Pickup for mellow sounding, Floyded Basswood strat?

[Pierre]

Well as it sounds... It's a maple/rosewood neck Strat with Floyd and a warm, mellow Basswood body. I need something in the medium to the lower end of the hot pickups, that'd give me a lot of dynamics. I really don't need any compression on this axe.

There's a Duncan Jazz in there right now which is incredible. But I'm looking for something a bit hotter/more aggressive. The Jazz otherwise would be the perfect start.

The pickup is wired straight to output/off/on with tone/volume and it's the only pickup in.

I'd play pretty much everything on it. From Blues to heavy heavy metal. Though she's more of my heavy rock guitar these days.

I tried a Miracle Man in it years and years ago and didn't like it that much.

What else am I overlooking..?

[Jonny]

Did you try the Miracle Man in the basswood?

Basswood is pretty neutral so you can go for pretty much anything. What did you not like about the Miracle Man?

It would be a wild stab in the dark and to go for something like Holydivers, but it's a stab in the dark as I don't have any experience with them. If you want heavy rock, the highest I would go would be Cold Sweats but that's another stab in the dark.

Hope someone else will come and help you more than I can.

[Pierre]

I can't recall much about the MM, it was a LONG time ago. At the time I just went for the wrong pickup, but nowadays any high output ceramic pickups plainly don't work at all for me. And yes it was in the same guitar.

This guitar is not neutral sounding. It's very warm and mellow. So I need to brighten it up a smudge and let the dynamics rip.

[gingataff]

I think a VHII might work. It has lots of character and dynamics and it has enough clarity and brightness to work in your guitar, the low end gets fatter when you add gain too so it's well balanced.

[gwEm]

i would wonder about too much low end in a warm sounding guitar, but like gingataff i'd also try a VH2.

what floyd is fitted? maybe its robbing your highs?

[Dr. Vic]

have you ever considered the crawler ?

This one is versatile and ready to play pretty much anything with a good dose of both warmth and chunk !

[Pierre]

I have a Crawler in a Strat which is brighter and it sounds just fine, so it'd be a bit too dark in this Charvel I think.
The Floyd is a decent one, a Jackson JT6. It's blocked off, I don't use it at all.
The VHII's on my list it seems then! Thanks guys!

[Copperhead]

FWIW
I found the Cold Sweat to be extremely bright, does not work in swamp ash. Probably would be happy in a dark tone wood though.