Better of two pickups for electric mandolin

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:05 am

I have a Lace silver and a Bill Lawrence XL450 (think a hot rails only a little more bitey). My (super cheap) electricmandolin came with an extra noisy single coil in it. Which would you use OF THE TWO? Any why? I'm not buying anything.

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:40 pm

So, this was helpful.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:22 pm

Lace silver, I'm not a rails fan.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:03 am

Lace silver too.

I think with the lace sensor it will sound more of mandolin and less of pickup, the XL450 might bring too much of it's self to the sound... Either that or it will make your mandolin sound like clapton's strat in which case use the other one.

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:39 am

Stuart wrote:Either that or it will make your mandolin sound like clapton's strat in which case use the other one.

l@l

I was leaning towards the Lace myself, but the match up so weirdly sometimes that I wanted input. I ruled out regular singles since the poles would not even be close to lining up. So these were the two I have that aren't really committed to anything.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:54 am

what about something like this or any little piezo duberry for that matter. They are relative inexpensive but I cannot attest to their quality.

When I've used none guitars; mandolins, banjos, ukulele and junk that you bang and scrape, it's just been done by standing near a mic, which is a bit of a pain but you get used to it. Come to think of it I've done guitar that way too.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:38 pm

DO THA ZOMBIE BUMP.

Going through the threads to move to this subforum I cam across this thrad. Mezz - what eMando have you got and what pup did you go for?

Better of two pickups for electric mandolin

Which one?

Better of two pickups for electric mandolin