[gregr]

The Injector Bridge in the neck can be a good sound for sure. I’ve contemplated putting one in the neck for high gain solos, but for me it would just be a 1-trick pony. With weaker pickups there is still the option to turn down the tone control to remove some of the harsher top end. The HB2 is the hottest stacked single coil I’ve used in the neck position. It was in the HSS guitar before the FT1, but it was pitted against a hotter JB2 in the bridge and it just couldn’t keep up. The HB2 is now slated to go in an SSS configuration with a Virtual Solo in the bridge along with the 54P it was previously paired with in the middle position. Like with the Injector Neck you can coax a bit of vintage single coil sparkle out of the HB2, primarily by defeating the dummy coil and secondarily by reducing the loading, combined with the additional step of shelving away some of the body. This final step isn’t necessary for the Injector Neck.

I love the tones Jake E. Lee gets with a pair of SDS-1s and have been contemplating a noiseless option for that. I suspect a Lace Sensor Burgundy or Purple may be a better solution than a stacked design.

[headcrash]

Well, I don’t like/need tone controls and disconnected them in my guitars (if they have one at all)

With that said, I‘ve experimented with load capacitors in the past and somehow it wasn’t really my thing.
Since I don’t really want or need a lower output single coil sound, there’s no need for me to go that route (single coil + load caps).

I was also intrigued by that Jake E. Lee Charvel, but I wouldn’t be able to handle noisy single coils .

[gregr]

Generally speaking, my tone control simply removes presence and does little to nothing in a band context when playing anything heavier than mild distortion.