Fender Lace Sensor pickups

[Ricklh]

I've seen the "Lace Sensor" series pickups on a couple websites, on Musician's Friend, they're listed as Lace Sensor Strat Pick-ups. Are there only one "Lace Sensor" pickups that can be installed on both Strats and Teles or is there a set of Lace Sensors pickups sold specifically for Tele's? What I want to do is get a Fender Squire Standard Tele and put some Lace Sensors on it later on.

 

[iceberg]

there are better replacments for a squire than lace sensors. check out all the tele replacments from dimarzio to duncan, and dont forget fenders tele pickups. I like the sensors so dont get me wrong, they sound great. but there are other options out there.

 

[King Elvis]

I have both a Lace Sensor silver and a Lace Sensor blue. Dont use them in the bridge position because they suck. I have tried both of them in the bridge position and they just really dont have any character. I now have the blue in the neck position, the silver in the middle and a Dimarzio Chopper in the bridge. Its a cool combo for me. The Chopper is a great stacked HB pickup. Nice clean to chuck and no buzz. I highly recommend it.

 

[ZoSo58LP]

hey, on my strat I have the blue lace sensor ion my bridge, and it sounds amazing, what do you mean the sound sucks?

 

[Agtronic]

My dad has lace sensors in his strat, and though it doesn't sound "fender" I really love them for a high-gain metal sound. Really great. I find them to be a little bit "dead" when using a clean sound.

 

[Light]

I really dislike Lace Sensors. It is not really something I can discribe, but the sound seems sort of around the note. They don't have the directness of more conventional pickups. That being said, our shop manager goes between them and EMG's, and is quite fond of them. Of course, he has a Dumble, so he can play just about anything, and it will sound good. The really sick thing, is that he got the Dumble for only $700.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Agtronic]

Dumble for only $700.

OMG.

 

[ZoSo58LP]

hmm...i gues it all comes down to taste...i have lace sensors in all 3 positions, and I personally think it sounds better than normal single coils, although for some reason, maybe because the pickups are wired different, when you have 2 pickups on at once, it really doesn't noise cancel...that's my only complaint...other than that, I think it sounds beautiful clean or distorted, i can get a cool humbucker type tone if i turn my neck pickup tone to about 5 or 7 and turn some gain up

 

[guitarjesus]

I had the Red, Silver, and Blue on my Strat Plus.

I swapped them out for Texas Specials, best thing I did.


The red, silver, and Blues don't really sound Straty. To me they sucked. The Golds might sound more Straty.

 

[Echoes]

No offense, but I think the idea when getting alternate pickups is sometimes to make your strat less "straty." I know someone who plays a strat with 3 Lace Sensors (don't know which type, but they're black) and they sound really great. However, a tech rewired some things so that all of the pickups can be switched to series, or parallel or something like that (I'm not exactly an electronics genius).

 

[Light]

OMG.

Tell me about it. He got it about 15 or 20 years ago, before they where so well know, but there was still a car race between him and two other guys to get that amp. He got there about 10 minutes before the next guy. I just keep imgaining that amp being driivin by some Joe Bardens, or some Duncans. I WANT that amp.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[GONZO-X]

i a/b'd the lace pickups against the Bill Lawrence

Lawrence, no contest.

http://www.billlawrence.com/