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Do you mean different sounds, coil splits taps? A 3 in 1 pickup like the seymour duncan p-rails?
A guitar is not versatile really, its the player that is versatile.
For me the most versatility is from pickups that complement each other rather than being too different in voicing. I don’t like the Jazz/JB combination at all, I think it brings out the worst in both pickups. The JB is a bit too hot and midrangy, although if you go too much lower it won’t do the hard rock sounds as well - and the Jazz is too soft and thin-sounding, which exaggerates the difference, so you can’t set the amp up ideally for both of them. In fact I would avoid Alnico II for the neck pickup at all unless both are - it makes an A5 or ceramic bridge sound too aggressive by comparison.
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Gear Hot Slag in the bridge and a Rolling Mill in the neck and it sounded fantastic.
Although at the moment I have a Vintage (brand not age!) Les Paul with Tonerider pickups in it ( I think it’s a Rocksong in the bridge and an Alinco 2 Classic in the neck) and it also sounds bloody lovely! The neck pickup in particular has real clarity.
I had a set of Tonerider Generators in an Ibane RG450 years ago - they were both great, but I remember telling anyone who was vaguely interested that the neck pickup gave me "the sweetest lead tone I'd ever heard". I know that I'm prone to hyperbole for things like that, but it was very very nice indeed...
If you want to stick with a normal humbucker I find that a vintage output pickup can be gained up, EQ'd and compressed to sound like a high output pickup but not vice versa.
And I think my favourite pickup - the Bare Knuckle Mule has a lot of versatility from being vintage output and also has a balanced frequency response, partly from using alnico iv, so you can sculpt the tone without having to fight a strong inherent character.
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The 59N/Custom 5 bridge is probably a good suggestion too, considering this in my SG for a general purpose rock and metal guitar. I have found the C5 a bit scooped but if I match it with a 59 it'll probably balance better than my current pickups and I can just EQ in more midrange at the amp.
I've had A4 PAFs (8.4k bridge, 6.9k neck) from Bare Knuckle and Mojo and, unsurprisingly given the specs were the same, they sounded well nigh identical. The Bare Knuckle bridge was a hair fatter and the Mojo neck a hint smoother, but we are talking minute differences.