Pickups and Output question

[MetallicaRHCP]

Hi all, I'm looking in to buying some DiMarzio pickups for my new Fender American Strat. I want to buy a new bridge pickup that's better for metal solos (like metallica), and for power chords as well but I still want to keep my original fender neck pickup for some blues and soft rock. I am having a tough time with that since DiMarzio has such a vast selection of pickups, any sugestions? I also have a couple of other questions, what is the middle pickup used for, and can anyone give me a more in dept description of what output means?

[lamf]

Maybe you should think about a different guitar? alternately a humbucker that fits in the space of a single coil.Duncan makes several Im not terribly familiar with DiMarzio anymore since I havent used them since the seventies when they were the only game in town

[scottomy]

I have a Lace Sensor Hot Gold for bridge (13.2K ohms - high output for a single coil) for sale if your interested. You can email me at scottomy at yahoo dot com if you are interested. This one is white.

You can check out the specs here:

http://www.lacemusic.com/electric_pickups/hot_gold/hot_gold_specs.php

Scott

[Nickelo]

I'm not that familiar with strats, but does it have a bridge humbucker?

You should look into a YJM or (I believe) an HS-1. The EJ sounds great too. And I think they now make "special" single coils now, such as the Tone Zone single. I currently use a Tone Zone in my bridge and dig the tone, but it is a humbucker. I don't know a ton about single coils as I'm more of a humbucker kind of guy, but that's what I can suggest!

Cheers!