dsi1 wrote:
> 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.

Sorry.

> 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.
>
> https://www.tfoa.eu/images/products/...g-pickup-3.jpg
>
Oh wow, are those out of a Flying V?

The Takamine is like the old Explorer!