Strat HB Bridge

Herby

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I need advice for matching a humbucker with SC strat pickups. Looking for a bridge HB pickup with the right tonal qualities.
I have a Strat and I want to rout the bridge position for a HB. My goal is not balance but tone. I don't want to lose the (when in SC mode) Strat (bridge/middle quack) tone but I do want the humbucker tone when running alone in HB mode. What are my best options?
I did a quick search but didn't find anything. If anyone has a link to a post already made that would be great also. Thanks in advance.
 
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A lot of switches offer options for wiring HSS so that in position 4 you have the middle single coil and one coil of the humbucker together, getting you that kind of tone. Maybe it would sound even more true if pos 4 combined the middle single coil with the humbuckers coil on the bridge side (instead of the neck side).
Also, a humbucker which already sounds great and straty when split would help nudge you where you want to go.

What type of switch do you have? You may need to replace it, depending...
 
So you want a humbucker to match tonally your strat single coils in the neck and middle? It would be helpful maybe to know which single coils you have in your strat now.

When you say your goal is not balance, do you mean it doesn't matter if the humbucker is a bit or a lot hotter in output than the single coils?
 
The Hybrid sounds great split (actually anything in the Custom family does), and the Hybrid isn't tons louder than a single coil. What kind of EQ do you want? How much power?
 
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