Author Topic: Mississippi Queen in an Ash Strat? (Read 2221 times)

Brow · « **on:** January 03, 2008, 05:50:18 PM »

Hello.

I'm about to come into possession of an Ash bodied Strat with a Maple neck and Rosewood fretboard and was just thinking what pickups would work well in it?

I'm thinking of Apaches in the Middle/Neck positions and a Mississippi Queen in the bridge position, so that it differs from my other Strats which are either HSS, SSS or (soon to be atleast) HXX.

Was just wondering if anyone has tried a MQ in a Strat, and what they thought of it?

Thanks for any info.

Brow · « **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:36:11 AM »

No-one's tried a MQ in a Strat?

machine_of_god · « **Reply #2 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:39:23 AM »

Guess not ;)

I bet it'll sound pretty good though. Being single coil and all. It will most likely have similar tonal characteristics to a regular ash strat with regular single couls, but will have the added fatness and bite of the P90 pups.

Probably... 8)

Henk · « **Reply #3 on:** January 04, 2008, 07:12:01 AM »

I allways thought alot of singles with 'hot' signature sounded pretty much like a P90 but better so i dont understand what would be the benefit from a P90 bridge, also i think its unlikely a MQ is made F spaced.

And even then, would it be better then an apache bridge? My guess is NO it wont

A splittable PG Blues would be nice in the bridge i think.

gwEm · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2008, 10:13:09 AM »

i thought i'd chime in due to the negative comments so far.

quite a few fender style guitars have come out in the past few years with P90 pickups, obviously its a good idea.

although p90s are single coils, i believe the fender bell like tone comes alot from alnico pole pieces, which obviously p90s don't have. p90s have gibson baseplate and big fat magnets mounted on them, again different from fender pickups.

as for better/worse than an apache, who can say? they are very different pickups. also, i don't believe 50/53mm spacing makes as much difference as people think audio wise - obviously though the right spacing looks better ;)

why not a MQ bridge with slow hand middle and neck?

Brow · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:12:46 PM »

Hey guys.

Thanks for the posts.

I s'ppose I should explain my reasoning for the MQ/Apache pairing:

I currently have a set of aged Mothers Milks in the 'BrowCaster' (a heavilly modified, unknown brand Jap Strat), which is my only SSS Strat.

I have a Crawler and 2 Irish Tours in my 1993 Fender Strat.

A pair of Slow Hands (with a baseplate on the bridge) in my 76' Music Master.

Stock (I think) HSS set in my 86 Jap Strat, but this will be going to a single or pair of VH2s.

I've really liked the clips and live tones of the Apaches I've heard and tried myself, but I don't think I need another SSS Strat, hence the idea of the MQ for something a bit different :)

Kilby · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2008, 06:01:29 PM »

I tried to reply yesterday, but the network I was on refused to allow posting :(

When I was trying out my Nanohead I was using a P90 equipped strat (don't know what body wood though) and I thought it gave an excellent tone.

With the Nanohead I got the most excellent La Grange (ZZ Top) intro tone (around the section where it goes from the strat tone to the heavier riff. It had a lovely snarl to it.

I also tried one of those squire teles with P90s and it moved the tele a tone with much of a growl than one would expect.

Rob...