dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 6:53:06 AM UTC-10, cibola de oro wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.lacemusic.com/alumitone_single_coil.php
>>>
>> Forgot to include my comments on these:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHE9sL1IfU
>>
>> Very clean but a definite jangley sound.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHeBClnTls
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>> Just super bright and even a tad trashy?
>>
>> A fascinating pickup.
>>
>> I wouldn't do an entire axe, but I can see using one as a go to for
>> certain songs.
>
> It didn't suit my archtop because an archtop guitar should have a particular sound to them. As it goes, I don't want a wide range of tones on an archtop. It's actually a bit of a muddy, dark, sound.

Yes, agreed.

> The Alumitones are the most radical design in magnetic electric guitar pickup in the history of magnetic electric guitar pickups. Theoretically, they are the holy grail of magnetic pickups - low impedance, high output.

Pretty cool!

> They do this by inducing current flow through a chunk of aluminum instead of coils of wire. They then use a small coil of wire as a secondary transformer winding for the output. This results in a very quiet, extended frequency range, pickup that is not going to get microphonic with age as pickups coils of wires can.

I like that term. "microphonic" and you're right, as they age they tend
to pick up archives, remnant sounds.

> As it goes, most guitarists prefer their guitars to have pickups designed 50 - 60 years ago and the Alumitones are holy grails that was kind of a bomb in the marketplace. My guess is that it's going to take a little while longer before guitarists move into the modern age.

What are your thoughts on the Fender lace sensors?