What bridge pickup?

[sirahborn]

Hi!

First I want to apologize If I'm make mistakes, I'm not an english speaker!

Now I'm here because I'm looking for a bridge pickup that match with a Mississippi queen on the neck position.
I'm playing alternative rock/pop and I'm looking for something warm to hot,  I'd like to be able to switch from crispy clean to hi gain dirty sound.
A humbucker would be fine.
It has to be powerfull but not too aggressive ( I don't like when trebles are too aggressive with distortion..

Another important thing, I'd like to be able to use the in-between position and keep the same signal output ( as much as possible...)

I'm using a mesa boogie F50 for both clean and saturated sounds..

Thank you for answering!

[kevinr]

Not knowing what your guitar is I would gamble on saying Holydiver or Crawler would be safe bets.

[BigB]

The Crawler bridge is in the "warm to hot" range, should have enough output to match a MQ neck, has a nice chimey clean tone (and is said to split very well FWIW) with a definite vintage vibe to it, and can stand massive amount of gain. It's rather warm and fat sounding with a sweet top-end so (depending on your guitar, cf below) you shouldn't have issues with aggressive trebles, yet keeps enough highs and hi-mids to cut thru the mix.

Now you didn't say a word about the host guitar so it's hard to say if it would be a good match - the crawler has been designed to work best in reasonably bright guitars (strats, LPs etc), but I wouldn't expect much from it on a dark, bassy, full-mahogany axe. Also, it's a bit more compressed than most BKP buckers, which may or not please you. Depending on your guitar and tastes, you may want a slightly cooler, clearer and more open sounding model in the "vintage hot" range.

My 2 cents...

[sirahborn]

Thank you guys for your reply,

Yeah right! The guitar is a klein (steinberger type)  headless H/H, the bridge is a S-Trem, the neck is brazilian rosewood  the body is probably elder I'd say ( regarding to the weight).

I love using the middle position for all my clear sound so I really want the bridge pickup to sound warm and to blur the sound of the MQ.

[BigB]

Thank you guys for your reply,

Yeah right! The guitar is a klein (steinberger type)  headless H/H, the bridge is a S-Trem, the neck is brazilian rosewood  the body is probably elder I'd say ( regarding to the weight).

I love using the middle position for all my clear sound so I really want the bridge pickup to sound warm and to blur the sound of the MQ.

If it's a bright guitar and you're looking for a warm bridge tone and you don't mind a little bit compression (relatively to hi quality low-output vintage PAF-like pups I mean - it's still much more open sounding than quite a few humbuckers I played), then the Crawler bridge very will probably fit your bill.  Modern pickup with a vintage vibe to it, powerful but not over the top, chimey, warm, thick (but not boomy ) clean tones, growly low ends and singing highs on OD, stays well defined and articulate under hi gain.  And very versatile FWIW - except possibly for brOOtalz kind of metal it seems to do whatever I want (and I play quite a few different stylles), and do it well.
 
I have yet to try MQs, but from what I know of P90s, I imagine they should work fine together.  You may want to consider a split or serie/parallel switch too, as it's said to split really well.

This being said, you may want to have a look at the Holydiver too if you're after a more modern tone, but while I've haven't tried it, from the clips and my experience with a couple others BKPs I'd think the Crawler would be a better match for a MQ.

[Telerocker]

The Crawler does well in alder/ash and will fatten up things, but it's not so that the Crawler doesn't cut. It's a matter of re-eq your amp. This pu has enough output to balance with the open sounding MQ.