Tech me on neck pickups please

[JMP2203]

i havent used neck pickups(humbucker) in years!, honestly i found them to bassy and muddy and i preffer single coil tone in the neck since they are brighter and clearer, but they are noisy as you know.

based on that, which neck do you recomend for me? what about using them in parallel?

i use warpig and nailbomb, both ceramic bridge.

i was looking to buy a painkiller set, i know the neck painkiller is the only ceramic neck from bkp so i guess is the best for fast lead stuff? but not sure abouth the cleans.

[Antag]

AFAIK, my neck clean shootout is one of the only PK neck clips on here.  It's not my favourite for cleans, but perfectly useable.

I'm not sure about "best" for neck lead work - the Miracle Man neck is very powerful & clear too (but alnico5 with much more low end & the "smoothness" you expect from a neck pickup)

A neck pickup wired in parallel does give you a sound that sounds a bit like a single coil, except hum-cancelling.  I have a Nailbomb neck with series/split/parallel switch & to my ears the parallel is slightly less powerful & bright than the split sound (yes, that sounds counter-intuitive, 2 coils having less power than 1 but that's what I'm hearing).  If your guitar already has a mini switch or you don't mind getting surgery on it to install one, then a DPDT on/on/on mini switch for the neck pickup is the way to go IMHO :)

Hope this helps...