These pickups sounded fine but I wouldn't consider these upgrades if you plan on using them in import guitars. The one disappointing thing is that the humbucker is a bit muddy sounding. For an alnico 5 pickup, it seems like it's missing some high frequencies that I'm used to. Given that the humbucker is a bit muddy, it makes the two single coil sounded way too bright in comparison. At least the positive thing about the humbucker is that it doesn't have a weird mid range honk that some namebrand pickup from the 90's tend to have. Regardless of its shortcomings, this is not a bad set of pickups for the price.