On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:28:03 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 4:44:26 PM UTC-10, cibola de oro wrote:
> > > 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
> > > >>
> > > >> 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?
> >
> > I have not played Lace Sensors but from what I have heard, it's an extended range pickup and a lot of players think it sounds "thin" and the output ain't that hot. The good part is that it's a quiet pickup.
> >
> > The truth is that I don't play much electric guitar these days - but I'd like to. If I built a Tele-style guitar, I'd just stick in a couple of Alumitones and monkey with the tone capacitor and volume control pot. It's not going to sound like my Strat but that would be a good thing.
>
> Bottom line with all this technical electric stuff....a good guitarist
> can make *any* guitar sound good. All this tech talk sounds like a
> bunch of bs from half-ass musicians to me.

You idiot - where would musicians be without technicians? I never said I was a musician anyway. OTOH, I agree that a good guitarist can transcend the instrument. I don't listen to guitars, I always listen to the player. OTOH, I want my guitars to be the best that I can make it.