neck pickup for a Les Paul

[HTH AMPS]

Ok, so I'd been using an Abraxas neck for ages and recently got a Cold Sweat neck that is also nice.  However, neither does EXACTLY what I want...

* Abraxas - great clean tone, slightly underpowered for soloing
* Cold Sweat - great for soloing, gets too bright with lower gain

I will say that I've had the Mule neck and it wasn't defined enough on the wound strings.

Really I think that a P90 neck is what I'm after - the cheapy P90 in my Tele always does just what I want, so maybe I've just answered my own question  :?

Still, its always good to get other opinions.

Anyone?

[Transcend]

I have a mississippi queen neck pickup paired up with a miracle man.

Its absolutely great for soloing and gives very full and thick cleans with an almost acoustic woody sound to them.

Definitely my favourite pickup for the neck position without a doubt

[Philly Q]

Crawler?  A bit darker and hotter than the Abraxas, I think, but might suffer from the same syndrome you found with the Mule.

Emerald?  Higher DC resistance due to the different coil wire, but still an AIV pickup like the Mule/Abraxas/Crawler.

Black Dog?  I think it's meant to be fairly dark, but perhaps a little tighter due to the AV?

But maybe you're always going to come back to the MQ.

[AndyR]

Yep, I've not mixed and matched, but the MQ neck is rather tasty, I find it a lot more usable than a neck humbucker.

You know you want to :D

[HTH AMPS]

From the clips I've listened to, the Nantucket sounds just the ticket - I'm gonna have to ask Tim very nicely if he can do a humbucker-sized version of this.  Its the A5 in the neck that seems to work for me.

[Telerocker]

I find soapbars georgeous in the neck-position. I had the Yamaha SA503 (the Troy van Leeuwen signature). Great tones. Sold it bec of tuningissues with the Bigsby. The bridge wasn't my piece of cake either.

[kevinr]

There is something special about  AV P90s in the neck spot! they sound the way an neck pup should sound

[darkbluemurder]

I also really like P90s in the neck position - if they only did not hum as badly as they do. But the low string separation is unrivalled by any humbucker I have played so far.

Cheers Stephan

[kevinr]

If you want to stay with HBs may I suggest Riffraff.

[HTH AMPS]

If you want to stay with HBs may I suggest Riffraff.

That probably would be the closest to what I want looking at the specs, but I'm really wanting something that has some single coil twang while still being fat-sounding.  P90 is what I suppose fits that bill.

I'm just waiting for a little bit to see if a MQ neck turns up used to try and save a few quid, otherwise I'll just order one new from Tim.