Noiseless Strat Pickups That DON'T Suck?

Today we're checking out the Z-Series Tru-Gauge Hybrid Noiseless Strat pickups from Lawing Musical Products. I had a Fender FSR MIM Strat that wasn't getting much use because I wasn't a fan of the stock pickups so I removed the stock pickguard and installed the following parts on a new pickguard:

Lawing Z-Series Tru-Gauge 55™ (ZV55) - Neck position
Lawing Z-Core Vintage Underwound 5™ (ZVU5) - Middle position
Lawing Z-Series Tru-Gauge 63™ (ZV63) - Bridge position
CTS 250K Volume
CTS 250k Tone (neck)
CTS 250K Tone (bridge)
.022 uf cap

You can learn more about these pickups here:
https://lawingmusicalproducts.com/zse...

Did this turn out to be a tonal improvement or was this a complete waste of time?! Let me know in the comments.


Gear & Settings

Guitars:
• ’18 Fender FSR Standard Strat MIM

Pedals:
• Kingtone Blues Power overdrive (always on)
• Paul C Audio Timmy V2 (Position 5, 4, 3, & 1)

Amps:
• ’08 JMI 30/6 TB Combo with 2x12 Fane Alnico Blues

Microphones:
• Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon mic (guitar left)
• Shure SM-57 dynamic mic (guitar right)
• Earthworks SR-25 (voice)

Audio interface:
• Universal Apollo x8p

Recording Software:
• Universal Audio Luna (audio)
• Ecamm Live (video)

Mic preamps:
• Universal Audio API Vision Channel Strip (left)
• Universal Audio API Vision Channel Strip (right)

Audio Plugins:
• Universal Audio 11176 Rev A compresssor
• Oeksound Sooth 2
• FabFilter Pro Q eq
• Liquidsonic Seventh Heaven reverb

Master bus
• Universal Audio Precision limiter

Video Gear:
• Fujifilm X-H1 mirrorless digital camera with 23mm lens, f4
• Aputure 120d for key lighting
• GVM-672S-B for backlight
• LIFX 80” LED strip + 40” LED strip for background lighting.
• Adobe Premiere


Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Position 5
1:23 - Position 4
1:49 - Position 3
2:16 - Position 2
3:14 - Position 1
4:36 - 60 Cycle Hum Test
5:21 - My Thoughts