Help in choosing pickup set

[reuvenal0]

Hi
I need help in choosing pickup set for my custom stratocaster (body:Alder ,neck:maple ,Fingerboard:rosewood.)

neck pickup: 59 NECK pickup but can be split coil (turn off one coil and use only one coil) as a standard single strat neck pickup for handrix/clapton sound.

middle pickup: like a VINTAGE STAGGERED STRAT that can be a normal single strat but noiseless and vintage for the clasic start sound like handrix but A little higher output.

bridge pickup: a rock normal humbucker like a JB that can be clean and nice with little gain (like kurt cobin clean sound) but with a overdrive amp can be a good rock sound (led zeppelin, foo fighters)... but if you split coil (turn off one coil and use only one coil) you get a hot single coil (dimarzio fs-1 pickup) for punk tone like the ramones (or like this Fender Custom Shop Imperial Arc 1960 Stratocaster SSS that have a lipstic brigde pickup).

Thanks everyone

 

[daenius]

Re: Help in choosing pickup set

Think you pretty much answered your own question?

All you need is for the humbuckers to be in 4-conductor wiring, which they all are.

59N can be split easily with with a super 5 way switch or a push pull knob
Middle pickup you can probably just run the STK-1
JB in the bridge can again be split with a switch or a push pull

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help in choosing pickup set

For the middle, look at the Classic Strat Stack. For the Bridge, look at the 59/Custom Hybrid, which is more versatile than a JB and sounds great clean. It will also blend better with the middle and sounds great split.

 

[reuvenal0]

Re: Help in choosing pickup set

For the middle, look at the Classic Strat Stack. For the Bridge, look at the 59/Custom Hybrid, which is more versatile than a JB and sounds great clean. It will also blend better with the middle and sounds great split.

does the bridge will sound hot and "in your face" when i coil split it?
what about the neck?

 

[Clint 55]

Re: Help in choosing pickup set

If you want a hotter split tone, you can do a partial split by using a 4k7 resistor to ground.

 

[nsnate02]

Re: Help in choosing pickup set

Get the Everything Axe set like I did for two of mine. Sigler's 920D set has a toggle to split the neck and bridge and a second toggle that leaves the neck on. Lil'59 neck, Duckbucker mid, and JB JR bridge. Love this setup. www.siglermusiconline.com/products/...d-pickguard-duncan-everything-axe-w-2-toggles

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help in choosing pickup set

does the bridge will sound hot and "in your face" when i coil split it?
what about the neck?

The bridge will split to the Custom coil, so it is still pretty hot. Some people like the sound of the 59 split, some don't. It isn't as high of an output as a regular single coil- I don't like it alone, but I like it in conjunction with another pickup (middle, or 1 coil of the bridge pickup).