single coil help

[junior]

I have a warmoth body & neck- mohagony body, flame maple top, strat shape, maple neck, rosewood board. It has spaces for a hum single single,. Right now all it has is an EVH in the bridge, and only a 250k volume, no tone. I got tired of trying to match pups, so I went with the one pup and vol. BTW, the 250k pot really helped the tone of this pick-up, and it totally rocks. Now I think I might try to get a neck pup. I want to get your regular strat neck tones, though I don't know if that will be possible with this body. I have a strat at home with a hotrails bridge, cool rails neck, and a quarter pounder mid (RWP), so I can pilpher those, or the store I work at has a vintage, and an alnico pro II. I don't care about hum cancling, but I do want to know what to do about keeping the volume between the two pups somewhat consistant,or at least not a dramatic difference. Any ideas? Y'all are always such a great help. Thanks.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: single coil help

I'd go for the SSL-1 in the neck and an APS-1 in the mid. They will balance well with the EVH, you'll just have to tweak the heights a bit to get the balance you want.

 

[jeremy]

Re: single coil help

id try a vintage, itll be a little brighter than the aps

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: single coil help

IMO, vintage output (6K to 6.6K) alnico 5 Strat single coils like the SSL-1 are where it's at in terms of classic Strat tone. Any hotter and it doesn't sound like a classic Strat to me. However, most 8K or hotter bridge humbuckers will slightly overpower most 6K to 6.6K Strat neck and middle single coils. What's the solution? I don't know! IMO, the only real solution is to use a little hotter Strat pickup with more output or a bridge humbucker wound to around 7K or 7.5K...basically a neck humbucker used as a bridge pickup. Lew

 

[junior]

Re: single coil help

Thanks guys- I just threw in the Aps-1 in the neck- I don't really want bright. And I think I'll try that for a while. Thanks for the help y'all.

 

[junior]

Re: single coil help

The more I play it, I think I might try the vintage- it is a dark sound. Its just that the mohagony/ maple top is pretty bright allready, and I'm worried that the vintage might be too bright.