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I'd definitely recommend one. I got mine used from eBay for £30 about 10 years ago, and it's been in that guitar ever since!
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The more that these pickups make a high output Rock sound, the less that they succeed at the low output sparkly sounds.
My favourite compromise pickup of this type is the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Li’l Pearly Gates. Of the production line range, check out the Red Devil model.
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Not remotely "high output rock sound".
Of course it doesn't sound like a good single coil. It sounds like itself, but why is that automatically considered a bad thing?
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I have a Joe Barden Tele bridge pickup (the Danny Gatton model) and a Joe Barden Strat bridge pickup (common or garden variety) and I can confirm that they are astonishing quiet.
...although, that's mainly because they're both still in their boxes, waiting to be fitted into appropriate guitars...
If you wire with a push pull pot you can wire split coil or parallel.
The only traditional Stratocaster bridge single pickups I've liked aren't exactly traditional. Duncan SSL 5 or 6 or a Dimarzio Red Velvet and that's about it.
Dimarzio Chopper is a great rail pickup for strat bridge. Fast track 1 was too weedy, Fast Track 2 too overblown. Pro Track was just ok a little bit different to a chopper and the mids are slightly different.
A full size humbucker effectively samples the string at points further apart than a single double rail coil and features more lows because of the 2nd coil is closer to the neck. The great thing about full size is the availability of after market full size humbuckers and the ways we can tune them to different guitars with magnet swaps.
The huge part of the strat sound is based on the slant of the bridge pickup and you lose that when you install full size buckers. Hendrix played a righty flipped over so the coil positions were reversed bass strings were brighter high strings were smoother.
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Loads more character than the hot rails it replaced.
Cheers, and noted, thanks.
I confess I did once have a strat Lil '59 in the neck position of a guitar, and it wasn't terrible, but I found it a bit brittle and cold-sounding somehow. I preferred a Lace Blue pickup that I tried after that, and I do have a strat with a Lace Red-Silver-Blue combination, which is good. But I'm looking more towards a rails pickup for the bridge position at the moment, for a new partscaster build which is in the offing.
I guess you're right about that - it's probably a bit weird and of me, but I just don't like the look of strats with a full size humbucker in the bridge - I like to see that slanting bridge pickup. Also I have a really lovely surf green strat body to use, and it's not routed to take a humbucker. So maybe not the strongest of reasons, but I'm thinking it is the sc size rails pickup for me.