Musiclily Pro ST-60S Staggered Alnico 5 Single Coil Neck Middle Bridge Pickups Set 5.8K for Strat Style Electric Guitar, White

Original middle pickup in one of two '89 AS Strats I bought new mysteriously failed. Used the opportunity to experiment with this set after hearing them in a video review. Didn't expect much (and was even rather sentimental about opening my oldest guitar), but was shocked at the instant upgrade to my sound. Bandmate agreed, wife did too. Its simply a different sound than whatever they were putting in the AS Strats in '89. Where those flat pole pickups had a sort of lonely, aloof, clinical, even chilly clarity and jangle that I learned to love, these are warm, cohesive, unified, rounded, intimate in a way I didn't know could be part of a strat's character. All the chunk, bell, and jangle I'd wanted 35 years back without working around the icy and boomy aspects. After trying to figure out why pickups would make this difference, I gathered that these are working off the '69 model's design, which were made quite differently. Confident enough in that conclusion that this inexpensive set might just get me to try some CS-69s on my other strat for comparison. I did try another inexpensive brand's highly touted flat-pole pickups on my other guitar after this experiment, and found they did basically replicate my old sound fine... but now I'm into this older sound. Do know that pickup height matters a lot, esp. with the ALNICO V magnets, maybe even more with these staggered poles. Which, btw, were a reason at first for me to NOT buy these-- the idea of staggered poles felt like a sentimentality, being a relic of a different time when necks were rounder and strings were different, not applicable to today's guitars. But now I think this now-arbitrary stagger may actually be part of what's responsible for what I like-- for whatever reason.

I bought the set to replace the stock set in my Yamaha Pacifica - it's an HSS setup so I'm only using the neck and middle positions. Really happy with the purchase, and great value for what you get. Whereas with the stock set up I almost always defaulted to the bridge/humbucker, now I use middle position a lot more. For the price, you really can't go wrong.

まず見た目が良いですね。マウントすると見えませんがビンテージ感があってそれだけでもテンションが上がります。 音質はブライトな印象でパワー感もそこそこありますがフェライト磁石P.U.から載せ替えると細くなったと感じるかもしれません。 素性の良い安ギターをグレードアップしたい方には最高だと思います。

These pickups are amazing. I wanted vintage sounding pickups from the 60s. I compared the specs to Fender Custom Shop 69s and I thought I would give them a go at a fraction of the price. Not that anyone will see it once installed, but I believe it is a fiber bobbin and they have cloth covered wires. They look how they should for a vintage build. Only thing that would make it better is instead of springs, having the rubber tubing for spacing. The wires are nice and long. I have no plans on removing these pickups, so I trimmed the wires down and was able to use the trimmed wire to fully wire all of the pots and switch. Some people may be put off with the pole for the B string is below the pickup guard, however this is accurate for the stagger. Now the sound can go from crystal clean, to a good crunch, handles distortion well. Not sure if it's fully the pickups, as I did the blender mod with a no load tone using CTS pots. It sounds better than I had hoped, better than other guitars I tried with much more expensive pickups. They are very versatile.

Used these to upgrade a friend’s Squier Bullet. They are a huge step up from the ceramics that came in his guitar.