Anyone tried bridge single coils in the neck/middle?

[oilpit]

I've been thinking about HSS sets and the ever present issue of which pot value to use to make both the bucker and the single coils happy.  I would think if one used 500k pots (as Tim recommends) then using a bridge model Irish Tour or Slowhand would have enough beef and punch to sound warm and round even with 500k pots.  Experimenting with hotter single coils in the neck has become common practice at the Duncan/Dimarzio forum, however you don't hear much about it here, is there a reason for that?

I was thinking specifically of a bridge Slowhand with a basesplate in the neck, a neck Slowhand in the middle and a Crawler in the bridge.  It would be wired up with 500k pots with a shared tone for the SCs and one for the bucker.

[kevinr]

I would say that should work out fine! I'm about to do the same thing myself.

[Telerocker]

Tim recommended the 550K cts-pot for my HSS-set (VHII/Mother's Milks).

[darkbluemurder]

Sorry for bumping this up but I am interested in this question myself, and it is the only topic that has been turned up by the search function.

Has anybody tried this in the meanwhile?

Thanks, Stephan

[darkbluemurder]

Well, now I did - see here (Reply #6): https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29342.0

The bridge Slowhand in the middle is still to come.

Cheers Stephan

[Tomcaster]

Now the funny thing about old Strats is that the neck pickup used to be more powerful that the bridge one. Only in time players discovered that swapping them would give a glassier neck sound. Leo Fender meant the neck PU to be rather jazzy and very warm.