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.
It certainly is the quietest I have seen, yes.
Stacked to humbuck they offer a lot of tapping phase variance.
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Lace/Sen...74115044202.gc
The Lace Sensor Red-Red Dually is a humbucker pickup constructed from 2
Sensor Red single coil pickups for guitar tone without hum.
Lace Red Sensor pickups have a unique radiant Field Barrier system that
surrounds both the coil and magnets, reducing annoying 60-cycle hum. The
patented Lace Micro Combs replace traditional bobbins, yielding a wider
tonal range and better string balance than traditional pickups.
Unlike ordinary pickups, it generates 36 separate magnetic "sensing"
fields that, in the areas where they contact the string, "read" the
strings' vibration. (Regular guitar pickups only generate anywhere from
4 to 12 fields).
The Lace Sensor guitar pickup also has Radiant Field Barriers: metal
slides that frame the inner core of the Sensors and perform two
functions. The first is to shield the Sensor from the outside noise and
60-cycle hum. The second is to produce broader, yet more concentrated,
umbrellas of sensing field than standard magnetic pickups.
Less Noise, More Harmonics
As compared to standard pickups, the Lace pickup reads a greater
physical area of the string, while picking up less outside interference.
This makes the signal-to-noise ratio nothing short of phenomenal for a
single coil system. Also, a wider range of harmonic content is read by
the Sensor, delivering a more complex tonal response.
> 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.
I get you on the alumitones, but adding a lace humbucker could give it
some real tonal flexibility.
But maybe you'll use:
http://www.lacemusic.com/alumitone_humbucker.php
The Next generation in Humbucker Pickups for Electric Guitar... The
first totally modern electric guitar pickup of this century.
Huge top and bottom end.
Huge passive design.
Noise-free design