Fender select series pickups vs Irish tours

[Chriscavilla]

I've recently bought a fender select strat with single coils. The select series is a beautiful guitar and has specially wound pickups which to me sound somewhat weak and lacking tonal range . Thinking about replacing them with irish tours that I love ( have them in another strat). Does anyone have any experience with the fender select pickups? Should i tweaking my amp setting to get a better sound? What is your view??

[Telerocker]

No experience with the select series, but I replaced the pickups of my Fender American Series Telecaster en HSS-strat with BKP BG50's (old set, which is BG52-set now) and VHII/Mother's Milk. In both cases a step up. Old pickups sounded weaker, thinner and flat in comparison.
Of course one has to get used to a new guitar, so it might be that you have to tweak your amp a bit to find the sweet spot for the select pickups.

[dingleberry]

I've had a handful of the select strats come thru my shop.  Great lookers but a bit toppy and yes all models the pickups felt under-powered.  I've no experience with the BKP singles but I bet slowhands would sound amazing (bias alert, I'm gasing for some slowhands big time!)!

Tweak your amp if you like but I've always found your guitars sound shouldn't need that much tweaking if you've choosing your woods/pickups wisely

[Telerocker]

Slowhands are quite beefy and not that quacky on the fourth and second position, so if you want (a bit of) woodiness in your guitar: MM's, Pat Pend and (hotter) IT's.