Best bridge pup for 1995 fender strat

pdpmail

I have a 1995 fender strat and want a humbucker bridge pickup to fatten the tone out. I'm looking at a Seymour Duncan hot rail. But some folks seem to prefer a full size humbucker. I guess as the tone is presumable better. I'm not into screaming death thrash metal, but I want to fatten out the tone and get a but more signal strength. I do have a les Paul which cuts through the mix and any loud band with ease. However the strat neck is much more to my liking, (surprisingly). So whilst I love the power of my Paul, I love the strat for playability. My gut feel is to beef up the bridge. Any ideas, or experiences gratefully acknowledged in advance :-)

ChrisCox1994

have you thought of an over wound fat single coil? something with a p90 flavour. 

As long as the tone pot is wired to the bridge you can tame the highs and the volume difference is greatly improved over a HSS setup. 

My two strats are wired HSS and SSS but the 2nd one has a fat single, still sounds stratty but its beefy and fat.

pdpmail

Hmm that's an idea thanks

normula1

I recently stuck a Bare Knuckle Mule I had hanging around into mine as I wanted something a less shouty than the pickup I had in there. It worked pretty well and position 2 is reasonable even without a split.

stickyfiddle

I highly recommend fat single coils. Something more Tele-flavoured can work a treat. Rio Grande's Halfbreed and Muy Grande slightly have bigger polepieces rather than more wire to achieve that, and are awesome.  Oil City does something similar too iirc

WezV

Something with a baseplate

pdpmail

Thanks guys. There's one other thing. This base plate business? Any love for that ?

normula1

Last year I fitted one to an old Tokai pickup I have in one of my partscasters. It definitely changed the tone and loses some of the spikyness, 

I'm not convinced I prefer it but can't be ar*ed at the moment to open up the guitar and remove it to do an AB test ..