HSP90: Mississippi Queen or Supermassive for Telecaster

[SuperMoos]

Hi all,

What would you guys recommend for an Alder Telecaster bridge pickup: MQ or SuperMassive?
I play mostly Rock (Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters style), so it's mostly higher gain stuff.

Biggest difference I see in the graphs on the BK site is that the SuperMassive has a huge amount of bass, compared to the MQ.
I am leaning towards the MQ, for its versatility. I'm just a bit worried it will sound "thin".

Opinions are highly appreciated! :)

R.

[Dave Sloven]

I have the Stockholm, and while it looks like it has a 'huge' amount of bass on the graph that is only by comparison with the MQ etc ... it is a pretty normal pickup really and still has a distinctively P-90 character.  The Supermassive would be somewhere in between.  I would guess that the Supermassive would be equivalent to a Cold Sweat (or maybe less) in terms of output and bottom end, the Stockholm is more in the Nailbomb ballpark.

[SuperMoos]

Alright, thanks for the input - so basically more low-end but still versatile?

Anybody using an MQ for gain stuff?

[Dave Sloven]

People do use the MQ for gain stuff, especially in the neck position, but if you are wanting to do palm mute type stuff I would recommend a Stockholm or Supermassive.

There are some videos of the Stockholm and Supermassive made by forum member littleredguitars2 on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-lRkd1txBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfIprHsMwWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijedTwqEZZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneYhtYzXLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZT_8WUT8oc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1CbkGiBOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3IkBFHe-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVjMQDqxjM

[Piplodocus]

I can't comment that much on the bridge, but my middle supermassive (which is actually a neck one) doesn't sound that bassy. Not compared with my Nailbomb bridge at least. I'm guessing it's not gonna have LP levels of fatness if in a telecaster either. I love playing bluesy stuff on it too a lot of the time so it's like an extra fat single coil to me.

So not the best answer as I don't have direct comparison experience to the Stockholm or MQ, and it's a neck in a middle position, but I got it based on reading it retained more of a classic P-90 character than the hotter stockholm, but I still figured I wanted something pretty rocking so seemed like a good middle ground starting point. It's certainly not a one-trick 'heavy only' pickup in this guitar by a long stretch.