superstrat (h-s-h) single coil advice plz?

[the picador]

howdy.
so i got bored the other day, and picked up a used super strat body from evilbay, h-s-h configuration.
the research i've done would suggest a calibrtated set of nailbombs would be the go, and possibly an irish tour in the middle just to mix things up a bit.

the problem i have is the middle pup rout is angled, like that of a strat bridge pup.
so how would this affect my selection of a single coil?

[gordiji]

hi picador, don't see why the angle should make a difference in a negative way.I love the IT pups as the only bkp's
i have experience of, but would rarely select postion  3 as a single. As you'll have humbuckers in the other positions your tone will be more heavily influenced by them in positions 2&4 and the pure IT character as i know it will be lost.
there's no reason it can't sound great though in it's own right especially if you choose nice humbuckers.i think there's some higher out put s/c pups(sinner?) which may suit humbuckers in H S H configuration better

[Rocklobster93]

Yer, I think maybe the Irish Tour would get a bit drowned out with humbuckers. In my HSH guitar i'm using a sinner SC(with the standard baseplate) in the middle position and it's really thick compared with other s/c's (in a good way though). It's lower than my bridge pickup (Miracle Man) and it's still more or less the same volume.

[the picador]

cheers for the reply guys.

very helpful insight.

yeah the sinner was what i was leaning towards originally, but read somewhere on here that somebody said they had gone for the irish tour in mid position. sounded funny to me, thought i'd ask anyway.
i do like the sound of the sinner being thick in the mid position rocklobster. :D

so given that the middle pickup rout is angled, when ordering, would i ask for middle or bridge pickup?