Fender Vintage Noiseless Hot Strat

Frist of all, sorry for my english. Its a little rusty.

Hot Noiseless??? Strat?? Pickups (Set of 3).
DC Resistance :10.4K
Inductance : 3.5 Henries
Magnet : 2 Ceramic 8
Weighted Resonance : 3,100 Hertz

I have a Washburn Lyon with a homemade boost. The stock Pickups, even with the boost, sounded boring and muddy. Got a set of 3 Hot Noiseless and removed the boost.

The noiseless are installed with one 1Meg Volume control, one 500k tone control for neck pickup and a 500k push-pull pot for bridge and to turn on an off the bridge pickup when the neck pickup is on and the neck pickup when the bridge in on.

Theese pickups are very loud for single coil pickups. And they are really quiet. I have one Marshall Valvestate 8040.

We cant forget that they are, stacked, but single coil pickups, so dont expect a humbucker sound. The second coil in each pickup jus cancel the hum, so they are "noiseless". And They really are.

Neck: Very bluesly sound, have lots of trebble. To more bass sound you can use the tone pot.
Middle: Very brilliant sound, great for open chords and funky stuff.
Bridge: Wild, very, very trebly.

They work very well with distortion too.

If it was destroyed or stolen, I would replace them with the same set.
Best of all, they are not exispensive.

Passive (HB? I don't remember) 10.4K or something

3 set. Replace SD Little '59 & 2 Texas Specials. If Jeff Beck has a guitar with these in them I'll kiss your ass. I wanted a hotter fuller PU.

They sure aren't hot. The neck and middle are boring. The bridge sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. I even tapped it into the middle tone control to try to get rid of that. Now it sounds muddy AND wimpy.

I really wanted these to work. Nobody wants to be out 140 bucks. I researched the heck out of this. My original pickups are going back in or I'll get a SD JBJR and move the Little '59 to the neck. It's too bad that local music stores can't afford to stock products anymore. At one time I could have gone somewhere and tried these out. Now you have to rely on forums (don't tell me to adjust the pickup height) and still pretty much buy blind. While we're at it, Vista really sucks too.

These here pickups have a pretty quite noise level, which is good. Aren't many features...

I installed this into my 2007 American Standard Stratocaster as I was getting irritated about the noise from my stock neck and middle pickups, and I wanted something more beefy than what was already in the guitar. I decided to keep the Dimarzio Virtual Solo in the bridge because I haven't heard anything much better than the Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder, but I didn't want to copy my dad to that extent.

The output is okay, right now I'm using it with a 30 or so year old Rat distortion pedal into a Fender Twin. The pickups sound good with the Rat, but when the Rat isn't in use the tone is really sterile. Somehow they managed to suck out the magical midrange that makes a pickup sound good to my ear. They'll do, but don't bother with the bridge position one because it sounds like hell.

If I had more money to flaunt around I'd replace both with Seymour Duncans of some sort as I was really pleased by their Little '59 for the Tele. The Fender Noiseless are good for a overdriven Jeff Beck sound, but not much else. It really should have a better clean sound, but I'm finding that the only good clean sound is my Martin D-35... so far almost everything else I've played on in the past 9 years sucks.

Although called "vintage", these pups are modern in appearance except for the great old "nicotine-yellow" color of the covers. Other reviewers have praised the tone of these gems and I agree whole-heartedly! However, here's a secret that I discovered quite by accident: DO NOT INSTALL 1-meg pots (as recommended) in your guitar. 1-megs remove about 1/3 of the over-all output of the pup and completely erase the mids (balls) from the guitar!!! By using 250K pots, the pups are allowed to run free and run they do. The resistance is much lower and the pick-ups just "blossom"!!! It sounds like 3, P90's but "out-of-phaseable". The neck position is SICK!

I put these puppies in a 1993 American Peavey Predator (Strat). This guitar is solid as a rock and the combination just "sings"! I don't think that they would be quite as good in a plywood strat. They seem to convey what the body sounds like.

Again, the out-put is more substantial without the 1meg pots and the guitar sounds great in almost any amp. Bear in mind that these are not "heavy metal" pick-ups even though they DO sound great over-driven... The tone is exceptional and smooth over the whole bandwidth.

They're are some GREAT pick-ups out there (GFS) that are also noiseless with great tone but for me, in a strat, these guys are perfect! I can go from Surf Strat to Hard-Rockin' blues in a second and everything in between. What else do you want?!

Noise-cancelling stacked passive single coils with ceramic magnets and flat (non-staggered) polepieces. The title of this review thread is misleading. They are NOT called Vintage Noiseless Hot, just Hot Noiseless. Used to be called Hot Ceramic Noiseless, but the "ceramic" made too many people wary of them, I suppose. There is nothing vintage in them. Anachronistically staggered polepieces, magnets that lose their magnetism, brittly wire, vulcanised paper bobbins and the laser-sword-hissing are notably absent. These are modern pickups for a Stratocaster. The only "vintage"-feature is the colour (dirty ivory), and trust Fender to mess this up: It fits none of the plastic-part-colours they offer in their instruments or accessories.

I have a reasonably well-made Mexican Fender Stratocaster from the first series. The stock pickups were a mere travesty of the electric guitar pickup. Totally useless, I was on the verge of selling the whole guitar. Instead I bought the set of Hot Noiseleess pickups and now have a completely different, functional and good sounding guitar.

The pickups are called "Hot", but except for marketing purposes there is no reason for this. Their output is not high at all, indeed they seem to have less output than the stock so-called pickups in the MIM-Strat. As I said, these pickups are modern pickups in the sense that they do the job of a pickup exceptionally well. Bill Turner, the guy who designed them, knew what he was doing: Designing a pickup, not designing a coloration of the sound of the guitar. Consequently you must be prepared to accept that the whole frequency-spectrum of your guitar is sent to the amp. No added mids, no midscoop, no added treble, just the noises the wood, the strings and your fingers make. I like that. Getting a good tone is difficult enough. If you want to add a fourth variable to the equation of fingers, instrument and amp go ahead, go vintage....

All the above does not mean that the pickups are sterile. Not at all, they are exeptionally dynamic, the neck position has the right amount of bass and bite, the bridge pickup is classic strat (not overwound) and not too shrill. The real fun comes in the in-between-positions. Pure bliss, stratocaster sound deluxe. The strings seem to be able to vibrate more freely, the magnets are not as strong as in a pure single-coil. And don't be afraid of the "ceramic". The ceramic pickups in cheap guitars are shrill and harsh because of the bad pickup-contruction, the magnets themselves do not make a sound, they make a magnetic field. The Hot Noiseless are very "silky" and smooth, surprisingly so. The balance between the strings is great, probably due to the non-staggered polepieces. Anyone still uses a wound third string? Thought so....

They sound good in front of any amp (Class-A-Tube or Solid-State) and their neutral frequency response goes well with any effect.

And they are really noiseless, even at higher gain setings. They go well with blues, country, classic rock, probably everything else you would use a strat for. For me the blues.

As far as Stratocasters go, my search for a good pickup has ended here. I can't be bothered with trying out everything under the sun. From what I hear, there are small manufactureres who do a better job than Fender, and this is probably true. But I stick with the Fender Hot Noiseless pickups: They are modern, with character, and do not change the general sound of the guitar. All others (tried the Texas Specials and Duncan SSL) try to make your guitar into something that it is not. Might be useful to compensate for shortcomings of the instruments or to enhance your preferred sound (dark or bright), but you always lose something at one end when you add something at the other. I go for the faithful reproduction. I am simply too old (been playing for a couple of decades) to run after the sound of the long-dead heroes of my youth. And don't contemporary guitar players tend to go for active pickups? The Hot Noiseless might be the way to go if you want the sound of active pickups and - like me - you hate the thought of a battery in your guitar (what next? touch pads? remote controls?)

Single coil passive set.

Warmoth strat with alder body and birdseye neck with stainless steel frets that I put together from scatch. Full set of three.

Calling them them hot in the traditional sense is a bit misleading, but they are livelier than tradition strat pickups. Not crazy about the middle position (but I don't go there much anyway, so it's set a bit low), but through my 50 watt plexi and one of the old basketweave boxes they shine expecially in positions one and five, giving a nice crunchy tone with sweet highs that are neither shrill or overly twangy. Great for hard rock and 70's style metal, though for real OTT heavy metal of today maybe not so suitable. But still great sounding. On a clean setting they are head, shoulders and kneecaps above most strat pickups, especially in posi's two and four. If you are looking for a nice juicy sound like Robert Cray, just go with a smidge of chorus and they gush.

I would definitely replace these pickups if they were stolen or smashed. I tend to build my own guitars these days, sometimes from Warmoth parts or from scratch (LOTS of work!) and love to try new pickup/wood combinations. My "Jeff Beck" Strat is my current fave...it gives the strat sound I really like, very smooth and mellow with appropriate grunt when required. If I want something harsher or more suited to modern metal, I would go elsewhere, but for sweet yet muscular strat tones, these are my faves.

Hot noiseless fender strat

Fender Jeff Beck Custom

Superb. However, putting these pickups in inferior guitars with cheap wood as some reviewers have stated, will not guarantee a good sound.
also, when I read how some reviewers have a long list of boxes and effects between their guitar and their amp it screams amateur hour. A great strat and a good amp don't need anything else to sound great!

I'll use them forever.

Single coil, passive.

Mid-90's CIJ 68 Reissue Strat
Preplaced older model, un-identifiable Duncans
Discovered that this parts o'caster needed a total electronic update. Replaced pups along with Fender pots and pickguard. Old Duncan's were too thin sounding and there wasn't enough tonal difference between the five positions.

Here's my two cents to some already good info I gleaned from these listings:

Good: very articulate pickups in the classic strat sense. These have given me five very distinct tone options in my guitar. ALL ARE CLASSIC STRAT SOUNDS. If you've used a boost pedal, or are familiar with what they do, these pickups sound like a regular strat through one of these effects. They have a boosted sound with more presence than typical strat pickups. But the sound is still a 100% Strat. Someone wrote that these pickups "modernized" their strat, and I think that's a good way to look at the upgrade. Did I mention they're dead silent.

Bad: the label "hot" is a bit misleading and the hype and mp3 sample Fender has on its website for this pickup (and the JB Strat) may alter some expectations about these pups. These are not crazy JB hot sounding pickups along the lines of the Duncan JB humbucker or a Flying V. Don't let the Jeff Beck endorsement lead you to think you're going to get a hot shredding sound out of these. You're still working with single coils and the sound is still in the Strat family.

Other: That being said, these fit the bill incredibly well and I'm very happy I went with these over the vintage noiseless pups that you find on the Eric Clapton Strat and the various custom shop model pups.

I'm playing through a Hot Rod Deville 4x10 and this guitar sounds amazing through it with just a touch of reverb. Sustain and note decay is just long enough to let your fingers contribute to your tone. They respond well to effects, but the natural Strat tone is what I love most. I play blues, classic rock and some country.

Would definitely buy again. Have played hundreds of Strats over the past 25 years and these are the first pups (besides Texas Specials) that I've noticed a true tonal difference. Unlike the Texas Specials, you're not going to sound like one of the thousands of SRV devotees out there playing them. There is some uniqueness to having a Strat stand out on its own merits. Don't buy if you're looking for a true "hot" or "shred" sound. Go with a shredder axe or humbuckers.
Only complaint is Fender's wiring diagram. The one that came with the pups was photo-copied and illegible. Download the one from the Fender site for the Jeff Beck strat (same wiring for any strat). Make sure that you pay attention to where the wires are soldered to the pot posts. Fender does not label them and it took me a couple hours to figure out that that makes the volume and tone knobs work. Beyond that, it was easy to diy install. Compared to the cost of custom shop pickups, these are a much better deal.

Single Coil Stacked Humbucking-passive

2007 Fender MIM Stratocaster. Installed complete set. The reason I did this was because the pickups that came stock although not sounding bad to were way too noisey if played in the 1-3-5 positions. I looked at Fender Vintage Noiseless, Kinmans, Lindy Fralins and Bill Lawrence offerings. Decided to go with the Fenders "Hot" set since I primarily play blues and classic rock with a little hard rock and metal.

Can't say enough how important it is to adjust the pickup heights! Of course that is true for ANY guitar but especially one equipped with single coils. After shielding the control cavity and pickguard completely I installed them and tested everything using a digital multi-meter then buttoned it up and restrung it. Immediately I noticed NO 60Hz hum in ANY of the positions. From there I began adjusting the pickup heights and after about a hour I found the sweet spot for all of them. It is simply a wonderful sounding instrument now. At 3/4 volume on each pickup individually (1-3-5) I get a very, very "Stratty" sound with lots of tonal definition. In the 2 and 4 positions I get the world famous "quack" these guitars are known for. And cranking the volume to full on it dirtys up enough to puch the amp into overdrive. I use a variety of amps. They range from Marshall 2204 tube rectifier style heads and 4 x 12 cabinets to a POD XT Live (with every model pack installed) and 2 Tech 21 Power Engine 60's to a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe with pedalboard to a very old Sears Silvertone 212 piggyback head combo... and this guitar shines through them all! I own a '62 reissue Stratocaster (American made) and this MIM sounds better by a large margin. I also installed a Callaham bridge too and now the '62 stays home in the case when I gig!

If It were destroyed or stolen... this guitar would certainly get replaced the exact same way! Fenders American made offerings IMHO are only marginally better than the MIM counterparts... and if you change out the pickups and bridge/tuners you have a better sounding guitar and for a hell'ava lot less money and your not afraid to play the thing out regularly!

Stacked single coil pickups with ceramic magnet.

Installed in a Fender MIM Strat because I wanted to get rid of the "thin" Fender tone in all positions.

Great mid-range tone from all three pickups. The tone is thicker and fuller than other Fender pickups. You need to adjust the pickup heights according to your particular taste. Time must be spent to dial in your tone. I like the tone when the pickups are set closer to the high e strings and a lower on the low e strings.

I've been using these pickups for at least three years now and like the sound that I get out of my Strat. I play classic rock and oldies and the tone is just great. It is not for someone who likes the heavy rock/metal/fat sound. They need to get a Gibson type of humbucker guitar.

Fender Vintage Noiseless Hot Strat
Reviewing the actual pickups here. Not a Strat with 'em in it. I bought a set of 3, and they are each honed in differently. The neck pickup will give you a lovely thick tone in clean mode (using the neck position in lead mode isn't really my thing). The bridge pickup gives you a super hot screaming tone on lead mode, and when used with the middle pickup you get a creamy Hendrix like tone. On clean, the bridge pickup gives you that Telecaster twang which is nice for a bit of blues, or some 'Stones or the like. Extremely versatile. 10/10 here.

Put them in a Fender Cycone II model (basically a Jagstang, but with three Jag single coils instead of one s/c and a 'bucker). The guiar itself has a Strat tremolo system, so they fitted right in it. Paid a fella in Dublin City to put them in (a measly ???40, and you get the peace of mind, knowing that if he cocks it up, he's buying you a new one!). They were originally designed and used by Jeff Beck, but I know the new Clapton Signature Strat has these in instead of the old Lace Sensors. Surely a good sign! They're fairly new on the market, so they haven't had a chance to flourish all that well. I put these in instead of the Jag pickups, 'cause they were found wanting in the 'clean' department, and weren't really up to the standard of a Strat with a bit of dirt either. I orginally wanted the Fender Texas Special pickups (the ones Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits uses), but saw these and decided to get them instead. I thought they'd be too good to be true. Surely they'd have a BIT of hum? But no. Not the faintest whisper. I was amazed. So were all my guitar playin buddies. I highly recommend them!

I've covered this already, really, so I'll be brief.
Clean Mode: Using the neck pickup alone, you get a funky 'Under The Bridge' tone. Using this with the middle pickup you get more of a 'Little Wing' tone. And the bridge pickup gives you a twangy Telecaster sound.

Dirty Mode: The bridge pickup is a lot hotter than the others. It will let you pump out endless screaming pinch harmonics, or a lighter surf rock sound. On my Peavey Bandit 112, if you turn down the Pre-gain, and flip it into Tube-gain, you get a crisp clear, but crunchy tone. Turning it up, gives you a GN'R sound. Flip on the middle pickup aswell, and you get a deeper, but still creamy and full tone. All of 'em on, gives you a super fat tone, but it's not really my bag.

If these pickups were broken, I probably would buy a new set. The fact that they're from America probably means they won't for a very long time. I was tempted to buy DiMarzios at the time as well, but they're only good for one thing: shredding, which we all grow out of. I'm more of a blues, and classic rock man at the moment. But there was a time when I used to race through 'Beat It' solos and 'Eruption' (well, I tried Eruption. Only get the tapping down. Then I grew up...). Also 'Hot For Teacher' was another. These pickups could easily do all that. And now I also play Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and a fair bit of Oasis and Stone Roses. Even some Bob Marley. These pickups are a dream come true. Only a matter of time before they're all standard on Strats.

These appear to be noisless single coil and is a fuul set of three.
They are rated as 10's but that is hard to believe.

These are a full set installed on an Amerivan Deluxe Strat V neck. The are replacing the stock S1 system.
These are standard in the Jeff Beck Strat.
I was looking for a fuller, hotter sound.

They are advertised as hot but are actually low output and thin to my ears.
I am using a Vibroking with OCD, Boss delay, and Chorus-Flange.
The tone is very trebly and unbalanced. The neck and middle pickups are about twice as loud as the bridge.
I play mostly classic rock and they sound awful -No crunch and thin. They feedback like crazy if I try to boost the signal with pedals. They do not even sound good playing mellow material.

They do not have to get lost. I am changing them ASAP.
I have been playing 35 years. I have many guitars including PRS McCarty Soapbar, LP Custom, ES347, Strat Plus with Hot, vintage, and cool rails (sound great), Mesa Single Rec, Stiletto.
It is hard to shop for pickups since they can't be test driven very easily. All my research seemed to be that this was the right choice but I was really wrong. In addition, I am out some money between the cost of the pups as well as installation. Luckily I had these wired to a new pickguard with 250K pots and my original system is totally intact. Live and Learn.

his Noiseless pickup set was designed exclusively for Jeff Beck. Jeff wanted a bigger sound and better tonal dynamics than a standard single coil pickup could deliver

DC Resistance :10.4K
Inductance : 3.5 Henries
Magnet : 2 Ceramic 8
Weighted Resonance : 3,100 Hertz

2002 MIM strat with maple neck, all positions. I replaced 2 stock pickups and a Carvin twin blade humbucker in the bridge.

The output is hot, higher than the carvin TB60 humbucker. If you play soft, they clean up real well, dig in harder and they distort very nicely. Very versatile.

I play contemporary Praise Band style music, pop, rock stuff. For the quiet sections you can play soft chimey chords / arpeggios. For the loud parts you can play the distorted power chords, with just differences in your attack. Leads sould very liquid and great tone, and I can now use all 3 pickups (5 switch positions) cuz they are NOISELESS.

They sound like a cross between a humbucker, powerful, but not muddy, and a single coil. Not quite as bright or thin, but still has much of the bell like chime.

If your strat sounds too thin for you, these are the ticket. I've used hot rails, carvins TB60 and AP11, and these are much better.

I've been playing 30+ years. These sound great directly into a tube amp, I use a pignose g60v. Add a ts-9 tube screamer and you can duplicate all the great classic rock tones.

I use a Digitech GNx4 at church for effects and variety and EQ, and volume control. It sounds fantastic with the marshall model, twin reverb model, rectifier, etc. It does it all.

This is the first pickup that I've ever been totally satisfied with. I just want to keep playing them. Most others I've tried such as hot rails and TB60 are an improvement, but still leave me wanting more. They have low output humbucker sound, but lose the stat sound.

I need to keep the strat sound, since my other guitars are gibsonSG, epi les paul, prs custom 24, strat with gibson humbucker, homemade les paul jr, home made strat with fulll size humbuckers. I need the single coil sound some times but can not have any noise or hum at church. Very demanding venue for hum / noise.

stacked single coil, passive.

Warmoth hollow body mahogany strat, rosewood neck.
All positions
doesn't matter
I wanted a hot single coil with no hum that was sharp enough to balance out the warm hollow mahogany body.

hot, almost as hot as a humbucker.
peavey 5150, 535Q wah > voodoo labs sparkle drive > small stone > 5150.
At the bridge position the highs and mids are ear piercing, in the other two positions the pickup lacks character, no warmth what so ever, just thin piercing notes. The lows on the neck and middle positions are adequite. The bridge pup is useless and will be replaced, dimarzio solo maybe. Dimarzio vv blues for the other two.

If these pickups disappeared out of my guitar i would be so happy. I have not been playing for more than 5 years, and don't own much gear, but i know when a pickup sucks. The quality of build isn't even good, The covers barely fit, and were sloppily put on. I would not recomend these to anyone, maybe i just have something against ceramic magnets, but these pickups sound horrible. Another reviewer said "sterile", thats whats these are. I will probably never buy a ceramic magnet pickup again, and probably won't try fender pickups again.

passive single coil, ceramic magnet

Squire Standard Stratocaster, all positions, replacing stock alnicos, wanted to eliminate hum

definitely have higher output, drives an amp into distortion at lower gain levels than stock pickups and eliminates hum as advertised, BUT the TONE is STERILE compared to standard alnico single coils and the build quality is horrible: magnet wire sloppily wound and sealed with scotch tape with pickup covers that don't fit very well.

I wouldn't get these again, and am planning on shielding the guitar and putting the stock pickups in.

Pickup features: Single coil, passive, noiseless
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: 1984-85 Squire Stratocaster
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Stock Squire Pickups
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: Jeff Beck
You musical style(s): Classic Rock, Blues, Metal
Reason for pickup change: The orignial pickups were very musical, but extremely noisy in my setup.

Perceived output level: Hotter than vintage pickups
Tone: Warmer than the vintage pickups, but has slightly less 'sparkle' as well
Sonic evaluation: I am running these pickups in a Japanese Squire through a Fender Blues Deluxe and a Marshall DSL100 head through a JCM900 1960A cab loaded with Celestion G12-T75's.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: These pickups are great for classic rock and blues, even old metal.

Comments: These pickups are able to drive the crunch channel on my Marshall very nicely, even better than my Gibson Les Paul with their orininal humbuckers. I found the overall sound of these pickups not that different than the originals, but much quieter and hotter. With these pickups I was mostly aiming for that classic strat sparkly clean sound which I got minus the noise of the vintage pickups. I am very happy with them.

Pickup features: Passive dual coil
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Fender "Jeff Beck" artist signature strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Pups are factory placed
Other pickups on guitar: -
Artists using this pickup: Jeff Beck, probably...
You musical style(s): Classic rock, blues, country and fusion
Reason for pickup change: N/A

Perceived output level: Hotter than regular strat
Tone: Balanced, very wide spectrum due to the ceramic magnets, almost hi-fi sound
Sonic evaluation: I use a pre-amp on all of my passive-equipped strats, so here, the volume pot (25kohm) comes after the pre-amp, the pups run without load and show their extensive spectrum. As described above, if you play the guitar plain (e.g. through a hi-fi system), you'll hear a crystal clear, almost acoustic sound. Totally different than alnico pups (alnicos have a rather limited spectrum and a less hi-fi sound). That's what I also heard when, after making my set-up, I first tuned the guitar on my Korg PX-4 (tuner bypass mode) through headphones. But when I connected it on a real guitar amp, that's where the personality of the hot noiseless came shiny through. On clear settings, you have a very decent, thus extremely dynamic and expressive, very modern strat sound. Especially switch modes 2 and 4 deliver that L.A. crystal clean, chorus sound, as you may know it from Luke, M. Landau etc., but without needing that high end equipment... Just plug it on a simple Fender twin and see (listen..). The bridge pup is piercing, but not that much disturbing, after al many things depend on the amp's settings. The dynamics are to-die-for, in the meantime this JB strat became my mainly practicing axe, as, to get a sound out of it you got to really work on (as Jeff Beck also states..).
On crunch and ovedrive settings, the sensation was total: First of all, these pups are dead-quiet. They deliver high-end crunchy sounds, focused and somehow mid scooped (never expecting that when you've heard these pups clean...). Very nice and heavy bottomed chords, sounding good on higher gain settings. Through a DSL-50 Marshall, with moderate gain setting and fingerstyle, you come close to that modern JB sound. Still a 100% strat sound, but more contemporary. Lead licks come through without no problems. Bridge pup is very versatile on that, the neck one is more a singer. Harmonics sound very loud and precise (supported also by the nice wood). The pups are not microphonic in general, except some situations of very high volume playing, especially through the monitors.
Summarizing, the hot noiseless deliver an overall modern strat sound, with extreme dynamics and spectrum.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: For rock and fusion, these pups are home. Especially modern sounding rock music and 80's mainstream fit perfect..

Comments: Currently own 5 different strats, equipped with Kinmans, DiMarzios and EMG SA's. The Jeff Beck one is by far the most modern strat, obviously 99% due to the hot noiseless pups!!! Comparing with other strats of the same art (alder body, rosewood fingerboard, std. am. tremolo), it sounds totally different. So these pups are a big complement in my strat collection. I'd really miss'em. I wouldn't place them, if I had only one strat, as I come more from classic rock and blues sounding music, and this stuff is better supported by more vintage sounding (means alnico...) pups. But for what they deliver, they are 100% on the target...
The pups are nice and solid built, covers come with a decent "Noiseless" decal. Though, if you swap covers, look out how you take the cover from pup, not to damage the coil endings. Another nice detail is the correct spacing of the pole pieces for neck and middle pups, as, on the JB strat (on which mainly they are designed to be placed) with the std. am. tremolo, strings are narrower spaced than on a vintage trem unit.
I fully recommend the hot noiseless to people who like a modern sounding strat, underlining all three words: "Modern", "Sound", "Strat"!!!

Pickup features: Three single coil noisless pickups
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: MIJ Strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Lace Sensor Blue (N) Silver (M) Gold (B)
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: Jeff Beck
You musical style(s): All over the map, Rock to R&B, Blues, Funk.....
Reason for pickup change: Wiring was acting wonky, so decided that if I needed to rewire things, I would swap out the PUPS. Never played the guit live, just picked up in hock shop for something to beat around. Have since, replaced pickguard, all electronics, saddles, nut, and a fret job. Now it's my #1 guitar.

Perceived output level: Slightly hotter than traditional single coils
Tone: Great overall tone, but the high end on the bridge pickup can be a little "ice-picky", so when rewiring I used the Eric Johnson wiring pattern, this takes the second tone knob, and instead of it controlling the mid PUP, it now alters the bridge. so you can roll off some of the high-end on the bridge PUP and it sounds fan-freakin-tastic. The two out of phase positions quack really really nicely. Clean these PUPS sound really great, and with a little dirt they can sing,
Sonic evaluation: Have played this guit through, a blues deville, 3x10, a hot rod deluxe 1x12, Line6 PodXT Live, fender princeton, and 65 deluxe reverb amps.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Again all sorts of music, and the sounds available to me from these PUPS and this guitar are versitile enough to cover them all

Comments: I would totally buy these again. I was looking at Kinman, and Fralin PUPS as well. For the price these were the best value. If I had unlimited cash, I may go with the Kinmans, but I may not, I really like these pickups.

Pickup features: Passive single coil picks that are wound like humbuckers
Impedence or other specs: Alinco V magnets

Model of guitar or bass: Mid 90`s Mexican Fender Strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Cheesy stock ones
Other pickups on guitar: N/A
Artists using this pickup: Jeff Beck
You musical style(s): Many styles of music
Reason for pickup change: Stock pickups made too mych noise

Perceived output level: nice clean sounds but sounds evil with the gain on it
Tone: trebly ( but depends with effects)
Sonic evaluation: Guitar in going thru my Boss GT-6 to my cheap Pignose

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: The pickups are a match for the music I want to play

Comments: Got them used , great value

Pickup features: stacked humbuckers
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Warmoth Strat project
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: New build, I got these in a pickguard assembly.
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: Supposed to be Jeff Beck model
You musical style(s): mostly country, rock,. blues
Reason for pickup change: New guitar build. I wanted something different. I got it.

Perceived output level: They sound louder than stock, great frequency response and projection.
Tone: Nota t all like Vintage, despite the name. Quite extended frequency response. Never muddy. A rather scooped sound.
Sonic evaluation: My Warmoth Strat project: light ash body, maple neck with ebony fingerboard with the Warmoth compound radius and high stainless steel frets. I use Crate tube amps. I've grown from "intersting tone" when I first played it to "what a great tone!" a short time later. Hard to describe the tone but I get great clean notes with excellent sustain and definiton. The overdriven tone is fine as long as it comes from the amp. These pickups are clean, clean, clean. When I bend a tone, the tone really hangs in there. It's big sound.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Not great for trad jazz ( too much built in treble) but appropriate for everything else. The in-between postions quack nicely.

Comments: If stolen, I'd probably get them again. It makes a nice compliment to my other Start with Rio Grande pickups. IF you're thinking you'll lose the Strat treble with these 'bucking pickups, fear not. The treble is there in all positions but it's never too sharp or thin sounding