What is best to fit with...

[Bluesman]

Hi. I have a American Fender Highway1 Strat.
Pick-ups at middle and neck are Hot Noiseless Strat. from Fender.
I want to replace my single coil P.U. at the bridge and I want the pick-up
to match the others ones. I want an humbucker at the bridge that sound very good on clean and dirty on overdrive and distortion.
Does the Stack P-90 from S.D. would be O.K.?
Will it fit in the single coil hole?
I play Blues(mostly on clean with overdrive pedal)
and hard-rock, but I'm looking for the right pick-up to do so.
I had a Hotrail but I don't find that pick-up good anough on clean.
Can you guide me on this?

 

[theodie]

Re: What is best to fit with...

You will need another pickguard to mount the P-90 or the humbucker in the bridge position. There might be a "slight" chance you will have to route out the body for the humbucker to fit also. I would love to give you pickup suggestions but, I am not to familiar with those singles so, I am not sure how everything would mix.

 

[Robert S.]

Re: What is best to fit with...

I'd suggest a lil59 or a Cool Rails for the bridge slot. A P-90 stack isn't going to fit the pickguard.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: What is best to fit with...

A surprisingly good bridge pickup in a strat (if you don't need huge output) is the Dimarzio Fast Track 1. it blends well with the middle pickup but still fattens up the tone on a strat's bridge position.