Mississippi Queens

[chris o'donnell]

I'm seriously thinking of putting a Mississippi Queen in the bridge position of my Les Paul, combining it with my Riff Raff neck humbucker.   

What kind of sound can I expect with the two pickups selected at the same time.

I'm familiar with the P90 sound on its own and would be looking to use it for live performances to mix things up a bit.

The bands other guitarist is exclusively a humbucker user and some times it's nice just to get away from the twin humbucker setup. I Normaly use my Pile driver loaded telecaster to do this, but now I'm looking to experement a bit.


Cheers.
 

[Chris Rowberry]

Hi Chris

From owning a set of Mississippi Queens myself and hearing another BKP employee doing a gig with MQs I would say to go for a set rather then mix and matching.

By having the set you have the advantage of having a calibrated set made to work best with each other.
They offer a fat, smooth but loud and open organic tone with plenty of clarity. They sound amazing live out doors or in.

As you said you are used to the P90 tone but these are P90 bobbins cut down, and shape does effect sound a little, so it will be slightly different then normal P90s

Hope this is of help

Chris

[BigB]

The bands other guitarist is exclusively a humbucker user and some times it's nice just to get away from the twin humbucker setup. I Normaly use my Pile driver loaded telecaster to do this, but now I'm looking to experement a bit.

Thread hijacking, sorry - can't comment on the MQ, I have near zero experience with P90 in general, but I'd be interested in a Piledriver set, so if I may ask how they work for you (and in which context - style, amp etc...). To be true, I'm after a fatter tele sound, but I'm worried I'd loose too much of the tele character (specially for cleans on the neck) with PDs, so any comment on this welcome.

TIA.

[chris o'donnell]

thanks Chris.

I'm thinking of the calibrated set, although I cant ignore how tight money is right now and dont want to jump into anything. From what you tell me I think I would really like to give th MQs a go and see if there is a significant diference to the band as a whole. Whith both guitarists on humbuckers and similar set ups it can get a bit jaded sometimes.

On the Pile driver set,  I use them for heavy rock and they work really well with my Bassman 4 x 10. I can compete with a les paul and marshall half stack and give something diferent to the overall sound of the band. I don't play a lot of clean tones but when I do I'd say that the tele charcteristic is still there in spades althouogh not ultra twangy to my ear.
I put a four way swith in the tele and this cover all bases IMHP.

If you need a bit of oomph from your tele I'd recommend them to anyone in that catagory.

They are heavy little buggers and the volume control is the key to getting the best out of them.

Hope this helps.


Cheers. 

[BigB]

On the Pile driver set,  I use them for heavy rock and they work really well with my Bassman 4 x 10. I can compete with a les paul and marshall half stack and give something diferent to the overall sound of the band. I don't play a lot of clean tones but when I do I'd say that the tele charcteristic is still there in spades althouogh not ultra twangy to my ear.
I put a four way swith in the tele and this cover all bases IMHP.

If you need a bit of oomph from your tele I'd recommend them to anyone in that catagory.

They are heavy little buggers and the volume control is the key to getting the best out of them.

Hope this helps.

Thanks a lot for the answer - and yes, it does help.

[Jazz Rock]

I only have experience with the MQ neck, but I love this pickup. I am using it with a Mule bridge and the middle position sound is just amazing, especially after playing a bit with the guitar knobs.

So I can confirm that IMHO a HB/P90 combination is brilliant. I would nonetheless mention as well that having a P90 in the neck I would probably never go back to a HB in this position... Having said that, I think I have just been converted to P90s full stop. If I could build / have someone build my dream guitar, it would have to have 3 P90s!