Bill Lawrence pickups

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Just a quick note of thanks to all the people here who have praised Bill Lawrence pickups, I took your collective advice and today finally installed a B.L. precision type on my bass.
It is so good I I can't believe the major manufacturers haven't copied him. Plus his new guitar cord with solderless plugs - the ultimate in simplicity, and good.
Now to replace the pups in my MIA strat.

Thanks again

Clive
 
congrats!

a trio of L-280s in the strat will really make you smile.

if you're really into having a plethora of sounds, go the extra mile and get the Q-filter.

bill also provides hand drawn schematics for several different wiring schemes, including a very custom "hendrix" wiring scheme.
 
Unfortunately, the Lawrence web site doesn't have any info on their products, that I could find.(pick up sound descriptions, specs, ect.)So I bought Duncans.
 
That's alright , the Duncans are a big improvement over what I had.Thanks for the site.Bill should get his shit together and have something like that on his site.
 
Just a bit of background. As far as I am aware Bill Lawrence for the last few years has been screwed and ripped off by various people. This has set him back but not out.
 
Jesus, this bloody computer!
I just lost what I was trying to say, anyway Bill Lawrencec has largely relied on word of mouth, he has also just started his own line of guitars which should be awsome.
Delivery takes time but well worth the wait.
Unlike other companies Bill does most of the work himself, and doesn't farm it out.
I too have used Seymours and Di Marzio in the past plus EMG but these are the best.
 
i'll tell you this.......

my experiments and experience started back in '75......

when i had a fender mustang, and the single coil pickups in it sounded really good, but were quite noisy.....

then, i upgraded to a really fine Ibanez Artist, and that was during my search for the perfect LES PAUL !!

LOL

the ibanez won......

anyway, it had humbuckers, that were voiced just so nice.....
and a phase switch that had a really spanking sound......

but i still didn't have exactly the tone that i heard in my head.....

so i searched again........

ended up with a Carvin.

now, the carvin guitar itself was awesome, but the pickups were not.
a good sound, reminiscent of a PAF, but microphonic as hell......

and that's when i started with all the different pickups......

all the hot duncans at the time (1982-1985).......
all the dimarzios......

i'd say i went through 4 duncans, and 3 dimarzios.....

and since then, i've a/b'd just about every new thing on the wall....
all the new gibson pickups in the better pauls....
the newer fender vintage series, the lace pickups, all that.....

back in 1986, i had a custom axe built, and since i couldn't find a passive pickup that i REALLY liked, i put in EMG SA's.......
3 active single coils, with a presence knob.......

thought that was the deal for a while, a really good clean sound.....

til i realized that the active electronics just would not react the way i wanted them to through the front end of my mesa boogie.......

ultimately, i ended up with the bill Lawrence L-280s, in place of the EMG's.......

the most musical pickups i've found to date.

there are still a lot of pickups out there i haven't tried........

and i bet they kick ass........

but i don't know if they'd only cost $40.

like the lawrence did.
 
grinder said:
Unfortunately, the Lawrence web site doesn't have any info on their products, that I could find.(pick up sound descriptions, specs, ect.)So I bought Duncans.
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duncans sound muddy as hell to me....but after i started using joe barden pickups, i had a hard time using anything else. only other pickups i've tried that i can stand are emgs (and i only have that b/c my amp loves bright guitars, and this particular guitar had been too dark for my amp before)
 
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