I play a deluxe player's strat with fender vintage noiseless p/ups and I am looking to replace the bridge pickup(love the other positions, though). I just need something thicker, and can't stand the brittle, thin sound of the bridge p/up. I play into a Analogman TS9, a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, and a Boss RC-2(for looping) into a Fender Blues Junior. I play (well, try to play) music like Hendrix, Cream, Rush, The Allman Brothers, Phish, The Who, etc. Can anyone recommend some true single-coil bridge p/ups to try? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

What about a humbucker in the bridge?

JbJr is a nice balanced single spaced HB. But it soesn't sound like a Strat pup tho.

the finest tone I have found is the way a Deluxe is wired with the S1 Switch. Position 1 with the S1 pushed in is the rear and middle pup together in series, like humbucker - more tone and higher output.

You can wire it this way without the S1 though

amen to that. In my opinion, this mod is a must. you need to have control over the bridge pickups tone. I actually have mine set at about halfway permanently, as I have the pot floating around under the pickguard, because I replaced the tone control with a killswitch.