Update:I've been having a hard time finding a home for these pickups. I tried them in a few different guitars with no luck. While the neck pickup sounded fine, the bridge is very underwhelming, dark and muddy sounding. I decided to remove the cover for the bridge pickup and it improved the tone TREMENDOUSLY. In fact, the pickup sounded a lot like Seymour Duncan JB humbucker now. It's so close that I could barely tell the difference. The bridge pickup without the cover now sounded more alive with more midrange bite and more clarity between notes even through high gain distortion.Switching between the neck and bridge sounded more coherent like they are more of a matched pair. I plan on getting a few more of these pickups to out in my other guitars. Highly recommended!Previous review:The pickups do have pretty high output and push amps very well. They're great for high-gain amps that are overly bright. The tonal response for these pickups are a bit disappointing. Despite being Alnico 5 magnets, they don't have the high end content that I would expect from this type of magnets. The bridge pickup has a lot of midrange honk despite using 500k ohm pot. Using 300k pot might help to tamp down the midrange honk but you would compromise the high end content. If you plan to use the pickups with no volume pot, you will get a lot of midrange response like a wah pedal is left on. So if you plan to get these pickups, you'll have to use 500k pots but nothing higher.The pickups can be coil tap. The neck as a single coil sounded okay with a nice throaty growl thanks to the higher output. The single coil mode in the bridge sounded okay but nothing to write home about.While these have high outputs, they're nothing exciting compared to other pickups with the same type of magnets. They are okay to use as long as there's a wider option for you to tweak the tone and frequency response on your amp. I firmly believe that great tone should start with the guitar and therefore with the pickups. These are fine, but unfortunately they're not the best.