I'm mainly still concerned about the neck pickup, I want to drown out some of the glass in my distorted strat sound, but don't wanna loose that bass or alot of highs, I was thinking either a tex hot or alnico 2 pro, or maybe even a 5-2 (as far as duncans, I've thought of dimarzio's VirtuAL 2). I love the personality of a strat neck sound, bubbly, quacky, really vocal in a moving your fast way. I was curious about the surfers a long while back but now I'm thinking it might be a little too glassy w/ a5 and all. which of the above would suit my need of more quack, beef, personality and less glass.