Not Another Best HSS Setup Recommendation

spartandawg2004

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I hate to do it because I'm sure it's redundant but.....I need a recommendation for pickups for a HSS setup. I play lead guitar ay my church which is combination of multiple genres, gospel, blues, R&B, and soul. I play a lot of lead on neck pickup and usually install a blender tone knob so I mix in the neck pickup with the bridge pickup. I usually use position 2 for rhythm playing muted single note rhythm. I DO NOT like the scooped John Mayer sound or weaker pickups. I already have a guitar with Lollar Blackface in the neck and middle and Lollar Imperial in the bridge (the Imperial is not enough output in the bridge). I have another guitar with 2x Yosemite pickups in the neck and middle and a SD JB in the bridge and I love it. Just looking to add another guitar to my collection. Thanks in advance.
 
For my HSS setup I’m using a Classic Stack Plus stk-s4 in the neck and middle with a Whole Lotta Humbucker neck in the bridge. The bridge model isn’t that much hotter and I happened to have the neck model so why not. It’s a great setup. I might still get the bridge model at some point. The Pearly Gates would be great in the bridge too. Really any of the PAF style humbuckers would work great.
 
I'd say 2 Classic Stacks, and a 59/Custom Hybrid. Just wire it normally, and it will get hat you want in balance and tone.
 
Best set up I have ever found so far is what's in my 2017 Kiesel DC. Have a Duncan Perpetual Burn bridge and a pair of Carvin Kiesel AP 11's in that guitar.
I'm also a worship player and am getting killer tones with that set up from rock to old school country. For an all Duncan set up a Surfer II neck and middle with the Perpetual Burn would be my choice or a SNS bridge with a pair of the Texas Hots. Of all the Duncan humbuckers i have split with singles the Perpetual Burn is the best by far.
The Kiesel Berillium bridge and a pair of Marks singles is also spectacular.
Check this out my Kiesel DC through my PRS MT 15 with a compressor in front and the PB split with the AP 11 in the middle.
https://youtu.be/cVOT7dUyEFo
Same set up neck and middle AP 11's for clean jazzy smooth tones
https://youtu.be/ovwKkcrbD3w
This clip is the same set up red channel on the MT 15 and running both the PB split with the middle and full humbucking with just the PB.
https://youtu.be/_RZkqIsBJLY
 
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