[Dave]

My main guitar for years was a Legacy Special with these pickups. They're made by gotoh and I think they sound pretty good. They sound nice and thick for a pickup of this type and the out of phase sounds sound stratty but the neck and bridge alone don't sound anything like a single coil, which is what I wanted at the time. To answer your question, yes I think you can get some good rock tones out of these but they don't sound like full humbuckers by any stretch.