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Rating: - It takes more than changing your pickups.
If you are going to replace your old pickups,in your low end Strat, with Texas specials you need to change the pots,switch,and the capacitor. Stewart-MacDonald (stewmac.com)has the replacement parts kit. The older strats didn't have the cheap parts in them like they do today. And the cheap parts will keep your strat sounding like crap no matter what pick-up you put in them.

I have done the whole electronics makeover on my Squier and it does not matter which amp I plug into...it shreds.

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Rating: - Texas Special Pickups
The Texas Special pickups I received to replace the stock Stratocaster pickups were noticibly different in appearance right out of the box. The stock pickup windings are copper in color and the Texas Special windings are dark brown.

I de-soldered the original pickups and re-soldered the Texas Specials following the instructions included in the packaging. The installation went without a hitch and frankly was easier that I had expected. I had a little trouble with my old soldering gun since it did not want to heatup to the temperature the solder required. But, after waiting a while the old gun started working and I was on my way.

After installing the new Texas Specials I went back with a medium weight set of DAddario strings. To be honest I really don't hear a huge difference in sound during recording using headphones. It is only after plugging into my old Gibson tube amp and cranking up the volume that you can begin to hear a little deeper growl from the pickups.

I was not impressed with these pickups and would advise prospective buyers to shop around before spending $140.00 on the Texas Specials.

Gazolene

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