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Peerless Songbird "Casino Style" semi- Acoustic. Peerless are a small Korean manufacturer of high quality semi acoustic and acoustic guitars made to the highest specifications, yet at an affordable price. This guitar has undergone out 12-step process to ensure our guitars are perfect. If you like everything about the guitar except the sound, you should definetly change the pickups for something brighter.Peerless Songbird, Natural, in Peerless Hard Case. So, I dont know, maybe it's just not a guitar for me. For a friend of mine (and a great guitarist), it's the best guitar I have, althought I have 2 custom shops fender. It still sound great unplugged and looks like a high end instrument. It doesn't have a lot of jangle or twangness. Mine, like yours, is more in the jazzbox department. The pickups/pot supposed to be great since they are gibson made, but I think they may be better option for P90 in the boutique realm. I also dont like the neck shape it's quite small and feel like modern "c" Fender necks. I learned on the internet that the Elitist Casino have a very small nut (1.625) I think it affect it's playability for me. Mine had a bump in the neck, so I had to make a luthier sand the fretboard and make a refret after. I always though I had a bad one, since everybody seem to love those Casino Elitist. If one of them want's to play guitar someday, I will give it to him (or them). The only reason I still have the guitar, it's because it's a gift of my kid's mother. And then there's Curtis Novak, here of OSG, as well. Bareknuckle in the UK also do great P90s. as do Lollar - so be sure of what you order). How's the guitar otherwise? How does it play? How does it sound unplugged? If it plays well and sounds pretty good unplugged I'd invest in it with a pair of replacement P90s and pots - Lollar are good (as mentioned), but Seymour Duncan Antiquity are also good (provided you order the ones that are tuned to the sound you want - they do sets that are warmer and brighter. I'd imagine that a swap of pickups would see you right. Interesting that yours sounds so woolly - I though the Elitists came with Gibson pots/pickups, no? I've never played a modern Gibson ES330 that sounded totally dead or woolly. The second is a vintage reissue with underwound P90s, and it has a slightly warmer sound, but there's still plenty of sparkle there.Īs Larry said, P90s can go either way - it's more than likely not the guitar, more the pots and pickups. One is vintage and has a set of ridiculously hot old P90s that drive most amps like humbuckers. 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.
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P90s can be anything you want them to be, they can be bright and chiming, and they can be dark and "bluesy".