I like to put Strats together. It's almost an addiction. So, I bought this pickup set to get a different sound than my other Strats have. In hindsight, I wish I had used Hot Gold sensors or Fender SCN pickups. The Red-Silver-Blue sensors are dead-quiet, give you distinctive tonal differences in each position, and have a really nice touch response. The only problem I have with them is that they don't sound like Strat pickups. There's absolutely no chime, twang is virtually non-existent, sparkle is mostly absent, and you won't get much glass at all. If you don't particularly care for the classic Strat sound, or if you've already got a good Strat, this pickup set will give you something different to play with, and that's why I still have them. They aren't "bad" pups by any stretch, they just won't get you a traditional Strat sound.

One more thing worth mentioning. The Blue sensor does have a bit of PAF tone to it, and the Red sensor is pretty hot, but don't expect over-the-top output. My EMG pickups are WAY, WAY stronger.

I have had three strats over the years and been separated from the first two for different reasons. I always wind up replacing the pick-ups and putting in this combination of Lace Sensor pickups. They just sound the best to me. I don't care if the the guitar is an AMerican or a MIM (which I have right now), I put these in and they give me they can handle what ever I can play.

these pickups are amazing, no feedback red-i put it in the bridge cuz of higher output it is amazing along with my digitech grunge pedal i can get a real crunchy sound and with my old bridge the feedback was way too loud for distortion.

silver- middle pickup is superbly better than most middle pickups not as loud but it has a great tone bell like very much i dont use it much cuz of my music style

blue- this gets a really good sound it has its not too powerful but its not weak and fade out like alot of neck pickups

overall a great buy coupled with a fender strat

I have a MIM (mexican) strat with a maple neck (the body of my guitar weighs as much as a les pauls, I don't know why but it does, which might affect tone). So I got the pickups installed, red for bridge, silver for mid and blue for neck. All pickups: Very noise free, hum free. The sound is very unnatural, or at least I mean abnormal from a standard 6 pole pickup, whether it's cheap or good. These have 32 something little magnets intead of 6. They are have nice output but you lose a lot of the noisy dynamics you'd get from duncans or emz type pickups. The plus is they're quite noise free, you can crank up the distortion and it's silent, unlike the stock pickups which hummed horribly. Pickups retain mostly entirely the natural harmonic, I would recommend these for recording if you want something clean even on high levels of volume and dist.

Clean: the blue is really great on clean, it has a very strong bluesy sound, mellow, bold sound but not necessarily a fat tone like the stock pickups had. The tone is not harsh. Somewhat bell like. not exactly jazzy, but very very close. Great for rock solos or leads though and nice for clean blues playing or jazz, just not exactly as belllike as the golds. the Silver is very very mellow, very low output, very weird to play in comb. w/ the red, since red is twice the output but does give you GREAT variety in sounds. The silver is excellent for jazz, okay for blues and awesome for some pink floyed type of soloing or that mellower sluggish lead sound. Clean, the silver is gorgeous, more bell like and fatter than the blue, but sacrifices volume harshly, very low output but superb tone. The Red, on clean it's quite harsh, a little too harsh, more of a snappy sound than bell like, retains the strat noise amazingly. Not as fat as it advertises, it's hot and loud, sustains very long, you'll enjoy that, not extremely long, but almost twice as long as the stock pickups on the strat, amazing for solos, not exactly a shred pickup, but you can pull it off nicely. It's got a sharp crisp sound, captures dynamics well but is not the HOT pickup you're thinking about. it's not a duncan or emz or anytying like that, it's just higher output. Nothing too extreme or great, it is not a grunge pickup at all though, the sound is too clean, it kills disonant chords, it's good for recording. get something dirtier for grunge, it's a good blues pickup with overdrive, it's excellent for that. and has a snice snappy blues tone but can be too harsh for clean chord playing.

A little overpriced I think, they aren't THAT much better than the stock pickups. Stock = Good, Lace sensors = Great but not Amazing. I'm happy, but I just feel I payed a little too much, but my guitar looks awsome now with black pickups.