Hot Classics

.....and I have tried a few. I have the Hot Classic in both my Telecasters and they are superb. Just enough extra poke without becoming muddy or too middy.
Just a great pickup
Been using Toneriders for the last few years and can't see a reason to change any time soon.

Have used Tonerider pickups in many tele builds over many years and always been pleased with results/never had any quality issues...what more could one ask for...and a reasonable cost!

The Hot Classic are pickups of incredible value, I have mounted them on my latest telecaster relic project with spectacular results. In my opinion the best telecaster set at a price that would be an understatement to define as honest. The customer service from this company is the best I have had in many years. I can only recommend them.

These are great sounding pickups. Put it in my tele with treble bleed and grease bucket wirings and it blows my mind. It’s my 3rd set of Tonerider and it never disappoint. Don’t hesitate! Try them!

These pickups really impressed me. I was gonna go down the route of “these are really great for the money…” but they’re actually just really great full stop.

Considering how much you’d fork out for a single one of some other brands pickups let alone a set it’s bonkers what you get from these. They feel extremely well made and the braided wire is nice to work with. I dropped these into a Squier Classic Vibe as I wanted something a bit hotter and more full bodied and these were exactly what I was after.

I’m also very impressed with how quiet they are. I like to play with a solid helping of gain and they absolutely thrive on it. They’re perfect for playing post rock big riffs but with that nice single coil string articulation without making a fuss.

They also react really nicely to big reverbs and delays and don’t get lost, they chime through very well and sound rich and lush playing cleans.

I can’t wait to get these into a recording, they’re going to sound excellent.

If you want a pickup set that goes just hard enough for you to get some big riffs from it but don’t want to feel like things are out of control or unrefined then these should absolutely be on your buying list.