Hello all,
I want to install a bridge humbucker in my SSS Strat to add a little more versatility, and I've got my eyes on the Jazz bridge. I'm hunting an 80s/90s rackmount-era clean tone (I know...), so the Jazz bridge's scooped EQ appeals to me to reduce mid frequencies. I'd likely pair the Jazz bridge with Classic Stacks in the middle and neck positions, and according to the Seymour Duncan product specs, all three pickups all more or less have the same DCR, with the single coils actually being slightly hotter.
My question is this: I do a lot of playing in the second position (bridge+middle), so would installing a low-output humbucker like the Jazz bridge and routing position 2 to combine the full humbucker (rather than just the inner coil of the humbucker) with the middle pickup produce similar sounds to a single coil in the bridge? I like the quacky sounds in position 2, so I'd like to keep them there if possible.
I've read combining a humbucker and single coils in the in-between positions can lead to a thin sound, but I thought matching output levels and combining the full humbucker with the middle pickup might solve this problem.
Anyways, I'm opening this up to the forum. There's not a lot of literature online about the Jazz bridge, let alone about how they pair with single coils, so any advice on this pickup configuration would be great! Thanks!
I want to install a bridge humbucker in my SSS Strat to add a little more versatility, and I've got my eyes on the Jazz bridge. I'm hunting an 80s/90s rackmount-era clean tone (I know...), so the Jazz bridge's scooped EQ appeals to me to reduce mid frequencies. I'd likely pair the Jazz bridge with Classic Stacks in the middle and neck positions, and according to the Seymour Duncan product specs, all three pickups all more or less have the same DCR, with the single coils actually being slightly hotter.
My question is this: I do a lot of playing in the second position (bridge+middle), so would installing a low-output humbucker like the Jazz bridge and routing position 2 to combine the full humbucker (rather than just the inner coil of the humbucker) with the middle pickup produce similar sounds to a single coil in the bridge? I like the quacky sounds in position 2, so I'd like to keep them there if possible.
I've read combining a humbucker and single coils in the in-between positions can lead to a thin sound, but I thought matching output levels and combining the full humbucker with the middle pickup might solve this problem.
Anyways, I'm opening this up to the forum. There's not a lot of literature online about the Jazz bridge, let alone about how they pair with single coils, so any advice on this pickup configuration would be great! Thanks!
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