Lace Deathbuckers. Are they worth it?

Re: Lace Deathbuckers. Are they worth it?

Gibson 1964 said:
I have tried regular alumatones and deathbuckers in the neck. Deathbuckers sounded better to me. Though splittable alumatones did fine as well. Non-splittable ones were considerably weaker.
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Same here. I just swapped the Deathbucker in the neck pickup of my HH Strat with a regular splittable Alumitone HB. Tone wise they are similar except that the Deathbucker got something that the regular is lacking.....unable to describe. Might swap them back and use the regular for another HSS strat.

What I found for Alumitones, including Deathbucker and the single coil sized ones - I use all these, are very transparent and will not color your effects much. For example, I can use a Joyo Vintage OD (cheap and good tube screamer copy) for a convincing 60's, 70's tone and use a Joyo Ultimate Drive for a modern "Metal" sound.

They also reacts very well to the tone knob - turn all the way down to zero and you'll get an acoustical Jazzy tone, not muddy at all.
 
Re: Lace Deathbuckers. Are they worth it?

Just thought I'd leave this here...

 
Re: Lace Deathbuckers. Are they worth it?

Deathbuckers are fantastic. They're much more traditional-sounding than the original Alumitones and handle dirt a LOT better.

I have a set in my Hamer and plan on more when I can afford it.
 
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