Bridge pickup in neck position?

Fatfingers

I have a Fender Japan '62 Reissue Tele that I want to put a mini humbucker in the neck position of. I also have a Seymour Duncan mini humbucker (Les Paul Deluxe style), but it's a bridge position version.

Will it sound shit in the neck position, and be way too loud?

meltedbuzzbox

You might have some balancing issue in terms of volume but it shouldn't be that huge. 

Personally I would get a set wound of whatever pickups you are after and get them matched. 

You can probably sell the Seymour for £40 which will help you on the way

ICBM

The problem is likely to be that it will sound too muddy, as well as too loud - bridge pickups are usually wound hotter and more middy than neck ones.

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

The problem is likely to be that it will sound too muddy, as well as too loud - bridge pickups are usually wound hotter and more middy than neck ones.

@ICBM do you know if Gibson did anything different for their mid position HBs in guitars where they had 3 HBs? Always wondered what they did for them...

ICBM

Bridgehouse said:

@ICBM do you know if Gibson did anything different for their mid position HBs in guitars where they had 3 HBs? Always wondered what they did for them…

No, not normally. In the old days they never had calibrated pickups anyway, they were all the same. As far as I know the Historics are the same too. If there's any difference it will be that the bridge is slightly hotter and the neck and middle are the same - like Strat pickup sets.

victorludorum

Oil City Hardman?

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

Bridgehouse said:

@ICBM do you know if Gibson did anything different for their mid position HBs in guitars where they had 3 HBs? Always wondered what they did for them…

No, not normally. In the old days they never had calibrated pickups anyway, they were all the same. As far as I know the Historics are the same too. If there's any difference it will be that the bridge is slightly hotter and the neck and middle are the same - like Strat pickup sets.

Thanks - always wondered about that. 

normula1

As it happens I did this in Strat over the weekend. The Kinman traditional 3's  AVN56es sounded a bit too brittle, so I swapped the bridge AVN-62 into the neck and dropped a Woodstock AVN69b bridge I had lying around into the bridge position.

Sounds great now.