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I'm not sure if it will suit your style as it might still be too bright. The clean tone is probably good though.

IMO a blend pot is not a great idea for playing with distortion. It adds a lot of series resistance which kills the resonant peak of the pickups. IMO it is generally better to simply switch the pickups in parrallel. Even the middle P90 is quite a fat sound by itself. I would personally avoid...

Duncan 59b is quite fat sounding in middle position. I liked the 59b, but I have since settled on Suhr SSV neck, which is brighter. Depends what you use it for.

Freefrog’s post was interesting. Maybe try 330pF in parallel with 110k across one of the coils for the SH-6. I tried something similar with a SH-14 in an attempt to get a mid boost, but it was not successful. I added small caps across one of the coils, but I did not use a resistor...

There is an Artie De-mud circuit. It works like a bass-cut and can potentially accentuate the mids. The standard values are a 0.010uF cap and 500k resistor in parallel. If you wish to retain more bass, you could try a 0.015uF or 0.018uF cap instead.

Maybe try an A5 magnet, with a set of 1/2” hex screws to make it brighter.

The split tones will be useful IMO. This may be what orpheo was suggesting. Personally I would coil-split to use the 59 screw coil in position 2, bridge + middle. It will quack like a strat if you split the bridge humbucker as well and also be hum-cancelling.

I would choose a brighter pickup for the middle. Eg, SH-1 '59 bridge, Suhr SSV neck, or maybe a SH-1 '59 neck. nevermind.. I saw u already orderd a SH-16 59/custom.

If you zoom in on the PCB panel that Rob Turner is holding in the video, you can see where the PCB has white printing to identify the different coil positions used on EMG 60, 81, 85 models. Rob explains at 6:08 in the video, that plastic spacers are colour coded to identify each of the...

There is a EMG factory tour video on Youtube. At 5:31 it shows that 85, 60, 60A each have a plastic spacer placed flat on the circuit board instead of a magnet. It seems these types have magnets inside the pickup bobbins, so there are NO ferrous components in the design at all. This is...

“Acoustically dull” wasn’t my comment, but you have taken the meaning in a very literal sense. Anyway, I mostly agree with what you wrote about the Acoustic aspect, although not everybody has the same understanding. I see it as a loss of vibration energy at certain frequencies and not at...

I feel the EMG 60 is a bit brighter and more dynamic. IMO it can be a better neck pickup. I read that it has a narrower sensing area so the geometry is more like mini humbucker or a single sized rails pickup. It’s a popular combination with 81 in the bridge.

I think its great that you have particular ideas about what you want, so I commend you for that. Maybe you will get closer with an A2 strat pickup, but I’m interested to know how it will work out the hum-cancelling. With the mini-humbuckers, I haven’t tried the Duncan antiquity, but the 3...

I have a suggestion for your Strat. Route it out so you can put some mini-humbuckers in neck and middle. They could have the combination of soft pick response, moderate brightness, broad EQ, and hum-cancelling that you are looking for. Ideally put: Neck: A2 mini humbucker( n) Middle: A2 or...

Did you check the ohms of the original volume pot after you removed it? If it measured 350k, it might explain the benefit of this upgrade.