Righteous Sound Monte P90s
The EoB debut of Righteous Sound Pickups — and some of my favorite pickups ever. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
In this episode the Righteous Sound Pickups Monte P90s take center stage in the Frank Brothers Arcade Goldtop, alongside an extensive pedalboard demo covering the JAM Pedals Rooster Treble Booster, Chase Bliss Habit, Strymon Deco, Boss RE-202, Greer Lightspeed, LPD Seventy4 Deluxe, and JAM Pedals Ripply Fall — into the Benson Amps Monarch and Benson Tall Bird, Benson 2x12" cabinet via the Boss Waza TAE.
Righteous Sound Pickups is built by Josh out of Texas — boutique, hand-wound, built to order. The Monte is their late-1950s-inspired P90 design. Inspired by late '50s P90 designs, the tone is aggressive and raw. High frequencies sing with sustain. Mids are thick with presence and grind. The lows stay tight and chunky — a perfect combination of humbucker and single coil tones.
For a maple-top mahogany Arcade with a Bigsby — a guitar that can tend toward brightness — the Monte's tight, chunky low end and grind-forward mids is a genuinely ideal pairing. The combination of warmth and brightness the Monte brings to this specific guitar is unlike anything that's been in this guitar before. Clean through fully cranked Monarch, these pickups respond with something new at every gain level.
The pedalboard in this demo is extensive and exploratory — this is what the Righteous Sound Montes sound like through a full range of gain and modulation contexts. The treble booster stacking, Chase Bliss Habit tape echo, Strymon Deco saturation and doubletracking, and LPD Seventy4 are each explored in context and combination.
We will be doing much more with Righteous Sound Pickups on this channel.
🎸 Righteous Sound Pickups Monte: https://www.righteoussoundpickups.com
🎸 Frank Brothers Guitar Company: https://www.frankbrothersguitars.com
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
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🎸 Frank Brothers Arcade Goldtop | Righteous Sound Monte P90 (Neck & Bridge) | B5 Bigsby
🔊 Benson Amps Monarch | Benson Tall Bird | Boss Waza TAE | Benson 2x12"
Recording: Universal Audio Apollo x4 | Royer R121 + SM57 + Royer R10 + Sennheiser E906 | Ableton Live 11
