Lace Music Products HemiBucker

I bought the chrome covered models. They are beautiful. Some kind of rare earth magnets in these. Lots of wiring options with 7 wires showing. Nicely done, lads.

Cheap Jay Turser LP copy. I bought the set so both positions are being replaced on the guitar. I replaced the volume pots with 500K audio taper alphas, the tone pots with 500K linears and the tone caps with 022 poly caps. I replaced the three way with a better quality switch from GFS.

The output is a little hotter than the standard PAF type found in a Gibson Les Paul. The thing is, these Lace pickups are hyper sensitive to volume and tone controls on the guitar so they actually behave like a lot of different pickups depending on volume controls and pick attack. In particular, they react to pick attack like no others I've ever played. I would also call them the perfect pickup because they do have the full on humbucker qualities and the p 90 aggression-all depends on how hard you dig with the pick.
Just a lovely tone for cleans using the in-between position. Very clear no matter whether pushed, clean or distorted. I play clean very much of the time but move into overdrive and heavy distortion too. Amazingly these do all of that well. More amazingly, they can mimic other pickup types very well. Really...there is nothing to report as far as limitations or downfalls.
I'd like to note that the Jay Turser guitar is not a high quality piece of wood. On the contrary, it is an acceptably shoddy piece of work. If the Lace pickups can transform this guitar into a fabulous sounding guitar then they must be exceptional.

Comparing these to Gibsons, Duncans, diMarzios and Lawrence Research pickups. Outdoes them all in my opinion. The Lawrence XL 500 is a terrific pickup in it's own right but i have to score the Lace bridge as every bit as good sounding, plus it's more versatile.
I love these pickups for all styles-clean, or dirty. They are shockingly accurate and clear. They can be used for all styles from rock n roll to heavy metal.

Unique marriage of two single coil pickups utilizing rare earth magnets and superior engineering. These are truly "one of a kind" pickups-as are all the devices in the Lace catalog. They are well potted and covered with a thick, shiny chromed steel cover. Each of the coils has a complete set of n/s leads so there's like a million different combinations possible as far as coil tapping/parallel/series/phase is concerned. Mine went in as series-humbucking.

Impedance doesn't seem to be an accurate indicator of the behavior of these pickups. Read on...I'll try and explain under SOUND...suffice it to say that the impedances for the bridge and the neck pickups are about what you'd expect from a set of slightly overwound PAFs. Ok...got that? Now, forget all about impedance....

These went into a Gibson Les Paul studio, model year 2000-neck and bridge. I pulled a pair of stock Gibby pickups off this guitar and let me tell you, I was nervous about doing it because the 498T and 490R pickups it came with were pretty tasty in their own right, in my opinion.
I had these in another cheap guitar for a while and I liked them...so into the Gibby they went...with the nice tone woods, nice electronics and everything else Gibson is famous for...

After the installation I worked out the pickup height and plugged straight into my Blues Deluxe reissue (2006 model-all stock except for a speaker upgrade.) I won't waste space trying to describe the versatility of these-for one thing you would be tempted to doubt my word. So in a nutshell I'll say that no matter what style you play or what tone you like I think you'll find it in these.

Sensitivity is off the charts so you can transition from the cleanest, rockabilly/country chickin-pickin telecaster twang to 70s hard rock by simply changing pick attack. Sound impossible? You have to learn how to play these pickups. They are instruments in their own right.

Try this one: rolling back the volume reduces the gain...but not so much the volume or the high end. (I have no idea how they do this.)

Sustain, harmonics and pinch harmonics: astonishing-in the clean mode!

Bridge pickup is capable of so many different sounds...just choose an area on the strings to pick. Close to the bridge will give you tele bright with so much twang you'll have to double check that it's a Les Paul! Move your picking forward toward the neck and it warms up but still retains it's brightness. Look, I could go on and on...suffice it to say that there is a rainbow of tone in this pickup. The same holds for the neck pickup, which can mimic a strat or yield a sweet jazz vibe. That's a lot of territory to cover-this pickup pair excels at every stop along the way.

The in-between position on the three way will do all sorts of duty, as these pickups play off one another so very well.

Honestly-it's just about unbelievable how these sound-not to mention how versatile they are. As mentioned, they are very different than just about anything I've ever played-in a really good, musical way.

I can't imagine that these could even be compared to SD or DiMarzios. They can sound like dozens of the best pickups from these two manufacturers-all in one package! You really need to learn how to play them properly to get the most from them. Or, just wail away-you won't be disappointed no matter what style you favor.

Overdriven or in concert with a good distortion pedal the Lace Hemis are clear as glass, sustain notes wonderfully and slip into musical harmonics with ease. Wide open-not a hint of compression, yet extremely focused and clear with gain off the charts. Notes are absolutely precise, period. Chords are defined. The"cleanest" unprocessed, distortion just leaps off these things. Again, how in the world do they do it?

Simply the best set of humbucking pckups I have played in my 40 years of guitar playing. I'm speechless. I honestly can't compare them to anything I've previously played but I think I would describe them as "the best group of pickups you can buy, all wrapped up in a beautiful chrome plated package." With that in mind-I got a bargain at 100 bucks each.

I never want to be without these pickups. They are life changing. LOL

Humbucker sized, standard mount - dual single coil guts - huge P-90-esque sound. 4 wire hookups - but by far sound best in full humbucker wiring - don't even bother experimenting.

Used in what will now be referred to as the "Hemicaster":

1997 Roadhouse neck, refretted with Jumbo frets, rosewood fingerboard -

2007 Custom Shop alder body, finished in rosewood oil finish -

WD custom 2 HB aged "Mother of Toilet Seat" pickguard with one 1Meg CTS volume pot, 3way Schaller Megaswitch, and Switchcraft on/off kill switch -

Wilkinson/Gotoh VS-100N Tremolo - GraphTech nut & string trees -

Studio guitar - still searching for it's perfect tone - now FOUND!

A bit hotter than say a PAF or Filtertron, but sounds more like a hot TV Jones or P90 than any humbucker. I was initially worried about a non-alnico pickups characteristics, but those concerns were quickly diminished when I first plugged this in. The first thing I noticed, was the sutain in all amps, modelers, and direct applications. It just sings, and does not suffer from the intonation worries of standard ceramic or alnico pickups I have used. Just for a test, I put these up to the point of near-string-contact, and the intonation was unaffected. Barium Ferrite (also referred to as "Rare Earth" magnets) seem to have their own magical qualities. The tone is much more like a hot, silent P-90 (well, more like a Gibson P-94), than any humbucker - which for me is fine. I can go from sweet Duane Allman neck tones when laying back - and by adding a bunch of pick attack, instantly jump into Ritchie Blackmore neck mode - rude and attention getting, all without changing anything except my playing. These are VERY responsive to user input, and this may or may not be appreciated by different types of players. I have been a session player for many years, and personally love it. Mddle postion yeild many coveted Beatle-ish Rickenbacker type tones, with an almost acoustic hint of glass. Really usable with varying degrees of overdrive, as well as clean, and without any volume change - which is really nice. The bridge is very much a "tele on steroids" type of tone. It can definitely get thick through the rigt amp, but twangs the whole way to dirtyville. It gets some really convincing Nashville tones, and smooths out nicely under heavier distortion - but the note clarity never leaves, even in mega-gain modes - very, very nice indeed. To recap - these are touted by Lace as being "single coil components in a humbucker configuration" - it seems more like a boutique set of Dual Singles, possibly reverse polarity, but not reverse wound (no scooping, out of phase stuff) - however the secret recipe is achieved - it is a fine recipe, and by far the most versatile pickup I ave heard to date. Absolutely worth every penny.

I have already ordered another set of these - just in case! I have been playing for over 35 years. I have earned a living as a session player, engineer and sideman at different times, and these pups hold up on all levels. I think that for the money, you would be hard pressed to find their equal - Don Lace has com up with a winner here for sure.

These are full-size passive humbuckers, with solid chrome covers, and additional coil lead wires to allow both series and parallel coil combinations plus coil splits. See Lace web site for full specs.

I installed these into an Ibanez AS-80 semi-hollow guitar. I have another AS-80 with Dimarizio PAF Classics and I have a 1983 Ibanez AS-200 MIJ with real Super 58 pickups. (I say "real" as some of the pickups that Ibanez has installed on other models are called Super 58's but are just not made like the pickups in the AS-200 and their tonality is not remotely close.) I installed a set of these Lace Hemi's and used the existing 500K pots which look to be made by Alpha. The tone capacitors are .022 Mylar. I did not wire them for split coils or for other optional wiring schemes but installed them like traditional two-coil humbuckers.

These are nice-looking pickups. While they don't have the traditional screw type polepieces which protrude beyond the covers as on PAF style pickups, they still look fine in my guitar IMHO. If you can look beyond tradition to try something else you'll find that your guitar may have more options in tonality than you thought. Good pickups can't make a bad guitar into a good guitar, but if the guitar has good natural acoustic tone it will translate well with good pickups.

I use a variety of tube amps like a .50 Caliber Mesa, Fender Blues Junior (modded), and Carvin Nomad. I also use a Tech 21 Trademark 60 solid state. No boo-teek stuff, but I'm happy with the amps I have.

My other AS-80 with the PAF Classics is still one of the best-sounding guitars I've ever played of the semi-hollow variety. Are the Lace Hemi's better or not as good? Neither. They are different. The DiMarzio pickups let me achieve PAF tones, but with more fullness to the tone and more harmonic richness, while retainng good definition. The stock Ibanez pickups really lack in harmonic richness and I think they'd greatly limit how good a $5,000 guitar could sound, much less a $500 guitar. The Lace pickups provide the harmonic richness I listen for and they have lots of punch. I don't mean icepick hardness, but tone that cuts. To my ears they sound like a mix of traditional humbucker smooth tone with a bit of P-90 characteristic thrown in. Having said that, you can still dial in wonderful smooth jazz type tones with the neck pickup. And the lead tones are just terrific clean or with overdrive/distortion effects. No mush. If you've got decent controls in your guitar you'll find that you can make real use of them with these pickups and get all sorts of tone shadings. As others have said these pickups are very height sensitive. That's a good thing.

I have a big gripe about these pickups. Lace needs to use some common sense. When you have a set of pickups - neck and bridge - the neck position pickup installs in front of the bridge pickup, right? The neck pickup requires more lead length. By the time you run the leads through the lead channels cut in the guitar you need at least three or four more inches of lead wire(s) for the neck pickup. Why do they provide them in a set with each having the same lead length (too short)? There's no forethought involved on the part of Lace. These lead wires might be just long enough to go into a solid body guitar, like a Les Paul, but I had to add to solder more wire onto the neck pickup leads. I had some quality Mogami brand jacketed cable that I used. It does not have to be Mogami but I used it since it's good quality and real flexible (and I was not splitting coils). Lace ought to consider how many other guitars are not made like Les Pauls which use full-size humbucers. I installed these into my own guitar, but I do work for other people at times. I would hesitate to use these Lace pickups again if I were installing them into someone else's guitar. I looks like you did a sloppy installation job when you have to do what I did here. I can't give these a "10" rating.

Medium to slightly more than medium output. I think the neck is around 10K and the bridge is 14K. Here's the deal-the magnets are the rare earth type, similar to the "neo" type magnets you see on some Celestians (Century) and some Eminence designs. So they aint alnico or Ceramics...they're rare earth types, got it?
The pickups themselves are works of art. Gorgeous chrome covers, 4 wire, super well potted. Excellent, clear instructions for installation

I put these in a cheap Jay Turser Les Paul (J 200) model. While I was at it I changed out the pots, caps and wiring to CTS 500K pots, Sprague orange drop caps and 18AWG wiring. All soldering was done with alcohol bath/63-37 solder & liquid flux for ultra tight connections. I replaced the stock Samsungs that came in the stock JT 200. I did the swap because I heard these in another JT guitar and was mucho impressed with the sound.

These are maybe a little hotter than classic PAF types. Don't be confused by the impedance values because the rare earth magnets have more to do with the sound than the windings. And the sound is much better than average for a PAF type from the likes of Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio. These are boutique pickups, for certain. They operate perfectly with the CTS pots at settings between 3 and 7. At 7 they begin to show some top end harshness-nothing to complain about. At 9-10 they push the (low impedance) input of my Blues DeVille 4 X 10 just a little too much for my taste. No worries though because I never have the guitar volume up past 8. To tell the truth, most players would not complain about these pickups with the guitar's volume and tone pots on 10. They produce tremendous harmonics and perfect tone. For people like me, these characteristics are sought after when the guitar volumes and tones are below maximum, which is where I run all my guitars. I need a pickup that will shine when it is throttled back to 3 or 4 on the volume pot or on the tone pot or both. I need a pickup that shines where ever it is on the output scale. These deliver. That's all I need to know.

I've had experience with many different boutique humbuckers over the years. These are some of the best I've used. I own a lot of expensive guitars but lately I've been experimenting with inexpensive knock-off models from Agile, Turser and a few others. What I have found is that replacing pickups and electronics yields a very nice guitar, despite the low rent price tag for the original guitar. It's been fun and revealing. To be fair, I have put some nice pickups in my Gibsons, Heritages and PRSs too. Frankly they sound just as good in the low rent types. These are flat out some of the finest pickups I ever head the pleasure of playing.

Humbucking, with Lace's custom designed coils and barrium ferrite magnets. Medium output.

Ibanez ARX100CA

In the neck and bridge position

Replacing Ibanez Super 58's in both positions

Someone might use these, not sure.

I changed them because the original Super 58's sounded to muddy, and the neck pickup had a very booming, unpleasant low end that didn't balance at all with the bridge.

To me, the output is about on par with the stock pickups, maybe a little lower. Not a bad thing at all. The "hot" barium ferrite magnets are new to me (not AlNiCo or ceramic, like most manufacturers).

I playing the Ibanez through a modified 40's vintage tube amp running 6V6's through a 12" Jensen, and my new obsession, a little Ross Fame 10 combo amp from the 80's. No effects, other than the Tube Blaster function on the Ross (think Tube Screamer, but with no control over the settings).

As for tone, it is absolutely amazing in comparison. I've had lots of guitars over the years, and this Ibanez was just a little jamming guitar for at home. It used to sound muddy and bloated in low end, no real sparkle or chime in the highs, and a gutted mid, since apparently this guitar really wasn't meant for what I was trying to play. I play mostly blues, some country and rockabilly, and classic style rock. Where the stock pickups would have been ok for metal and harder rock, these Hemi's shine at everything.

There is much more definition in the low end, and it has some snap to it. Fairly bright for a humbucker-gonna call the magnets they used on this one. The midrange snarls, and you can get some twang from it. Still a good thick sound though, but some real P-90ish snarl. The highs can be very glassy, but with some gain, they can be a little sharp. Just roll down the tone and you can get anything you want out of them, assuming you can play it!

Also, they come with 4 conductor wiring, so they can be tapped. Haven't tried it yet though.

For anything short of death metal, these to me would sound great. My opinion anyhow. With the right amp, the right chops, and the right guitar, they should be able to do anything you want.

If they were stolen, I would hunt down another set. And hope they weren't on a two month backorder like the first set....

I've been playing since I was 12, and I've gone through at least three dozen guitars, Gibson, Fender, Ibanez, and most brands in between. While they all have their own sound, so far these Hemi humbuckers have given me the best of all of them. You get a great humbucking, hum-free sound, with some great single coil snap and bite, a variety of wiring options, and a good value for the money, especially compared to some boutique pickup makers.

Humbucking pasive pickup with a medium output. Bridge is wound to about 10k and neck is about 7k. Chrome covered with no exposed poles. Great looking pickups. 6 wire allows for coil tap/parallel/phase.

I bought these as a set for my HWY 1 Tele. Pulled the stock alnico tele pickups and routed for 2 humbuckers. I added a parallel switch for the neck position to get a strat position 4 sound with the switch up. I needed a little more output than the tele pickups could give me and wanted the vesatility of tappable humbuckers.

Output is medium. About the same as the large fender humbuckers. For that matter these pickups sound a lot like those but with a little more range. They do cleans a better and they also get a little bit dirtier than the fenders. Very balanced tone. I play anything from pop to hard rock, and they give me all I can ask for. I play them through a Mesa Roadster with the 6V6 mod. I can get really heavy sounds that are still warm, all the way to strat/fender amp cleans. They are not for the jut-jut-jut metal/hardcore style, but anything else they can handle with ease. They get a 9 just because they aren't the perfect pickup for everything. But they are perfect for my setup.

I would buy these again. I kindof already did. I put these in my backup PRS santana SE. I just couldn't find a better sounding pickup for my style (pop, rock). I've played through a lot of setups (I manage a small music store). The Gibson 57 classic + sounds good, but no where near these. I bought them on a whim. We acquired a dealership with them and I decided to put some store credit to work. Glad I did. I've stopped looking for the all elusive "sound." One note I'll ad: There are 3 wires from each coil. That's 6 wires per pickup. If you don't have large wiring holes in your guitar, you may have to do some routing to get all the wire to go through.

8k neck / 12.5k bridge. Passive design. Humbucker, as the name implies. Beautiful thick chrome metal covers. Four wire. Black plastic rings. Good installation hardware and the instruction sheet for wiring options is good. Pickups are heavy!

2004 Les Paul Standard. Both positions replaced with these. Replacing stock Gibson pickups. My Les Paul came with burstbuckers. I changed the burstbuckers because I had the opportunity to hear and play a set of Lace Hemis in another Les Paul Standard at an open mic night at a blues club. I was so impressed that I ordered a set the very next day. Nothing wrong with the Gibson burstbuckers. They are outstanding pickups in their own right. I have no complaints about the burstbuckers. The Hemis are just better all around.

Moderate output with good sustain. The tone is rich. Can't really compare them to any other pickup but I would say that they have the best qualities of ALL humbucker pickups with none of the drawbacks. I've been playing Les Pauls since the seventies and I know what a Les Paul should sound like clean, overdriven or distorted, through all kinds of amps. I just love the sound of the Les Paul with humbuckers, obviously. I never had any complaints about the stock Gibson pickups that I have used over the years and I still don't. The Hemis just take that beautiful rich Gibson Les Paul sound up a few notches. They are in a class of their own and its a very high class. These don't change the Les Paul into something else. They just bring out the very best of the Les Paul sound.
These respond well to pick attack, and volume and tone knob manipulation. Of all the Gibson pickups I have used over the years I would say that the neck Hemi resembles a 490R when played clean but it is not near as bottomy. The neck Hemi is focused on the right low-mid frequency. It is warm but not too warm. Dig in and it will bark like a P 90! Has the harmonics of a hotter pickup but it is not a hot pickup. Is it the rare earth Barium Ferrite magnets that make it so unique and so good? Damn, these are good. The Bridge is overwound but it is more like a burstbucker than a 498T. It won't goose your amp unless you dig into it. Then it will overdrive with more harmonics than you could imagine, which I always wished the 498t woud do but as good as it is, the 498T overdrives just a little when played clean. It sounds just a little too hot and too trebly for my tastes. This Hemi bridge pickup is the most harmonically rich pickup that I have ever played but still retains the soft, smooth character and clarity of an old PAF. Remember that this is a 13k pickup! Lace has found a way to do it. The Hemibucker set is the best kept secret of the pickup world IMHO. If there is a better set of pickups out there, I don't know what they are. For me the Hemi set is the ultimate for the Les Paul. They are the best of all premium types of pickups, all rolled into one. Lot's of pickups TRY to be all in one pickups. Lace Hemibuckers ARE the best of everything in one pickup. Could it be the way they combine the single coils into humbuckers? Maybe it's the way they pot them? Whatever they do they do it right. These are right for all styles of play. I know I sound like a Lace salesman here but honestly these Hemis are so good, they defy gravity! I'm not the type to hype stuff, I'm being totally sincere abot these pickups. I totally respect them so they get a 10.

I highly recommend them. I love everything about them including the cool looking chrome covers. These deliver THAT SOUND for me. Can't imagine anything better, at any price.

Hemi Neck Position
Resistance: 7.0k
Peak Frequency: 2750
Inductance: 3.5 henries

Hemi Bridge Position
Resistance: 10.0k
Peak Frequency: 2600
Inductance: 4.6 henries

Humbucker style pickup. No exposed pole pieces, they are chrome covered with the name LACE HEMI in the corner of the solid chrome cover. Gorgeous looking pickups.

I dropped the Hemi set (bridge and neck) into a Jay Turser Goldtop LP copy. This particular guitar has a chambered body so it does not have the weight and resonance of a true Les Paul. Notwithstanding the Jay Turser build characteristics, the Hemis made this guitar into the best sounding guitar in my modest, humble collection. I replaced the stock JT pickups with these. I had never heard LACE pickups before, but I had heard they were really good.

The output of these pickups is low (neck) to medium (bridge). The are perfectly balanced. Easily the finest sounding set of pickups I have ever heard. Bandmates agree-even when played through ordinary solid state amps (Peavey, Roland), these pickups have all the attributes of boutique-type pickups, in spades. Never harsh, not boomy, always polite-in a word, PERFECT! The clarity is phenomenal; best I have ever heard. Tone is excellent, really outstanding. Trust me, I'm not given to flowery comments just to prove how smart I was to buy them. I know good tone and these deliver the goods.
Bridge HEMI:
Nice, useable bridge tone. As you dig in, it will overdrive the amp just a tiny bit. Doesn't get piercing when played clean. HAS A NICE, SWEET JANGLE. Perfect oldies and classic R&R tone. When overdriven, the harmonics jump out, yet the bridge pickup retains its clear tone signature. Great pickup for breakout solos, as this thing will get out in front of the band with authority and cut. It has a nice bite, yet it is fat and luscious too. This is a perfect crunch-tone pickup. Even using a METAL ZONE with the distortion knob at 11 o'clock, the bridge retained its clarity with deadly-but crunchy-accuracy. AMAZING TONE, Period.

Neck HEMI:
Just beautiful for Jazz and Blues when played clean. Has a very mellow signature; not as boomy as a Gibson 490R but just as deep. I find myself playing the neck pickup on this guitar more than the bridge because the tone is so sweet, rich and pure. Has some of the sound qualities of a Strat neck pickup. Can cop the Jimmy Page neck pickup sound with some overdrive and Santana "Smooth" tone with heavier distortion.

Neck and Bridge (Middle switch position)
With a dialed in pickup height to obtain a 50/50 output, they sound excellent together. I have mine set to a 40 neck and 60 bridge balance to add sparkle to the neck picup tone and I absolutely love the middle psoition setup. It kills!

Overall Sound: Perfectly balanced tone. Wonderful, three dimensional sound.

I've been hacking away at the electric guitar for a long, long time-3 decades, plus. I have three Les Paul guitars-two Jay Turser copies and a Gibson LP Studio. I also have a Jay Turser Tele Deluxe with a GFS 'Lil Puncher at the bridge (Fantastic PU) and a GFS Alnico Fat PAF humbucker at the neck. Finally, I have an Ibanez SA 160 and an Epiphone SG-310-both stock.
My amps are : Peavey Transformer with BB op-amps (try them in your Peavey amps..very tubey sounding chips!) and Rev-2 eProm update, a Fender Champ 25 SE, two roland Blues Cubes (BC 30-112 and BC 60-112), plus a Fender Princeton Chorus, a little Roland micro cube and a Dynaco SCA-35 that I use with a ZOOM G2 for stereo tube sound. I have premium aftermarket speakers, premium op amps, and premium tubes in my amps for the most part because I think these upgrades make good gear into great gear.
Effects are: Zoom G2, 2 Boss ME 5 units, ART FX module, Metal Zone, DOD Attacker and a Jimi Hendrix wah.
I use the Transformer for quiet Jazz and light rock gigs at low volume levels-coffee house kind of things...The Transformer doesn't do as well at high volume levels so I don't use it for Hard rock gigs. For rock gigs I pull out the Roland BC 60 and the Fender Champ 25-using either the G2 in stereo or the BOSS ME 5 pedalboard, slaving the Fender to the Roland.
I rehearse through the BC 30 and the Boss ME 5.
I can't speak about the rest of the aftermarket pickups out there but as far as the Lace Hemi-Humbuckers are concerned I am completely satisfied. They deliver "THAT SOUND" as a set, comprising crystal clear cleans, nice overdriven sounds, hard rock, jazz and even metal. These are the definitive humbucking pickups that seem to do EVERYTHING, perfectly.
They ain't cheap but are less expensive than some of the Boutique types. For a little more than the prices for SD or DiMarzio pickups, these will deliver 10 times the tone. Well worth the price. I would buy them again in a minute.

Pickup features: Humbucker with single coil attributes yet retains humbucker punch
Impedence or other specs: No exposed pole pieces / chrome covered.

Model of guitar or bass: Lace CyberCaster
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: none
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: Paul McConnell, Buck Cannon, Guy Walker, Tim Mitchell
You musical style(s): Classic Rock, Blues, Funk
Reason for pickup change: No pup change; these were stock items.

Perceived output level: @ 100 degrees not too hot, just enough to make you sweat!
Tone: Just like a souped-up P-90 without all that damned noise!
Sonic evaluation: I use Vox ValveTronix amps exclusively. These are stock equipment in my Lace CyberCaster. I have not played ANY OTHER GUITAR since I've had this one with these pickups; no need; all the tones are there.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Rock, Blues, Funk......not too good for opera :(

Comments: The Hemi's , again, put Lace head and shoulders above the status quo. They have gone out on a limb with some of their designs and proven that the limb will not break.