If you could only have one pickup, would you choose bridge or neck?

Snags

Bridge humbucker every time. Although old age is seeing me use the middle position on twin humbuckers more and more. 

DaevidJ

Bridge... Tone to taste...

Nikc

Neck on a humbucker guitar 

Tele both, but set to middle only 

tralfamadan

Bridge - maximum tone.

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

Neither.

I would have middle position, two coils, one under each pair of strings.

Came here to post this. 

Beaten by @Funkfingers - I feel a bit dirty now.

MagicPigDetective

Neck on my Strat. 
On my vintage v100, I prefer the middle, out of phase position. Which is of no use in answering the op’s question. 

Johnnyseven

Moe_Zambeek said:

Bridge. I have no real need of a neck pickup to be honest. 

/\ What he said!

roberty

Interesting that Morello uses neck only, I started on teles and only used the neck pickup for about 15 years. Then I panicked and bought a Gibson and it's been bridge since then. I still love that Tele neck sound with distortion, maybe should have kept mine

roberty

DannyP said:

I can't believe all you neckies!

Neck pickup is the bedroom pickup.

Absolutely right, I only use the neck pickup to wind down for bed

starwarsnosebleed

Definitely bridge. I think im a bit deaf and need that top end!

Funkfingers

Bridgehouse said:

Beaten by Funkfingers - I feel a bit dirty now.

Public school, eh?

pintspiller

My guitars have been humbuckered when I bought them. Even while tapped the answer is bridge.

When I sold the mini-humbuckers on my 70s SG Special and installed a P90 at the bridge only, I asked myself why I hadn't actually thought of buying guitars with only one pickup.

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

Bridgehouse said:

Beaten by Funkfingers - I feel a bit dirty now.

Public school, eh?

Nah. I was a grammar school wanker. 

Nitefly

DaevidJ said:

Bridge... Tone to taste...

... is the correct answer 

Whitecat

Depends on the pickup. 

P90s, HBs and Strats are superior in the neck... Filtertrons and Teles are all about the bridge... IMO. 

skullfunkerry

Bridge, definitely. EMG81, and if I need a bassier sound I'll use my wah (but in the real world I prefer a 60 in the neck as well)

lasermonkey

Depends on the guitar. On a Jazzmaster or Jaguar, I'd go for the neck pickup. On an SG, I'd go for the bridge. In between for Rickenbacker.

fandango

On my HSS Strat, the bridge humbucker ( a “shawbucker”). I sometimes start with the neck but very quickly ends up as bridge. Every time.

axisus

Neck for me. 

merciful-evans

Neck. I use the neck exclusively when gigging.

Bridge? once in a while at home. TBH I dont need it.