Wow! This sounds really good for the price; actually, it just plain sounds good. Really good. It has a lot of that round, woody sound Strats are famous for ("Little Wing"), but there's also a really chimey high end that is almost metallic.I threw this into a Les Paul (and I hope that unsettles someone out there) as a proof of concept for an experiment I'm trying. If I liked it, I was planning on getting some Golden Age lipsticks.I'll pass. These are almost as good, half the price, and hands-down better than any other budget pickup I've tried. I wish they had higher output, but whatever, my amp is happy with them (7.5 ohms for the middle, btw).