Re: Favorite -go to- neck humbucker
EMG 81
Black Winter Neck.
I can never make the typical 7-8K humbucker work for me as a neck pickup, personally. I always find them too scooped, chirpy, and, most of all, underpowered compared to the style of bridge pickups that I like.
I do like the Phat Cat Neck's clean tone, especially since it's spanky, clean, and not boomy, but it's not thin like a Fender-style single coil (or a split humbucker) can be. I feel it wouldn't be able to keep up with the Black Winter-B or the SH-6B that I like, though.