On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:46:29 AM UTC-10, cibola de oro 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.
>
>
> 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

Now you got my head spinning - too many choices. When it comes down to the wire, I'll know what to do. Maybe I'll stick in a pair of these. They currently reside in a 80's Takamine GX-100 guitar but they would be mind-blowing in an old-school Tele.

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