Question for you tone hounds out there :
Which single coil pick up set would give the closest sound to a stock '62 vintage strat ?
I.e. rather than getting Irish tours for a Gallagher, SRV, Hendrix vintage hot type sound or slow hand to get a clapton sound or Sultans for a knopfler esk sound etc. which pickup would give the closest standard strat sound ? Surely all these players got amazing tones from standard pups, apart from maybe they got them rewound (slightly differently) when they wore out - i.e. like SRV and Gallagher did through their playing careers.
From everything I've read about the various single coil sets would the Apaches be the closest to a standard set of vintage pickups ?
What I want is a blank canvas to find my own sound with rather than starting with a pickup set that is slightly biased to a certain style/player. I can then shape my own tone with choice of amplifier, tone settings, strings, pedals etc.
Or to put it another way - which set would be like picking up a standard strat in a shop in 1962/64 ? obviously allowing for variances in hand wound pups at the time !
