Your favorite noiseless style Strat pickups

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Suhr noiseless pick guards and singles are great. Not sure if you can get them all preloaded though. They have the v70 option now as well.
 
Bill Lawrence SCNs are pretty darn good - they retain signature strat tones but have a little more bite on the bridge pup
 
I liked the Injectors great pickups. Better for me than the Duncan YJMS's
 
HerbieBoogie":2umenf1s said:
Dimarzio Area pickups sound pretty rad.
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I'll second this. You also get to choose from different models to get the "heat" just right for each position.

I'm also a heavy user of EMG S single coils. Love 'em.
 
I have the Area pups in my '73 strat. Thicker than your average single coil but not quite a HB. Still retains a single coil characteristic. These pups are quite the opposite of the stock pups which I found were noisy and thin. These are definitely keepers.
 
Love my Area pickups as well. I did a '61 in the middle and '58 in the neck.
 
This is one spot I like EMG's for, I've had better luck with their SC's than the 81/60's that I used to have, but they dont really sound like SC's. Also had good results with Duncan Cool Rails, their pretty quiet, fatter and a bit hotter than stockers, but still sound like SC's. I used Hot Rails for a few years and they are great pickups with no noise, but they dont sound like SC's at all, they do sound great though.
 
Rezamatix":19eukl7e said:
I ended up ordering a loaded pick=guard with the DiMarzio Injectors and the Area in the middle. lets see how it sounds.
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Cool. But if you don't like that, check out the Lace stuff. I really like their pickups and their single coils sound great. I put a Burgundy in the bridge of a Tele and a Silver and Gold in the middle and neck of a Jackson Dinky. They sound awesome.
 
rlord1974":1vadmpwj said:
I'm also a heavy user of EMG S single coils. Love 'em.
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Yeah, I thought I'd get a bit of heat for suggesting the EMG S pickups, but the first time using them I was legitimately shocked at just how "Stratty" they sound.
 
Rezamatix":1ulk7de9 said:
I ended up ordering a loaded pick=guard with the DiMarzio Injectors and the Area in the middle. lets see how it sounds.
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Nice! If you get a chance u should upload some clips. Your gonna love your strat even more :D
 
I just picked up the EMG David Gilmour package for a black Strat that I just got last week. Anybody have any experience with it? I know it's got the EXG and SPC features that I'm not familiar with.
 
I use the YJM Furys in my Jap Strat. They have that squelchy picking sound with all the harmonics you don't usually hear with a humbucker.
 
If the Dimarzios don't do it for you, hands down the best sounding noiseless singles that I've ever heard are Kinman.
 
rupe":ocdacm6b said:
If the Dimarzios don't do it for you, hands down the best sounding noiseless singles that I've ever heard are Kinman.
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Seconded. Threw a Kinman set into my CS Strat and they are amazing. Also a big fan of the Lace Holy Grails.
 
Another vote for Kinman. I've been running a pair in my Warmoth strat (w/JB Jr. @ bridge) for the last decade.
 
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