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They sound very "rounded" and focussed without the harsh glassiness that some sets have. That said there's plenty of clarity so nothing overwound or muddy sounding about them. I could imagine these being great for classic rock in the Blackmore / Gallagher vein. Loads of fat power from that neck pickup and the bridge having powerful mids without the scratchy overtones some have.
I have a naturally quite bright ash bodied strat that I bet these would sound great in!
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I've wired them in and quickly put a cheap nut on and even though the action isn't amazing, by god do these scream.
Actually quite happy for classic metal, but excel at modern djent and tech metal styles which have a lot of upper mid/treble content for clarity at high gain across complex chords. I've whacked out some protest the hero on it, and it's excellent for it. I've not noticed hum either, but I'm used to running single coils and don't use hefty amounts of gain for my crunch sounds.
Clean, they're lovely. Bright but warm, and very very clear. The bridge is twangy too, much more so than the calibre 53 bridge pickup I've got in my strat. So it does have a very "tele" voicing.
It won't do that huge, thick, roaring saturated crunch you hear on trivium records quite so well as humbucker pickups, but that's why we buy humbuggies! Instead, these are probably the wet dream of rock, fusion, country (seriously) and alternative, fuzzy rock pickup.
All of this is very preliminary - the guitar is going to @felineguitars for a set up and proper nut in November, so I'll give a more in depth review then. But in short, yes, masterwound is coming to tele. And it's very loud
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