I dropped a set of these in my "FrankenSquier" for an immediate tonal upgrade.

They are noiseless, as advertised, but I find that they are not that "hot". In fact, my American Standard's pickups have more edge.

Don't get me wrong, these pickups have a great full sound and nice tone. Just don't expect too much. They are powerful and rich sounding, but more "warm" sounding than "hot". Great blues sound.

I installed these on my American Standard Strat and am very impressed with the upgrade in sound quality and the reduction in noise.I am a huge Jeff Beck fan and I have to thank the master for designing these pickups. Buy these if you want to greatly improve the sound of your stock Strat.

I wanted a pickup that could give me a great sound and tonal variations, and that was tenfold better than the pickups in my Squier that I've customized. When I got my guitar back from installation I was AMAZED! No hum, and no buzz! This pickup set is DEFINITELY what you want if you want the best!

As you can see, these pickups are getting great reviews, but there are a few things you should know ahead of time. First, the pickup covers are NOT white. They are kind of a cream/tellowish color. The Strat I installed them on has a parchment pickguard, and these are more beige than the parchment is. If color matching is an issue, just know these aren't white. I guess they were going for an aged look.

Now, I thought I'd just take the plastic pickup covers from my stock American Series pickups and put them on the Noiseless. Nope. Only the bridge pickup cover will fit. The neck & middle pickup poles are spaced differently than standard Fender pickups. So, you have to keep the beige covers with the "Noiseless" logo, which I also don't care for.

There's more - these pickups are almost 1/4" deeper than the stock Fender pickups. On my 2004 Strat, the pickup routes were deep enough, thankfully. However, I have read of others who've needed to route their pickup cavities in order to get these to fit. So be aware of that.

OK, those are the "gotchas" to know about.

Tonewise, these are very articulate. I haven't played them long enough to say much more, but I expect they will grow on me. The have a lot more going for them that the stock pickups.

Incidentally, neck & middle pickup are identical, and the bridge is different from those two.

The other day I got these installed in my MIM strat. They sound great my only complaint is that I still get some of that 60 cycle hum in the background, it has been greatly reduced but it is still there. But other than that I can get some great tones out of these babies. For blues I personally prefer the neck and middle and when paired with my tubescreamer and line 6 spider II it sounds great. The neck position is great for any other kind of music and will sound good with anything.