What are the absolute best noiseless strat pickups?

[IMENATOR]

Re: What are the absolute best noiseless strat pickups?

Whatever ones give me the tone I like, run through a Decimator G string noise gate, because that way I don't have to limit myself to "noiseless" pickups. I can get all the tone of whatever pickup I want to use, but without the buzz, and no change in tone that I can detect.

+1 here

 

[simonbaker]

Re: What are the absolute best noiseless strat pickups?

I've got HSS Kinmans in one guitar. Two 62s and an Extra Vintage HB. Really great pickups. They are technologically clever, and they do what they say.

I've got a Joe Barden tele neck pickup and a JB trembucker in my tele.

Now I'm looking for a noiseless middle Strat pickup to Nashville-ize the tele.

Looking at Dimarzio area 58 and Seymour STK-S4 as possibilities.

It would be great if there was a shootout of these and the Kinmans on the Web somewhere.

I'm quoting myself here, but I went with an Area58 for the middle.

I've wired it all with a Schaller Megaswitch, so I have three in between sounds, and not the middle on its own.

For my telecaster, the Area58 sounds fantastic. It works brilliantly with the JBE and the TB-4.

I'd say that it sounds as good as the Kinmans in this context, and they all sit happily with a 250k volume pot as well.