American Deluxe Strat opinions sought...

[Bill Beck]

Can you get the vintage "cluck" on positions 2 & 4 with the Noiseless p/u's?

[blackstrat]

Not a big fan of Fender noiseless....I thought they sounded good clean, I did get a good quack though! I felt that they reall choked when they were overdriven.

I have tried:
Di Marzio virtual vintage and the HS series
Bill lawrence noiseless
Duncan Classic stacks
Fender Noiseless

My favorite to this point is the Lace Holy Grail. They are a different design from the standard Lace Sensor, which I feel have a kind of compressed sound to them.

The Holy Grails on the other hand were darn close to a strat. And the very slight difference in tone that I heard when I put them side by side with two other Strats with singes (New model pickups and vintage pickups) the very slight difference in tone was much worth loosing the 60 cycle hum!