[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.

[headcrash]

FYI: Finally found an Injector bridge to put it in the neck position of my Axis Sport HSS. Was 80€ used incl. shipping, not exactly cheap, but ok considering they cost around 110…120€ new.

Now have the Inj. neck in middle position. Put both on some 5mm plastic spacers. Now they are veeeery similar in output to the stock bridge humbucker.
I used a four-layer switch (though I‘d only need two..) for the following combinations:
1 - neck
2 - middle
3 - neck + bridge
4 - middle + Bridge
5 - Bridge

There’s now splitting or other fancy stuff involved.
The sound differences for most of the switch pos. is not too far from each other, which can be a good thing, but I might try to take out the spacers, maybe there’s more variety then.

[gregr]

FYI: Finally found an Injector bridge to put it in the neck position of my Axis Sport HSS. Was 80€ used incl. shipping, not exactly cheap, but ok considering they cost around 110…120€ new.

Now have the Inj. neck in middle position. Put both on some 5mm plastic spacers. Now they are veeeery similar in output to the stock bridge humbucker.
I used a four-layer switch (though I‘d only need two..) for the following combinations:
1 - neck
2 - middle
3 - neck + bridge
4 - middle + Bridge
5 - Bridge

There’s now splitting or other fancy stuff involved.
The sound differences for most of the switch pos. is not too far from each other, which can be a good thing, but I might try to take out the spacers, maybe there’s more variety then.

Excellent!

I would love to hear a demo if that is at all possible and you’re willing, of course.


Congratulations!

[darkbluemurder]

Now have the Inj. neck in middle position. Put both on some 5mm plastic spacers. Now they are veeeery similar in output to the stock bridge humbucker.
I used a four-layer switch (though I‘d only need two..) for the following combinations:
1 - neck
2 - middle
3 - neck + bridge
4 - middle + Bridge
5 - Bridge

There’s now splitting or other fancy stuff involved.

Cool simple set up.

I found that with some guitars, middle solo does sound similar to bridge + neck, especially since you have the brightest pickup in the middle position.

No idea how the bridge + middle sounds with neither pickup split. If you like it, great, leave as is. When I had set ups like this I always missed the sparkle on top. Since you have a 4-layer switch you could split both pickups in that position for a very distinct sound compared to the others which is still humcancelling - that's probably what I would do.  EDIT: check the polarity of the coils and make sure that the right coil of the bridge pickup is active in the B+M position.

Cheers Stephan