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whats the difference, is a full stack louder or better sound quality or both or what?

ok well i am nervous as heck to put this here.
i started playing guitar for about a year or so then quit for over 5 years, back in nov 04 i started again.

i want to put a new pickup in the bridge of my les paul classic b/c the 500T is to too hot for me..it has no clarity to it...

A buddy of mine is looking to learn a bit more about the gear side of things, and will be purchasing his first electric after years of playing acoustic exclusively. He plays and records neo-folk and alt-country almost exclusively and I've been helping to talk him through some of his options, but I'd like to be able to point his towards a fairly succint and clear breakdown of they types of pickups out there (in really broad strokes...Humbuckers vs. Strat/Tele single coils vs. P90s...etc.). Does anyone know of an online primer that sets forth these issues in such a fashion. I know enough to answer his questions and I've given him a rough idea of what's what, but a centralized knowledge base would be useful for him, I think.

A successful trade kinda makes me wanna find ANYTHING around the house to trade or sell...

I`m looking for a single coil pickup for the neck position of a Strat , alder body, maple neck and single 500k volume control. The bridge pickup is a Blues Trembucker so I`m looking for something that would match up well with it but I don`t usually play with the toggle in the middle position. Thanks!!!!

My Squire strat is in need of some upgrades in light of the absolute excellent-ness of my Fender strat () and I was thinking of this combination... If I had a DiMarzio bridge humbucker, say PAF Pro, would it match with a Duncan neck pickup, say the Hotrails?

i'm not really sure why i'm asking about this, because i'm probably just going to go for it, but...

I'm planning on replacing the stock pickups in my Schecter 006. I'm pretty much set on the Jazz in the neck, but I'm split between the JB and the Custom in the bridge.

I play rhythm in a hard rock band, i.e. 95% of the time I'm sawing off on power chords (which is fine with me). Up until now I've been using Ernie Ball Super Slinkys on my '93 Peavey Predator but I feel like changing to something heavier.
Any suggestions?