what pickup should i use in the middle?!?

[Boston Joe]

Re: what pickup should i use in the middle?!?

HS-2 by Dimarzio.

On its own it's has a pretty good traditional Strat tone, but warmer due to it being humbucking. In the second positon with a Hot Rail, you can wire it in series for a fat P.A.F. sound, or wire it in parallel for a throaty Dire Straits tone. Should do the same in the fourth position.

[Rainmaker]

Re: what pickup should i use in the middle?!?

The Hotrails sounds heaps different in neck compared to the bridge right? And they're both quite, bottom heavy, right? That being said...

What about
n: Hotrails
m: Jb Jr. (to compensate for the lack of highs)
b: Hotrails

???

Bee

[Eblis]

Re: what pickup should i use in the middle?!?

Im mostly playing Floyd and Phish type stuff so id like to try to compromise somewhere in the middle of that. The occasional Slayer riff comes out so there is my concern with distortion and hum. Also id like to keep it simple since im new to this...After reading some of these posts and researching this ive realized that this is a serious topic with guitar players. One that i havent given much thought about before since ive been playing banjo for a while now ..thats a whole different thought process in itself...try talking to real banjo players about "tone rings" that will make you insane.
Thanks for the help fellas...

[SOLO GUITAR STEWIE]

Re: what pickup should i use in the middle?!?

I would say vintage rail for the middle it can go clean/spanky as well as decent overdirive sounds.... MHO...

chris