high gain strat pickups that look traditional and ideally keep strattyness?

axisus

Whenever I play one of my strats I seem to hanker after high gain sounds after a while. I'm thinking that I may just try some different pickups out and see what I think, but the question is which ones?

Need to have the trad look (all single coil size with poles showing), and I'd prefer to keep the strattyness - although that isn't necessarily a deal breaker. 

Any suggestions?

DrBob

I quite like the Dimarzio Injectors but I would caveat that by pointing out my hearing isn’t the most delicately nuanced and others will doubtless decry them as sounding nothing like a Strat 

MrBump

My only experience was with BKP Trilogy - TBH, overkill and definitely not what I'd call Stratty.

ICBM

I think once you get above about Fender Texas Special levels of overwinding, you lose the ‘Strattiness’.

The best way is to just get some high quality ones which are well-potted and not microphonic, I think - then use an EQ pedal to boost mids and level to provide your high-gain sound.

fnpt

SD SSL-5

xscaramanga

I think ICBM is probably right, but I wanted a noiseless Strat and I figured I might as well go high gain while I was about it (I've got vintage Strat bases covered elsewhere). I've got a DiMarzio Injector and a Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in one of my Strats. They're pretty damn Stratty, tbh. Clean they're a little bit brash, maybe, but dirty they're very much my idea of a heavy blues/rock Strat.

stimpsonslostson

Another vote for the injectors. I had them on a Paul Gilbert signature guitar. I really liked them. 
Stratty at lower gain, brilliant with high gain- no mush.

steer

I had some power rail pickups from Axesrus in my strat for a while, which will of course look very different, but probably do what you are after.