Lace Music Products Sensor Hot Gold Dually Humbucker

I think Lace claims 13.5 but my meter read about 5.8 on one coil, 6.1 on the other and around 12 wired together. This pickup is actually 2 single coil pickups mounted on a common baseplate. All humbuckers are but where the Dually differs is that the 2 single coil pickups each have their own magnet(s) Each pickup has 3 wires; white, orange and green. The green on each is a hard ground and the orange and white wires on each can be connected in many different ways to facilitate lots of parallel, series, in phase, out of phase, one at a time, or humbucking options.

Passive Pickup

Early 90's American Stratocaster. Roller nut. Pure Nickel gauge 10-48 Gibson Les Paul strings. Replaced Dimarzio DP-110 in bridge position. Moved said Dimarzio to neck and moved Fender 57/62 reissue that was in neck to middle position. Removed Kent Armstrong single coil from guitar-never to be installed again.

Dually is in the bridge position wired to a push pull master tone pot. Wired series dual-coil in down position, inner coil wired out of phase in up position. It does not matter it is wired regarding the "humbucking" configurations due to the fact that Lace Sensors are noiseless anyway. So if you wanted a parallel wired dual coil config., it would still be noiseless. It would, however, matter what phase relation it is when connected to a regular single coil.

I have my Strat wired with a master volume and master tone, with the other tone pot removed. I will probably install a blender pot in the empty hole in the future.

Normal 5-way switch set up in the usual format pos.1-neck/2-neck-mid/3mid/4mid-bridge/1-bridge with push-pull options of bridge creating 2 different sounds in position 4.

I don't know of any particularly famous artists using Lace pups other than Clapton used to. He must've thought Fender Noiseless was better because he went back to them, and to me that is a bad mark on Lace and almost caused me to not try this pup because Fender noiseless pups sound like some kind of modeling pup to me.

I changet the pickup in the bridge of my Strat because single coils in that position, when played alone, with or without being routed through a tone control, is a painful sound to hear (TO MY EARS!) whether I am the one playing it or the world's best guitarists are doing it. They are just thin and have no balls.

I dont care what the meter says the resistance of these things are; when playing just one coil (split) this thing has nowhere near the output of a regular 57/62 Fender and even less than the Dimarzio, which reads about 9.5 on the Richter Scale. In dual coil mode the output is more that double what one would perceive 2 of those coils to be but I know this has to do with the fact that the one coil in question is out of phase with the mid pup.

I won't say this thing sounds bad. It sounds good. Not great. Good.

I will eventually go to a normal humbucker.

I have had many pups in this guitar in all positions. The best setup I had was a 57/62 in neck and mid with a Duncan Trembucker in the bridge. I wanted to make the guitar like a normal Strat then so I removed the Duncan and put it in a Les Paul Std I had.

I am gonna get an Antiquity with the chrome cover and all next and just forget splitting it altogether.

I have a Duncan Tele Bridge pup I had in here at one time and I will say that this Lace Dually sounds more like a Tele when split than the damn Tele pup did!, Go Figure?

This Lace dually is a very mid-rangey pickup and is ice-pick(ish) when split, so a word of advise; DO NOT PUT THIS THING IN A STRAT WITHA 250K OHM POT WITHOUT RUNNUNG THROUGH A TONE CONTROL!!! I promise you that you will be taking the guitar apart again to do this mod. I have a .47 capacitor wired to the tone circuit and think I am gonna go to a .22 to try and tame the highs some.

This pup will be for sale for the same amount I paid for it when I change it.