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Post subject: Lace Sensor Pick-ups
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:23 am
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Hey all, I've been wondering about lace sensors as of late and searched old threads regarding these pickups. Not too many finds on Tele's, but a lot on Strats. I know I've seen vids of Tele's w/ lace sensors, but the sound is after it has gone through pedals/effects (compression, overdrive, etc...). I have a Highway 1 which I love the sound of the stock pups, but I was just wondering if anyone here has them in there tele and what they think. thanks!


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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:10 am
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I will be honest, I have HWY 1 and would never even think of putting Lace Sensors in a Tele. That is just me. In a Strat absolutely but for some reason I just can't see any reason to do that to a Tele..:)
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:07 pm
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Well something that's worth considering is that Lace Sensors are NOT humbucking pickups, nor are they active pickups.

Their construction however is inherantly noise resistant.

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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:34 pm
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Well said Mike, and they are fantastic pups...but, I love all the idiosyncrasies of the Tele's original pups with the hum etc..:)
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:48 am
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I think they are a bit too mellow sounding for a Tele, not harsh enough.

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:04 am
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I guess it's what you get accustomed to seeing and hearing. Fender never really went for a "traditional" model with Lace Sensors on Teles like they did with Strats.

Sure the the Strats had 3-4 different "flavors" over the years:

Strat Plus: gold label Laces for a "vintage" sound - a "natural" Strat but noiseless (of course you can debate about how "natural" the Laces were but that was the intent).

Strat Plus Deluxe - first version was a blue label/silver label/blue label for a hotter Strat; second version was a blue label/silver label/red label for an even hotter bridge tone to compete with some of the superStrats that other companies had out.

Strat Ultra - blue label/gold label/dual reds plus maple veneers to get even closer to the more "upscale" superStrats.

However, with the Tele Fender kind of went in a completely different direction at first, then came back to a bit more of a "traditional" Tele but not quite.

Tele Plus version 1: blue label Lace in the neck and a dual red label in the bridge. I guess they were going for something to compete with the then-popular HH Teles? Maybe something more like the Tele Custom/Tele Deluxe models of the 70s? At any rate they weren't really what you normally consider traditional "Tele" pickups or tones. The Tele Plus Deluxe added a trem to the mix.

Tele Plus version 2: Fender used gold label single Laces to get back to more of a Tele tone; however, they made this one a "Nashville" Tele by adding a middle pickup to it. These only lasted 18 months to 2 years before the Plus line was replaced by the American Deluxe line (which still had the Nashville configuration for about a year or so before Fender went back to the traditional 2-pickup Tele configuration).

My long-winded :oops: point being that, aside from the very rare Tele Plus version 2, we never really had a "traditional" Tele with Lace Sensors (and even then it wasn't 100% "traditional") for us to judge just what a Lace Sensor Tele would be like.


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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:27 pm
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Hi, I have just aquired a Tele Plus v1 from 1992, don't write it off as not sounding like a tele. I a/b'd it against my '09 American Standard Tele and the neck Blue Lace sensor is not a million miles away, as is the forward of the two Red Lace sensors in the bridge, they do have more fidelity than a 'conventional' pickup so lose that raw edge we all like, I also have a Barden equipped Tele and the two are pretty close. I like it and am happy to add it to the collection for the additional sounds it brings.

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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:07 pm
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Lace Sensors kind of look funny too.

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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:05 pm
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Yeah, I just saw a vid of someone famous (forget his name) but he was chickn pickn on his tele and he had lace in it. It sounded super compressed and I wasn't sure if that was his set up or the lace sensors. But, From what I heard (which isn't much, that's why I posted this) lace sensors do have that compressed sound compared to your typical single coil. Like I said, I love the sound of my pups, I love all the little nuances you can get and the harshness of them. I was just curious to see if people here had first hand experience with them, and the comparisons to regular single coils. Thanks


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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:06 pm
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I have one of the Tele Plus v2 - it 'had' the three gold lace sensors. I used it about a year with original setup, then swapped out for some SD/Harmonic Design Tele/strat pups. The laces were too compressed sounding for my idea of a traditional tele sound. The guitar was top notch fit and finish, only drawback was the pups. Now it has traditional Tele sounds and can get the 2-4 strat sounds as well, pretty sweet.


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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:00 am
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I played a session in 94 and was given a 93 white ash american tele with lace sensors, one blue two red. My main giutar is a 62 335 so I wasn't looking for a tradional sound. But I must say how much I like this guitar, it compliment's my 335. It's clean with great tone and sustain and still has a fender sound. I use it for mostly open tuning. I was pleasantly surprised that I like it so much.


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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:18 am
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I have Lace Sensors on my '88 Strat and love them, but I couldn't imagine putting them on my Tele. To my ears, they are super, super warm and would just about take away that "Tele tone" if you know what I mean.

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