Lace Music Products Custom Shop Power Sensors

Pickup features: Noise Cancel Pickups, Single coil size
Impedence or other specs: 6.9 Neck / 5.9 Middle / 8.5 Bridge

Model of guitar or bass: 2002 American Stratocaster
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Stock Strat Singles
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: None
You musical style(s): Blues & Rock
Reason for pickup change: Wanted to Find a Great sounding noiseless pickup!

Perceived output level: A pickup with all the best characteristics of a 1958 Strat pickup.
Tone: Nice rounded tone without having the harsh high end
Sonic evaluation: 2002 American Strat, Rosewood fingerboard plugged into a Fender Performer 1000 (Hybrid amp / 1-12" speak 100 watt amp). Played clean, with a Tube distorion and a Dan Electro Daddy "O" overdrive!

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Blues, Great tone for a blues player!

Comments: Recently I got the opportunity test pilot a new pickup design for the Lace Pickup Company, which has been in my guitar for about a week now. The pickups are called "Custom Shop Power Sensor 1958's", which is actually patterned after all the best characteristics of a 1958 Strat pickup.
The Power Sensor 58's have one of the thickest Stratocaster tones I have played. They have a nice rounded tone without having the harsh high end that a lot of the noiseless replacement pickups that I have tried in the past have had. They sound good distorted (both with tube distortion and an overdrive peddle) and have a sweet clean tone.
I had a chance to bring my guitar to a Local Sam Ash to do a side-by-side comparison to an American made 57's reissues. In the side-by-side test I did find the Fender singles to have a bit more sparkle in the high end but the Lace's were a lot more balanced in comparison, having an almost leveled high, middle, low.
To wrap it up, the 1958's seem to pick up every nuance of your playing. They are rich in tone and are not sterile sounding! The Lace Company has moved in leaps and bounds getting their pickups to sound closer to a stock single-coil than any of the past models that I have played. I
would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a meatier tone pickup.
I had the chance to speak with Don Mare one of their technicians who believes that there is no reason that with all the current technology, why someone can't re-vamp Fender's sixty year old pickup design and create Stratocaster tone without noise. I believe Lace is very much on track in doing this with their new pickup designs such as the 1958's! For someone who wants a little more high-end sparkle, I was told their model called "Bridge of Cry's" (patterned after a 1970's pickup) would have more of that Strat twang to them!

Pickup features: Single Coils
Impedence or other specs: all 7.2ks with a Ceramic bar magnet

Model of guitar or bass: Eric Clapton Strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Fender Noisless
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: ME!
You musical style(s): All except ....Death / Drop /Heavy
Reason for pickup change: Wanted more TONE!

Perceived output level: Just A Hair Hotter then my Stock Strat.
Tone: Dead On! perfectly ballanced and very vintage, but with a better ballance then I have ever heard
Sonic evaluation: Fender Hot Rod De-Ville

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Blues / Rock / Soul / Country / Hard Rock

Comments: I have never heard a Strat sound like this. I would buy em agian!
I have been playing 30 years and Strats for the last 15.
I own 10 other guitars , they are now collecting dust because I am hooked on these pickups 100%
Compared to other products there is really nothing on the market anything like this, I have tried just about all of them.