pickups for 50th anniverary usa deluxe strat from 2004?

[peter]

hi im looking to change pickups in my strat its a deluxe usa 50th anniversary i think its possible to go hss dont remember i must open and see if its routed in bridge
looking for a alround  anything thrown at it caster so any suggestion for both sss? and hss? thanks

[Dave Sloven]

One of the guys here put a humbucker-sized P-90 in the bridge of a Strat and that worked really well, so remember to consider that line as well (rout and pickguard would be same as a humbucker).  Gives you a fatter sound than a Strat single coil but still has a certain single coil character to it.

https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=p90s&sub=humbucker_sized_p90s

You probably need to be more specific regarding the kinds of sounds you want before people can help.

[Telerocker]

Peter, I see you already have a Crawler, that does perform very good in strats.
For a HSS-setup I would think along the lines of:

Crawler+Irish Tours (splitted you have Fender-quack on the fourth position)
Abraxas+Irish Tours (Abraxas has a little less mids and a bit more topend chime compared to the Crawler)
Holy Diver+Irish Tours (HD sounds more modern compared to Crawler, suitable if you play hardrock, old school or prog. metal)

For SSS:
Irish Tours with a baseplate on the bridge for vintagehot tones.
Slowhands if you want more mids and less chime.

Of course there are other options. That depends on what is most important for you.

[peter]

thanks :) irish tour does sound good on youtube and for the humbucker routing if there is one maybe i trye the crawler or a p90 dont know yet havent checked gonna think it over  thanks for replyes :)

[Telerocker]

thanks :) irish tour does sound good on youtube and for the humbucker routing if there is one maybe i trye the crawler or a p90 dont know yet havent checked gonna think it over  thanks for replyes :)

Irish Tours are very nice, overdriven of clean. They do have grittiness for SRV-stuff and Rory of course, but clean up to the Mother's Milk-woodiness if you turn the volumeknob a bit down.