Black Winter Vs JB in neck

[Mike N]

I’ve got an ESP Eclipse with Suhr Aldrich pickups. The neck pickup is relatively low output, good for the Slash tone but not much else in my opinion so I swapped it for a Black Winter. The BW is great, nice powerful leads that stand out in the mix and a nice split clean tone. I have another guitar with a JB in the bridge and I’m thinking of putting a BW in the neck or another JB. Does anyone know how the two would compare for leads and split clean? Would the JB be too woolly in the lows? I know they put JBs in the neck of the Kiss Epiphone Les Paul’s but I haven’t had a chance to try.
Thanks

 

[Mincer]

Re: Black Winter Vs JB in neck

Welcome to the forum!

I'd pick a BW over the JB in the neck every time. Both sound good split or parallel, however. I just think the neck BW is a great pickup for lots of things, while a JB seems to only work well (to me) with some kind of overdrive.