Tell me about the Twang Banger

[Ascension]

Still trying to sort out the new 95 Silverado pickups. Now I'm running a pair of the Scooped Strats in the neck and middle with the Stock SSL 5 in the bridge. The SSL 5 is a little too harsh by itself, and also doesn't have as much quack as I would like with the middle. I have the other 94 Silverado with the Surfer 2 set and EJ volume and tone set up for the more vintage Strat tone. The SSL 5 is ok, but I do a little country style stuff from time to time and also like a Tele bridge tone with mid-gain overdrive.
I'm looking hard at dropping a Twang Banger in this one with the scooped strat neck and middle.
How does the Twang Banger sound in pos 2 running with a Strat single coil? Does it have the quack and chime to sound like a real strat should?

 

[Mincer]

I'd say it has plenty of quack in position 2. Being an A2-based pickup, it doesn't have the edge that something like an SSL-2 would, and the mids are a little lower frequency than the mids in the Scooped Strat pickups.

 

[Ascension]

I'd say it has plenty of quack in position 2. Being an A2-based pickup, it doesn't have the edge that something like an SSL-2 would, and the mids are a little lower frequency than the mids in the Scooped Strat pickups.

Hmm that sounds like it may just work for what I am looking for. The lower mids in particular. The SSL 5 get too thin and harsh if you pull it back from the strings and is hotter than I want if get it close so calls for a closer look. To my ear the slightly darker Scooped Strat neck sounds similar to a tele neck pickup with the metal cover so--.
Anybody else?

 

[beaubrummels]

I've one but haven't installed it yet, so can't say.

Don't The Hellcasters use them? (Or what was that band name?). If you can find videos/recordings of them, you might be able to hear it.

 

[jeremy]

i really like the twangbanger. its hotter than vintage and has a nice tone with more mids.

 

[Butch Snyder]

I've one but haven't installed it yet, so can't say.

Don't The Hellcasters use them? (Or what was that band name?). If you can find videos/recordings of them, you might be able to hear it.

Back when Jerry Donahue first joined the Hellecasters, Fender made him a signature Stratocaster. The bridge pickup had a metal plate on the bottom; plus a kind of metal plate underneath the pickguard simulating the metal of a Telecaster bridge assembly. The bridge pickup with the metal plate is the same concept as the Twang Banger. Also, the EBMM Albert Lee model has a bridge pickup, an Alnico 2 Pro with a metal strip underneath.

Fender Jerry Donahue Stratocaster

 

[Mincer]

Back when Jerry Donahue first joined the Hellecasters, Fender made him a signature Stratocaster. The bridge pickup had a metal plate on the bottom; plus a kind of metal plate underneath the pickguard simulating the metal of a Telecaster bridge assembly. The bridge pickup with the metal plate is the same concept as the Twang Banger. Also, the EBMM Albert Lee model has a bridge pickup, an Alinoc 2 Pro with a metal strip underneath.

Fender Jerry Donahue Stratocaster

That's cool- I didn't know any of that.