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Nick · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:20 am Post subject:

Cleaned up nicely! Still need to tinker with the setup and pickup height etc... may go with a parchment pick guard when I inevitably upgrade the electronics but it works for now

sunshiner · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 11:12 am Post subject:

Current combination of white on white looks super simple and classy to me. Are Lace pickups actually humbuckers or true single coils?
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paul_ · . Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 8872

Technically single coil

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Nick · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:14 am Post subject:

The ~~shielding~~ RADIANT FIELD BARRIERS work wonders, dead quiet even in my noisy basement.

The red/silver/blue set is a bit more than I was expecting, in a good way. Such a different guitar from my 68ri now. The sensors are great pickups for people who don't like the strat sound, or already have a normal strat. Super compressed, tight eq and sustain for days. I'm not 100% sold on the blue in the neck position, it's a good sounding pickup but there's just so much low end already up in the neck on a strat. I might get along better with a Silver/Silver/Red combo in the long run but I'm going to stick with it for now, I might change my mind.

Bacchus · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:51 am Post subject:

I love the red/silver/blue set I have. Not stratty, but still a strat.

I don't get that super compressed thing with the blue though, it sounds fairly big and chimey in my guitar.
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Nick · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:10 pm Post subject:

So as of that last post I had only really played it through my 68 DRRI.

Tonight I played it through my Orange OR15, and my opinions are different now. Through the Fender, the silver has the nice warm straty sound, and the neck pickup is too bass-heavy. Through the Orange, which has more mid-range tendencies as well as a three band EQ, the blue pickup sounded much nicer and mellow. The silver on the other hand was nasally to the point of being unusable, at least with the flat EQ settings. The red sounded good in its own way through either amp.

I'll figure this out, might post a video tomorrow to give you and others an idea of what I'm talking about. I think I'm just used to having a guitar with more/less similar pickups in all positions, and just using the switch for different tones of the same voice. These pickups are all voiced differently which is great for versatility's sake, it's just clashing with what I know, which is kinda fun in its own way.