Pickup recommendations for American Deluxe HSH Strat

[Snowdogyyz]

Just bought this guitar and the PO installed a distortion trembucker bridge that I love. High output and fairly bright but the tone control works well with it. So I want to keep it in the bridge. Right now it has a quarter pounder middle and a 59 neck bucker. Those two just seem way too dark with distortion applied. Clean they are ok.
So, what higher output pickups would you recommend for the middle single coil and the humbucker neck positions? I play mainly classic and hard rock. Preferably something that mixes well with the distortion trembucker soundwise and volume wise. Thanks!

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Re: Pickup recommendations for American Deluxe HSH Strat

Distortion Neck mixes well with the Distortion trembucker.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Pickup recommendations for American Deluxe HSH Strat

Welcome to the forum!

Yeah, consider the Distortion neck, the Jazz or Full Shred. All 3 are much brighter than your neck pickup now. As far as the middle...do you want it to get a more vintage single coil, or do you want it to keep up output-wise with the other pickups?

 

[Snowdogyyz]

Re: Pickup recommendations for American Deluxe HSH Strat

Thanks for the replies and welcome! I’m going with the distortion in the neck and a ssl-6 rw/rp in the middle. I had asked customer service. Also recommended the jazz neck. We’ll see how I like this combo and if not, maybe I’ll check out the jazz neck.