Single coils to match P-Rails - advice needed!

[passenger]

What I've got is Fender Japan Strat, maple neck and basswood body. I have 2 stock single coils and P-Rails NECK model placed in position "bridge". The reason why I did so, because it's the only p-rails that have less output and more highs, so they balance quite well with single coils and don't "overgroul". I've ended up using only a P-90 mode of a pickup (the best sound of this pickup to me - less output than a humbucker, still punchy and have a single coil flavour). The P-90 itself has less highs than a single coils, no ice-picking, but very quacky)

SO! Here's the question - which single coils will work well with a bridge P-90? Which magnet will fit right? Should I go for an overwound singles like Texas Specials or something else?
I don't want to kill my strat at all with a Quarter Pounds, it seems to me that they are quite ballsy, right?

I like John's Frusciante's tone, he mostly plays on a neck pickup (so there will be no problem with a P-90 anyway, it still can get some funky:1: ).
I also dig "Earthless" very much - you can find songs like "Flower Travelin' Man", "Lost in a Cold Sun" and "Sonic Prayer" on youtube, Isaiah plays strat a lot)

Please, don't suggest custom shop pickups like Bare Knuckels, I just want to stay with the pickup I can get pretty fast and easy like Fenders, Seymours or DiMarzios, because I'm from Russia :1: Excuse my English if something's wrong

 

[jeremy]

Re: Single coils to match P-Rails - advice needed!

john frusciante uses duncan ssl1's in at least some of his strats and they sound great. i dont know how they will match up with a prail in the bridge though, might be fine, but ive never been able to compare them like that

 

[passenger]

Re: Single coils to match P-Rails - advice needed!

john frusciante uses duncan ssl1's in at least some of his strats and they sound great. i dont know how they will match up with a prail in the bridge though, might be fine, but ive never been able to compare them like that

I've read some interview where he said he found out that his old strat had Antiquities in it. I don't know which one, thou, he didn't mention. The only ones that Seymour sell now are Antiquities Texas Hot and they seem to DC as the Texas Specials.
Even if I'm mistaken, how do you think that a hooter singles would make a better pair with P-90?

That what Seymours description tell us:
description
"yield a bright and punchy tone", "the SSL-1 has a more focused "bell" tone with a light bass response".
I'm not sure they will match, seem to differ much from a P-90

Maybe a hotter versions is a solution?

 

[PRSfan nym 1985]

Re: Single coils to match P-Rails - advice needed!

lindy fralin makes steel poled strat style single coils if anything is going to be a good match to a p90 I'd vote for that pickup. I'm not a fan of the quarter pound pickups a set came in the tele I play now (awful sounding imho just not the right p'up for this guy).

 

[chris_tw21]

Re: Single coils to match P-Rails - advice needed!

Dean scvh pickups,these would work great.

 

[passenger]

Re: Single coils to match P-Rails - advice needed!

Thanks for lindy and dead suggestions!

anyone tried SSL-5? Any thoughts?)