This guy plays along very good with as in my case the crunch lab, and aslo alone in neck position. I like this a lot both with clean sounds and distorted. I think this might be very good for jazz and blues as well as for myself that plays a wide variety of covers. I've got this pickup on a Les Paul model and added the possibility to split it for single coil like sound. It has a very soft and warm sound, not too much bass, and very balanced mids and highs. In slit mode the highs become more salient.