Silver Sky - pick ups noisy?

[perius]

Are the Sliver Sky pick ups typical noisy single coils or do they have any kind of noise cancelling built it? On a related note, what are the best noiseless pickups for a Strat style guitar?

 

[RickP]

Although they are fairly normal single coils in construction, mine seem a bit quieter than my old Strat. In the 2 and 4 positions they are hum cancelling, so I assume the center pickup is reverse wound. As a direct answer to your question, though, they are not silent or “noiseless.”

 

[Rider1260]

I find them pretty quite for single coils, I have yet to find a noiseless single coil that I liked much. The ones in the Jeff Beck are as good as I have played

 

[Alnus Rubra]

A noiseless single coil pickup isn’t a true single coil, it is a stacked mini-humbucker of sorts, which is how it is hum cancelling.

I have no experience of them in a guitar, but I assume that due to this, they will be different sonically from a true single coil.

 

[dmatthews]

Although they are fairly normal single coils in construction, mine seem a bit quieter than my old Strat. In the 2 and 4 positions they are hum cancelling, so I assume the center pickup is reverse wound. As a direct answer to your question, though, they are not silent or “noiseless.”

I'm with Rick... OK just on this subject...
Anyway, mine does not exhibit anything noise wise that I would consider an issue at all.

 

[CVS]

Mine seem about as noisy as the ones in my 67 reissue Strat, but not really an issue for me. I love single coil guitars and especially the Silver Sky!

 

[CVS]

Just saw today that they will have a maple neck Silver Sky and some nice new colors........GAS forthcoming