humless. But it holds, either it hums and sounds good, or it doesn't. Even the best sounding "humless" where you go "oh that's close!" you listen, there's a little hum. Whatever trick they are using isn't fully working. That's why it sounds good. These go GREAT in alder wood guitars with maple fretboards. Just spend 6 bucks and get a 0.022 capacitor for the tone stack if it doesn't already have one. Also, if you have a Duo-Sonic HS like me, the Dark Matter 2 brushed chrome single coil from dimarzio is a great pairing. Get the middle wound one so it doesn't phase.
Aidan
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2023
It sounds just like a p90. Very happy with this pickup on the the bridge of my Epiphone SG special. It’s very warm and sounds like a Les Paul jr. only slightly brighter and “alive” due to the guitar itself. Very crunchy. Punchy bass, clear mids, mellow treble. It looks great too with the cover. Hum and interference isn’t terrible. I’m playing thru a fender champion 20 and it still sounds good despite that being a budget amp. Able to cover sounds from weezer to greenday to deftones. Very versatile. I can clearly hear each note in a chord whether it’s clean or distorted. No mud. I use 500K pots with an orange drop cap on the tone pot. and it sounds great. Not too bright. That’s up to personal preferences though. Overall I would highly recommend this pickup!
Olive
Reviewed in France on August 21, 2023
Tres bon micro p90 puissant rien a dire
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2021
This pickup is super sexy, and sounds amazing. If you’re looking to upgrade a semi hollow es style guitar, this is the one.
Michael B.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021
PHENOMENAL P90 sound and easy to install in any guitar. I installed it in a project Super Strat that I built via buying the cheapest Yamaha for just the neck and body and replaced everything else. Matched with Tesla neck and middle single coils through a 5 way super switch and its tonal perfection!
Mariano Provenzano
Reviewed in Italy on December 21, 2021
Grandi pickup, non c’è che dire, se ti piace il suono dei P90. Anzi, per me, rispetto ai classici P90 Gibson hanno più “grit”, più forza, e mi hanno sorpreso in positivo. Sono delle dimensioni di un humbucker e ti permette di montarli su una chitarra non predisposta per dei P90, nel mio caso una normale SG.Unico problema (risolto con un po’ di fatica) il pick-up al manico e quello al ponte, entrambi Seymour Duncan Phat Cat, erano in controfasce tra loro, È la seconda volta che mi capita con dei Seymour Duncan, ed é il prezzo che a volte di paga con le produzioni “manuali”.
emil
Reviewed in Spain on October 19, 2021
No me gusta que se venden separados. Es mejor el set de las dos pastillas.Gracias y saludos
charliexpop
Reviewed in Italy on August 2, 2019
Great product
Mel O
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2017
IMPORTANT: SEYMOUR DUNCAN PICKUPS ARE WIRED REVERSE POLARITY TO FENDER STOCK PICKUPS.the Phat Cat sounds great in a bridge tele HSS config. Unfortunately, the 2+4 positions are badly out of phase now, quiet hollow, no balls whatsoever. The solution is two switch the hot and ground on the middle pickup, which I plan to do tomorrow.Also, the output is significantly higher than the stock fender single coils, probably double the perceived volume.Duncan needs to include the info clearly in the listing as a courtesy.Annoying to now have to take off pickguard and rewire, but whatever.
Dimestone
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2015
I put this in my B. C. Rich warlock, everyone saidI was crazy, everyone was wrong. This has got the beefy output I was looking for and gives me a lovely crunchy clean tone when I ask, I installed it myself and having never changed a pickup in my life I was worried but the installation was incredibly easy, soldered it the the pick up selector and boom beautiful beefy power.
G. F.
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014
Put these into a custom made hollow body that had no life in the high end.Chose these over a very expensive set of Lollar humbuckers which weren't working for me in this instrument.Loving it. Love the single coil snap, quick response, touch sensitivity, and high end for days (your tone control that can take away the excess, but you can't put it in...)I've got to say, every retrofit I've done with Seymour Duncan has been a great choice, and this time it completely changed my perception of a great playing guitar that had no vibe into an instrument you can't wait to plug in.Worth every freakin' penny.
Hummingbird
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2013
I installed these in a couple of my customers guitars, and since I heard them first hand, I knew eventually I had to own these. When I bought my new Epiphone es-339, the first thing I thought about was dropping these puppies in it, along with taking out the sub par hardware that comes stock with the epiphone. In the neck pickup volume, I used a 250 k pot to give it a brighter tone, then put a 500 k pot in the bridge. This way, I'd have the best of both worlds when mixing them together. After the modifications and new pots (cts), this guitar can rival any on the market. The tone is sweet and it can bite your head off with ease. Well balanced and quite attractive too.
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