I finally got around to removing the last vestiges of the crappy Jackson electronics in my Soloist Jr., replacing the neck pickup with a Duncan Hot Rails neck model that I happened to have laying around in my parts bin. I'd bought it brand new years ago for a project I can't even remember, so it was nice not to have to buy another pickup at the moment.
This sounds very nice and shreddy matched with the Wolfetone Timbre Wolf in the bridge. the Hot Rails neck is not over the top high output like the bridge version; it reminds me of a somewhat more compressed version of the JB Jr. Quite a bit of low end oomph for a SC-sized HB, and it will do high-gain lead tones very well.
I've got a set of 11-52s on Soloist Jr. tuned down to C Standard for the "melodic doom shred" album I'm working on, and both pickups give all kinds of nice gooey gain at that tuning.
This sounds very nice and shreddy matched with the Wolfetone Timbre Wolf in the bridge. the Hot Rails neck is not over the top high output like the bridge version; it reminds me of a somewhat more compressed version of the JB Jr. Quite a bit of low end oomph for a SC-sized HB, and it will do high-gain lead tones very well.
I've got a set of 11-52s on Soloist Jr. tuned down to C Standard for the "melodic doom shred" album I'm working on, and both pickups give all kinds of nice gooey gain at that tuning.