Pickup choice and options

[rjbee]

I presently have, in my Ibanez RX 350 a HSH setup with Mule in the neck, Riff Raff in the bridge and a Seymour Duncan Classic stack plus in the middle.  I want to change the middle to an Irish Tour because the Classic stack doesn't seem to be a good match with the other 2 pickups.  I use a 5 way switch with a push pull which is wired to add the neck  pickup to whatever position the switch is in, I am not coil splitting the humbuckers.  Which options would be suggested.  Tim suggested the RWRP option but since I'm not splitting the humbuckers should I go with the stock option or does it even matter.

[darkbluemurder]

If you don't split it does not matter. However, if you later decide you want to split, it could.

Cheers Stephan

[Kiichi]

If you don't split it does not matter. However, if you later decide you want to split, it could.

Cheers Stephan

+1

Keep in mind you could get interresting splits sounds out of that though. I donīt like the usual "both on"  positions 2 and 4 as they are just not interresting and boring to me, so I went ahead and split them (gotta change the wiring on my les paul style already xD).

In my Ibanez S I have Mule neck, IT middle and RY bridge (pretty similar to your setup) and I made positions 2 and 4 to be a combination of middle and the outer coil (the slug coil here) of the bridge / neck PU.
While the top end does not work well with high gain, for low gain or clean they bring very interresting sounds, reminicent of tele sounds.
To me this is much more usable and different from the normal parallel aproach.

For this I used a RWRP middle, but after watching the comparison video put up a while ago I would have gone with a stock.