New guitar, new pickups?

[Yellowjacket]

Rebel Yell is a bright, clear neck pickup with a wide pick attack. 

The Juggernaut Neck pickup is one where I wonder how it will respond in the guitar.  The demos you've heard are quite similar to what I get with my RG7421.  My Redline III isn't as bright and the Juggernaut Neck isn't so bright and articulate in it.  It's more warm.

I have a VHII neck in my Solid Mahogany body / Mahogany bolt on neck / rosewood board short scale guitar.  In that guitar, the VHII is nice and articulate.  It's warm clean, but the top end bites more and more as the gain comes up. 

I honestly LOVE the juggerset, especially for the myriad of AMAZING clean options.  Ibanez style wiring monumentally ROCKS with these pickups.  I'm actually going to try the Bridge in Parallel soon as well for even more options.

The VHII would be less powerful / less output than a juggerbridge but it could be a fantastic option nonetheless. 

[Lucas]

When it comes to neck pickup Ztevie, you might also look at Abraxas neck too. Apparently it`s a bit brighter too with good pick attack. It`s based on Mule neck, so you can expect beautiful cleans for sure!

[ztevie]

I will order a Jugg set today.
I found a video where a guy makes a review where he talks about exactly the issues I have with neck pups. I think he only plays on the bridge here, but in the second half of the video he talks about the neck pup and how he likes to use the neck for leads but it always tend to be muddy and flubby. But the Jugg neck is so clear that this is not an issue with the Jugg. It sounds exactly as my problems. I think I'm not necessarily looking for avery bright pickup, but clarity AND cream.
He also has a mahogany bodied guitar worth maple neck, AND had the same fear as me for the Juggs being too dark for that guitar before he decided to buy them.
 So I'll try a set out and can return it if it's still no good. Thanks for all of your assistance in helping me choose!
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/gKmH1pWrUI4

[Yellowjacket]

Nice!  Let me know what you think.

[ztevie]

Nice!  Let me know what you think.

Sure!

[ztevie]

Here's a video where he plays lead on bridge and neck, without any other instruments involved:
https://youtu.be/NZLRFmjvv7I

[ztevie]

So, finally soldered them in.
Took 3 weeks to get them and it was a bit of a pain to solder. The guitar has a Schaller M 5-way switch. It has no holes, just contact surfaces, 24 of them.  So it's very tight and the Luthier did a very clean wiring job with all cables being extremely short. I have a rather complicated switching with plenty of small connections between the different contacts, so it was difficult.
Anyway, now they're in and the first impression is that they're great! I was afraid the neck would be too bassy and muddy but it's not. It has plenty of bass but it's tight and the notes come out very clear and defined. Much better than the Paf Pro that was there before. It was really muddy when playing faster runs on the wound strings. So far so good! I guess the fact I use a 1 Mb volume pot and no tone helps keeping the bass in place?
I'll give them a couple of weeks and then try to do a small review, maybe I'll make a video aswell...