Lace Sensors in a Tele

[halcyon]

Share your experiences, if you have them. Or opinions. You know. Oh oh, or pictures. Hey.



Also, accidentally made a post mistake earlier, so here we have the real one.

[Albionic]

Here's the lace sensor blue I just put in my tele bridge. cycle 60 is greatly reduced. It has a very clear sound. Seems to have a very wide frequency range. At full volume it is a big chunky sound becomes thinner and more toppy as you roll off the volume

[halcyon]

That's awesome. You don't see the blue used in the bridge too often. I just got a LS Red for my bridge, and a Purple for the neck. I know the Red is a beast of a single coil, but I am taking a chance on the Purple, as there is not so much info about it on the web. I think they will sound nice together.

[Albionic]

I actually found the blue in the classified section here. I wanted a hot pickup but not too hot and It seems to fit the Bill. I had a Kent Armstrong hot rail in there before and it was way too big and chunky sounding for me so I got the lace in an effort to get a more single coil tone that still has that rock edge. Im pretty happy so far.

[Tele-phone man]

I had the Lace T100N and the T150 lead set for a while, but I went back to Wilde pickups. The Lace Sensors were too middy for me, not clear enough.

[jackal]

Originally Posted by Tele-phone man

I had the Lace T100N and the T150 lead set for a while, but I went back to Wilde pickups. The Lace Sensors were too middy for me, not clear enough.

I also had a set like this, couldn't get a usable sound out of them, Keystones are far superior. Don't know about the reds and blues, but I did have one silver one that was decent in a strat.

[Teleterr]

? The Tele bridge Lace I had was just a Blue Strat on a base.Same ohms, same tone.

[bunnykeeper]

Originally Posted by Teleterr

The Tele bridge Lace I had was just a Blue Strat on a base.Same ohms, same tone.

Did you have the T-150? I've long suspected that the T-150 and the Blue Lace Sensor are the same pickup, but haven't been able to confirm my hunch, short of buying them both.

Would love to know, either way.

[bunnykeeper]

I've got the Reds in bridge positions in a Tele and a Strat. I play with an awful lot of distortion and at high volume, but the Reds handle both quite well.

[Teleterr]

Originally Posted by bunnykeeper

Did you have the T-150? I've long suspected that the T-150 and the Blue Lace Sensor are the same pickup, but haven't been able to confirm my hunch, short of buying them both.

Would love to know, either way.

The p/ups gone , but I had the Strat as well. I took the Tele off the base and put on some tabs and used it w the other Blue. I tried them both in the 2 positions they were for and no difference. Same DC ohms.

[bunnykeeper]

Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Did you have the Blue on a Tele base, or the T-150?

[Tonemonkey]

[Teleterr]

Originally Posted by bunnykeeper

Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Did you have the Blue on a Tele base, or the T-150?

The T-150 is a Strat Blue on a Tele base.

[TequilaCaster]

I had a set of Fender-labeled Lace Blue pickups for a few years.
After that experience, together with Bill Lawrence TL280/TN280 noiseless experience, I'll take noisy single-coil pickups over noiseless at any chance I can get. I'd even take the MIM ceramic pickups (as crap-fi as they are) over 'noiseless'.
(I don't like humbuckers either, which I believe that noiseless pickups essentially are.)
The 'noiseless' pickups, to my ears and hearing, just sound dull, indistinct, STERILE, and pointless. Ugggghhhh. YMMV.

[LawDaddy]

I have the emerald in the neck position of a tele, loving it. Lace's have been hit-or-miss for me over the years (original owner of a '92 Tele Plus here), but the emerald is my favorite Lace variant so far.

[chrom-freak]

Originally Posted by TequilaCaster

I had a set of Fender-labeled Lace Blue pickups for a few years.
After that experience, together with Bill Lawrence TL280/TN280 noiseless experience, I'll take noisy single-coil pickups over noiseless at any chance I can get. I'd even take the MIM ceramic pickups (as crap-fi as they are) over 'noiseless'.
(I don't like humbuckers either, which I believe that noiseless pickups essentially are.)
The 'noiseless' pickups, to my ears and hearing, just sound dull, indistinct, STERILE, and pointless. Ugggghhhh. YMMV.

i actually prefer the mim ceramic pups over all the other standard fender pups. they give me that jimi hendrix and srv like bassy oomph i want out of a strat without being too dull. they get the job done for me. for the mim strats at least.

[Tarnisher]

I put a red Lace Sensor in my Tele's bridge back in high school. I wanted a humbucker, but back then that meant routing, and I wasn't going to do that. The red Lace was billed as something like a HB, so I went for it.

I never much cared for it, though. It was dark like a humbucker, and definitely had a high output, but it didn't have the creaminess I was after. Very quiet, though- no hum.

I've since replaced it with a Duncan Little '59, and I'm much happier with it.

BTW, I still have the Lace. If anyone's interested, PM me, and I'll give it to you cheap.

[Tarnisher]

Originally Posted by chrom-freak

i actually prefer the mim ceramic pups over all the other standard fender pups. they give me that jimi hendrix and srv like bassy oomph i want out of a strat without being too dull. they get the job done for me. for the mim strats at least.

Me too! A few months after I replaced my bridge with the Lace I replaced my neck pickup with the neck pickup from my friend's Mexican Strat. He'd upgraded to a Gibson, but I loved the sound of that pickup, so he gave it to me. I still love it. I just recorded with it last night. It's got a real nice choppy tone to it that's just what I like for rhythm.

[Teleterr]

Originally Posted by chrom-freak

i actually prefer the mim ceramic pups over all the other standard fender pups. they give me that jimi hendrix and srv like bassy oomph i want out of a strat without being too dull. they get the job done for me. for the mim strats at least.

I agree. I don't have the Tele, but the Squier Strats 3.5K and the MIM 6.5K ones both sound great.Not trad at all , but really good.I've put their magnets under a HB coil in their P90 configuration and that sounds even better to my ears.Like a mini P90.