mcconnachiea said: Get something similar which is recommended for a basswood body 😉
or you could have an original thought for once.
long story short: using a bridge pickup instead of a neck pickup in the neck position will result in a louder sound with less treble, and possibly more mids. to know why, continue reading...
strat pickup sets which are meant to be balanced in volume between the five positions will have the neck pickup the weakest, and the bridge pup the strongest. because the string is swinging more quickly, and over a longer distance towards the middle of the neck, pickups closer to that position will naturally produce more sound. to counter this, the bridge is wound hotter, and the neck weaker.
in addition to this, the string's vibration is very complex, there are many fluctuations in the vibration across the strings length, meaning that more notes than just the note being played come out. when a harmonic is played, all vibrations other than that of the harmonic are deadened, or at least suppressed. the 'fundamental' is the lowest note. this is also the loudest, and is in full swing at the 12th fret. however, harmonics usually peak at different places (and have multiple peaks). moving away from the 12th fret, a pickup picks up less fundamental, and more of certain harmonics. this causes the different timbre (character) of pickup placements. when a pickup is wound hotter, its resonant frequency (the frequency at which it is loudest) descends, so that certain harmonics, or the fundamental, are emphasized. so, a hotter bridge pickup relative to the neck results in a more balanced sound.
