Truly beautiful to look at these pickups are absolutely noise free with very clear tone. All positions sound great. The neck spot is very good for jangly chording, while the 4 position (the key to stratophile)is really amazing. It has extra power compared to normal strat but still plenty of cluck. The guard is gorgeous,I picked the white perloid and put it on a vintage white body..wow!! Didn't know strats could be so elegant. Installation easy...just two solder connections (make sure you have room for a humbucker...if not you'll need a router) Pricey perhaps but well worth it!

I install this on a Mex Strat Deluxe with vintage hardware and noiseless pickups. It was difficult to find my tone with the stock pickups. Nobody I know was familar with the Alumitone pickups, so this purchase was a gamble. First I want to tell ya, the tone is very nice. I get real smooth lows and nice screaming highs with very little effort. I,m playing thru a Fender Super Champ XD tube amp and a Boss tube overdrive pedal. My tone is a cross between SRV and Robin Trower and I am very happy with my sound using these pickups. I also use a Digitech RP250 modeling processor for my home practice time. These pickups make that thing sound awesome which is saying alot. Second thing I want to say is these pickups are VERY quiet, almost noise gate quiet. I plug staight into my amp crank it up. Base on 8, treble on 7, voiceing on 2 (fender Baseman setting), volume on 7, and gain on 4. I get very low noise, I mean unbeleivable low noise. The neck and middle pickups give me a very smoothand fat tone, much smoother than fender stock. The humbucker at the bridge screams nicely. I could'nt be happier with thses pick-ups. The output from these is a little lower than the fender pickups. So you have crank up the amp volume a notch or two, but with the sweet tones I get, this is no problem at all. I did have to cut the lead wires the the guitar input plug because the plug on a Fender is a seperate cutout hole. No problem, just cut the wires, feed them thru the hole and wirenut them back together. Everything else was completely ready to go. It took maybe 5 minutes to install this thing, very easy. I'm definatley going to keep these and re-install them when I upgrade my guitars. If you choose to take a chance on these pickups, you won't be disappointed.