Fender Hot Noiseless 3 Pickup Set White 

These pickups came on a Fender Highway One Stratocaster that I purchased off craigslist. I've struggled to get the right sound before panicking and spending a ton of dough to replace them. I am in complete agreement with the reviewer who suggested that these pickups need a lot of adjustment until you hit a sweet spot. At the right height you get a nice blues tone with plenty of midrange and some classic Fender single coil sparkle that picks up all the pick scrapes and nuances of your particular picking style. A really beautiful transparent tone that's clear as a glass of water. Frankly, they are not completely noiseless in that sense as they demonstrate a great amount of sensitivity to your pciking. I have found the in-between positions of the neck-middle and middle-bridge to be a little flat with a noticeable drop in volume. And my tone gets a little muddy and woofy when I play through my Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz pedal. Any other pedal -analog delay, distortion, wah, for example- and these pickups come through my amp with great clarity and can produce a really pleasing tone that just makes you want to hear more. Direct to a tube amp or a nice solid state like my Roland Blues Cube, and you'll dial in Fender magic. May lose some clarity with some pedals...but then you might be able to say that about any pickup! But at the end of the day, this can be a very temperamental pickup. Beware!

These are by far the best Strat sound I have played yet ! Custom shop 69's are great too but these noiseless are the pure Strat tone hands down. Imagine Hendrix meets Cash and that is what is on tap. Gigged with them last night in a MIM 50's reissue and was killing my lead guitar players standard US Strat as far as tone was concerned. I've read mixed reviews on these p'ups but I have a smile on my face after what they did for my playing. Very happy.

As a guitar player of over 30 years, I have been lucky to play thousands of guitars through just as many amps. This offer from fender is just what you would expect from a Company that is trying to re-invent themselves against modern manufactures that, quite frankly, out perform them in every area. My first complaint is, as mentioned earlier, you cant change the color of the covers. Your stuck with what you buy. ( I guess they must think the word "noiseless" is worth this oversight) Second, Dont expect much except a slightly quieter signal. These are not HOT pups. I found them to be thin and uninspiring. You can do 1000% better with a set of Fralins. They were back in the box for return before my guitar stopped sustaining !

2010 Fender Standard Stratocaster. I put new CTS Pots, CRL 5-way, Switchcraft Jack. Full and very warm sounding and it now has that strat thing, Stock it didn't that that strat wah to it.It takes sometime finding the right pickup height to strings. You can get what you out of them by adjustment. Very happy.