[greenlion]

I'm loving the Dimarzio Breed neck and bridge in an older Ibanez RG. I have the original Ibanez single coil middle in there now and I usually just avoid it. I would like to find a single coil that is somewhere between the Breed neck and bridge to sort of "bridge the gap" between them. Mostly for old-school shred stuff, but versatile is good.

[greenlion]

So no one cares about middle pickups do they? They are the Jan Brady of the pickup world..

[tonejam]

Used to be that way for me with the middle PUP.
Then I followed some advice and installed a Dimarzio HS-2 (you can get one cheap 2nd hand, nobody loves them anymore). Wire it with just the top coil working, and you've got one of the best strat sounds around. Unlike a side-by-side humbucker, when you split a stacked PUP, it increases in output. Mine reads 8.2, plenty hot in that position.