Please answer my dumbass pickup questions

[Bacchus]

Greatly. The invader is a high output humbucker, so there might be a large drop in volume when changing from the bridge to the neck.

Is there any way to rectify that difference? Other than setting the neck at 10 and the bridge at say 6 for normal playing?

I have an invader in my Esquire, and I know I like how that pickup sounds, but all my guitars are just big ol' motherhumbuckers. I'm looking for some diversity and some bright jingly jangly sounds.

I think the deArmond style pickups might be worth thinkng about. I think they're mostly humbucker size, and sound different to most other things:

voila

[Doog]

Greatly. The invader is a high output humbucker, so there might be a large drop in volume when changing from the bridge to the neck.

Is there any way to rectify that difference? Other than setting the neck at 10 and the bridge at say 6 for normal playing?

Pickup height can help a bit.

[Mike]

Indeed it can. My neck Jazzmaster pickup (SD Vintage) was kicking the bridge's ass for output (SD 1/4 pounder) until I lowered it way down.

[StevePirates]

Thanks everyone for the input.

I decided to go with the P94 neck position and invader bridge position. I'll lower the bridge pickup so that it's not quite as high output, but I figure, with this set up, I can have a moderate overdrive to give me some gritty jangly sounds in the neck position, and then go into noize with the flick of a selector switch.

What I'm really curious to hear is the middle position.