Yeah, it transformed this guitar. The aerodyne pickup lacked clarify, especially strumming away on power chords. Sounds better than the stock humbucker on my Ultra as well. Think I'll be upgrading that soon too. I love Fender, but for the music I am looking to play the stock pickups just aren't getting it done. I bought a ESP LTD SN-1000 recently that has Fishman pickups in it, and that is pretty awesome too, and pretty much is a Strat.