Just ordered some Lace Lifers

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iamthesuck

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I'll have a review within a week or so. I haven't been able to find any in depth information on them, and I couldn't pass up the deal. Wino was my favorite guitar player for a long time, so I'm really interested to see how these play out. Apparently they're smoothed out drop and gains. Going into a mahogany warmoth, 24.75" scale, TOM bridge, ebony fretboard. Hopefully someone will find this helpful! Even before installation I can say these pickups look great.

The black winter and super distortion that these will be replacing are going into a rehab project on a wonky home made hollowbody ibanez type deal. That guitar is gonna be wacky, and those pickups should kill in there.
 
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Just installed them and already I feel like the sustain is improved. My roommate borrowed my soldering iron so I'll do that work tomorrow evening. Looks beautiful, pictures incoming!
 
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I'm curious for more in-depth details about how the Lifers sound. There is very little info out there on them. I had them once in a Schecter C-1 (set neck mahogany superstrat), but they didn't make much of an impression, and that guitar and pickups moved on. Les Paul type of guitar would seem to be the logical application for these pickups, so maybe I chose the wrong setting for the pickups.
 
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Initial Review: These are the pickups I've been waiting for! The neck in particular is wonderful. If you ever have an issue where "too bright" seems to be a constant problem, these may be for you. There's a lot of definition even with heaps of grimey, sludgey distortion. Sustain is wonderful. Highs are definitely rounded off to the point where you can use your tone controls or treble knob. The neck is also similar in general tone to the bridge, with the bridge being a bit more quacky and bright, but not to the ear piercing level that a lot of bridge pickups have for me. I may swap back the super distortion because it's just a little bit more diverse tonally, but the neck is just beautiful and smooth. I'd never have anything else in there! It's so smooth yet crisp I can't get over it. I played Phish's harry hood jam/solo and boy oh boy, so dynamic, expressive and pretty on that.

I'd say I found my neck tone. All I have to do is mess around with the bridge a bit more to get a better rhythm/chording tone. The mid position is pretty sweet and oh so slightly twangy, taking in a bit of that bridge quack. All I can say is for $100 it was one hell of a deal.
 
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Further update: got a better tone out of the bridge by backing it off, and I think this is my keeper set for this guitar. I use the bridge for chords and rhythm (not metal for the most part), and the middle position and split neck for other rhythm flavors. Neck in full humbucking is my favorite lead tone I've ever heard.
 
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Very nice! Is that Lacewood on the top? I've always found Lace pickups to be very clear.

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Bubinga top. To me the clarity is really surprising because they aren't bright pickups. Usually the clearer pickups I've had have been brighter. Overall the general tone is really good, i'd even say pretty, in that guitar. I think they're keepers. I'll try to get some full band clips up this weekend
 
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