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Pros & Cons
Pros
Handles distortion very well. Had to resize the pickgard, other than that, no problem. Used these to swap out my ceramics from a mim strat.
Heaviest in the bridge and lightest in the neck. Resistance is 5. Midrange is there but its nice and round. When installed upside down the pickups fit in the body recesses.
They sound very close to the stock pickups on my real fender stratocaster! Very nice strat single coil waves outta these! I play mostly clean roots rock stuff so it does what i want. I have to keep doing a double take when i play my strat that has the... Read More
Cons
The guitar sounds good in the 2nd or 4th position but sounds cheap and lacking in the bridge only or neck only. Of the three only two worked.
Highlights
Quality
Two words to describe my sentiment great product
I rebuilt an inexpensive asian strat style guitar and wanted to improve its tonal quality
Some folks think that you have to spend a lot of to get quality pups but i would suggest that you let your ears decide and not your wallet
Use a multimeter to find the pickup with the highest resistance thats the bridge
Price
Nice difference in the sound and the price is excellent
Just make sure not to tell everyone because soon these will cost 190 per set like texas specials
Competitiveness
I bought these as a curiosity based on the low price for alnico 5 pickups
Overview
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good, middle, great, set and cheap. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 150 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 27 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Even if you are a nitrocellulose sniffing guitar snob maxwells equations dont work any differently if you paid 200 for boutique picks
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Hum hancelling reverse wound center as advertised
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The advertised resistance was on the north side of 5
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But as someone else said the bridge pickup is too brittle
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive sense purchased 3 more sets moved the magnets and then had friends listen to see if they could tell me what brand and type of pup
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Dirt cheap sounds like a strat
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The one with yellow wire is neck blue is middle and white is bridge
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Nobody has to know they were so cheap
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