Cold Sweat for the Neck?

[Liquid]

That clip sounded pretty nice, thaks for the link

I still haven't gotten anything yet, So I'm ressurecting this thread with the hope of finding something. My main concern is the CS's cleans. I Like my cleans pretty bassey with a lot of mids too but most Importantly I like them Clean! Breakup sounds great a lot of the time, and sometimes I go for that (Depending on what I'm playing) but for the most part I want my cleans clean And I'm wonderin would the CS push them to break up much earlier?

[Liquid]

Can anyone help me out with this? I'm really anxious to get another BK after realising the huge improvement my MM in the Bridge made. I'm 90% sure the CS is what I want for the neck, I'd really love something that can give great clean cleans and a distortion something like this (Particularly the sound between about 1:20 and 1:40) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NfZBvRvkIg

I Love the distinctive sound of a neck pickup for leads, especially one that's being driven hard. I want a neck pickup that can handle lots of distortion without sounding like a bridge pickup and instead retaining that neck 'mellowness'

[JoshuaLogan]

how nice the cleans are is going to depend on how much headroom your amp has heh. and also, I suggest getting push-pull pots for your LP and wiring it up so you can split the coils to mimic a single coil sound. the cleans will be much nicer with it split. and if you did this, you could even get a higher output pickup, because the coldsweat split would only be around 4k which is very low output. I think most vintage single coils are around 8k... judging from that, maybe a miracle man neck would be a better match packing more punch in the neck and when split still doing nice cleans.

[Liquid]

Unfortunately, my amp doesn't have a great amount of headroom. It's not bad, but not exactly a twin reverb either.

I'd also rather try and avoid going for splitting or coil tapping. I'm not really experienced enough to try that myself and I doubt my closest shop would be able to do it for me. They charge €50 to install a new pickup :/

[Sifu Ben]

It's not really any harder than installing a pickup, you just need to fit a new pot and wire it slightly differently.

[Liquid]

I still wouldn't feel comfortable trying it myself, I've never installed a pickup before and haven't done much soldering either. And if this shop charges €50 to just install a pickup I'd hate to know how much they'd want to do a coil split...