Good strat pickups for ROCK

Today I've been thinking and I need to change the stock pups in my 89 Korea strat. They sound a little thin and noise, plus I'd like them to be more hot sounding pickups for rock//reggae music that's my style...



sooo what kind of strat pups do you like for rock, but can get great cleans also?

I love my Lace Alumitone HSS set I put on my American deluxe last year. Dead quiet and can do just about anything you want.

Check out Bare Knuckles...their Irish Tours set sounds unbelievable. If you're wanting something harder-hitting they also make some good Strat metal-ish pups.

Seymour duncan
1)Pearly Gates Jr
2)JB Jr
3)Lil 59
4)ssl5

Has anyone try'd the Dimarzio area set?

Best I've ever heard is the Duncan SSL-5 bridge pup, which is what David Gilmour has used in the past.

I have an old DiMarzio "SD1" in the bridge of one of my strats. It smokes. Pulls feed back(the good stuff) effortlessly and drives the amp without any pedals at all. Just flat out kills for rock. The neck has a tex mex and an old bill lawrence single blade in the middle that don't get used much at all. Doesn't sound much like a strat. But it does rock.

The Duncan Everything Set may be an option.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/seymour-duncan-everything-axe-single-coil-electric-guitar-pickup-set

Has anyone try'd the Dimarzio area set?
I put Area '67s in my strat, love 'em. Great sound, no hum. Definitely check them out.

As a point of reference, in other guitars I have Bardens, Duncans, Lollars, Andersons, Gibsons and Lawrence (Wilde), and in '80s and '90s I had Dimarzio HS 3s and Duncan tapped Quarter Pounders in strats.

Oh, I guess I should also mention I have a H/S/S Strat with a Dimarzio Norton bridge, Area '67 middle, and Heavy Blues 2 in the neck. When I first got them, I was really looking forward to hearing the Norton, since it seems to be one of Dimarzio's "underdog" pickups, but it was the HB2 in the neck that really blew me away. A very mean-sounding pickup when played with some gain, it has a surprising amount of snarl to it (almost P-90-ish), but with lesser gain or volume backed off, it's very sweet and smooth, and well-rounded. The Area '67 by itself in the middle is very trebly and bright, but it pairs well with the other pickups in the 2 and 4 positions. It helps give all of the positions a bit more of a distinct sound with the other positions, moreso than you hear when you switch a normal Strat to the 2 and 4.

Van Zandt Blues or Rock.