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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Spitfire on March 25, 2008, 03:43:49 PM

Title: SKA
Post by: Spitfire on March 25, 2008, 03:43:49 PM

im going to be going to play in a ska band soon, and im just using my SZ with dimarzios in at the moment.. but it just doesnt get that ska twang for the off beat chords at all... what bridge pickup would suit for ska??

i'll probably put it in my SG as im in the process of kitting it out at the moment anyway.

cheers, Dave.

Title: SKA
Post by: indysmith on March 25, 2008, 04:25:19 PM

I'd say MQ - P90s are great for ska :D

Title: SKA
Post by: Spitfire on March 25, 2008, 04:27:16 PM

i was thinking that, but i dont want to put p90s in this guitar...

Title: SKA
Post by: indysmith on March 25, 2008, 05:35:41 PM

How about a humbucker with the sort of sound you do want on that guitar, and a coil split then?

Title: SKA
Post by: ericsabbath on March 25, 2008, 10:41:18 PM

riff raff

Title: SKA
Post by: Philly Q on March 25, 2008, 11:13:13 PM

Quote from: Eric Hellstyle

riff raff

+1, I think.  And maybe you could wire the humbuckers out of phase, to give that thin reedy tone in the middle position?  

Might work, although I have to say I'm no ska fan so I'm not 100% sure what the guitar sounds are like.  I do remember the 2-Tone stuff from the late '70s - didn't a lot of those guys use Teles?

Title: SKA
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 25, 2008, 11:18:55 PM

The Specials bloke had a Strat and The Selector bloke had a Strat.
Madness had a some SKA things going in the early days and Chris guitar bloke had a Tele.
The Beat bloke had a Vox Teardrop.
Not good with names from that era!

So you really need a single coil. Probably with a compressor and also a Wah open.

A Humbucker would be too full and fat sounding.