Lace Sensors

[sonnyblu]

Re: Lace Sensors

It's a trade off... I have used Lace Sensors for many years, 1980... Yes they are not as sonically wide open or HiFi as a regular single coil, for tone. But they are smooth and never harsh with no string pull sustain or noise issues. Noise thing being # 1. Having said that about the tone, I can not tell on some of my studio recordings which was Lace and which was not. I went back to real single coils a little while ago... but I have recently switched back to use the Lace Hot Gold's... It is just nice to know your not going to have the noise and you will have more sustain and you still get a pretty damn good Strat rhythm tone. Some true single coils I don't care for at all... For the giging guitarist who doesn't know what neon or ice machine compressor he will be dealing with next... they are a very safe bet. ;-)

 

[Meggo]

Re: Lace Sensors

...They are exactly what I want there: smoother and more sustain than ordinary Fender single coils.

+1

Takai Strat with Lace Gold in neck and middle. Like them. Also like ordinary Fender single coils...

 

[danglybanger]

Re: Lace Sensors

I'm quite not fine with lace sensors...

The smoothness aspect bothers me. Not much character in the sound IMO.

They sound nothing like single coils should. IMO.

 

[CenterStaqeSilver]

Re: Lace Sensors

The poor EQ effect is due to the pickups losing treble and bass. I chose the Lace Holy Grail 1500 for the specific reason that the design doesn't reduce the tonal extremes; they're rich and balanced. I'm putting the Holy Grail 1500 in the bridge and the Jazz in the neck, for a 2-pickup guitar that is going to sound like TONE PARADISE!

Most of the humbucker singles use some sort of similar design to reduce hum, a design that suppresses a lot of high and low frequencies. The Holy Grail uses a different design that keeps the highs and lows.

Other interesting singles that are noiseless are the Lace Alumitones and the Q-tuners, although I find the sound samples from the Q-tuner website to hide their real sound by not having the guitar player do anything but concentrate on high harmonics. I don't want a pickup that can hear 100,000 hz, I want it balaneced from 10-25,000, or at least seeming to be so.

Or just buy an SG and shut up!

 

[jimo]

Re: Lace Sensors

If you only have one strat get some traditional pickups. I have several though ,and I really like my Strat + with Laces (gold). They sound like a cross between a single coil and a humbucker-(-to me-)-move them up and down and they give different tones---they sound great with effects--and are very quiet. I DON' think I would want them in a Tele. When the drummer kicks in--it doesn't make any difference anyway!--hahaha-----lol---------JIMO:reporter: