Can someone school me on Lace Alumitone pickups?

[goroth]

Regular alumitones are super quiet sounding. I mean, low output.

I’d try the deathbuckers for sure.

[Benn Roe]

I've definitely heard other people say that too. It's weird they market them as a medium-high output option.

[ibarakishi]

i can't speak for the regular ones. but i have a deathbucker in the bridge, and its pretty loud. pushes dirt really well, which is what i like to use it for a lot

[repoman]

I've definitely heard other people say that too. It's weird they market them as a medium-high output option.

They operate differently than traditional copper winding pickups so they have more output relatively to resistance measurement. Not sure how much though, I agree they are still very low output. They measure 3.4k, I think they are comparable to more like 7k copper wound, which is still really low.

[Benn Roe]

Yeah, I get that it's a different scale. It's just weird they market all Alumitones as relatively high output (on their site the regular Alumitone buckers are rated 7.2 out of 10 on the Heat-O-Meter™; with deathbuckers at 8.8) when so many people feel like they're comparatively low output. I'm gonna go with deathbuckers and hope for the best...

[goroth]

I'd say they were lower output than my Nelson single coils... and they aren't hot.

[Bon Hoga]

Just raise them a bit if you think the output is low.

[goroth]

I had a hard time balancing the bass and the treble and the output.
Disarm Darcy has them now!

Still, I'm glad I tried em. I could imagine for some rigs they could be rad. Ryan from Dr Sci gets a sick metal tone out of his, and my setup is really similar to his setup, but I just couldn't get em to do what I wanted.



Would almost consider keeping them for the looks alone...

[Disarm D'arcy]

Yes! I’ll let you know what I think of them in a while, after I et to play them in different settings.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I'd say they were lower output than my Nelson single coils... and they aren't hot.

My Nelson pickups are loud. Is your amp weird

[goroth]

I dunno. But my other guitars have a Lundgren M6 humbucker, Dimarzio Tone Zone humbucker, Duncan Distortion.
So maybe my frame of reference is screwy.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah I suppose I'm using all single coils so maybe they're only hot in comparison to that.

[Disarm D'arcy]

I've played the Alumitones I got from Goroth a bit now and in a few different setups and I will say that to me, they're best described as a modern take on the Fender WRHB. These definitely have a low output for humbucers and have a very single coil-ish feel with an extended range, as these sound really awesome with a guitar tuned lower (DADGAD in my case).

[huggernaut]

Anyone ever try the alumitone bass pickups? Curious what they would sound like in my J.

[Bon Hoga]

Curious what they would sound like in my J.

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