Tradition is hard to change - musicians are creatures of habit

danishbacon

Fender was quite prescient back in 1988 but pitched it nonetheless:

'Creating a new standard of pickup technology'.....we know how that's turned out!!!

Grangousier

I actually feel less informed about lace sensor pickups now than I was before reading that: All I knew about them was that they were expensive pickups that came in fancy guitars that I can't afford.Is there more to it than that?

That's like the marketing team got stoned with a physics student and just asked him to dictate jargon to them. 

Funkfingers

Long story short, somebody attempted to engineer out almost everything that was fun about a traditional Fender pickup.

Jez6345789

Not sure they were the worse thing in the world my mate brought a Strat Plus and back then they seemed like a good idea and I never really felt he had a bad sound but then it was awash with reverb, chorus and a load of rack-mounted stuff LOL.

The other thing was it got you a quiet strat which back in the days of playing venues where stage lighting was two 6ft fluorescent tubes a quiet strat was a welcome thing.

But then I also like EMG 

impmann

Not a bad sounding pickup at all. They just sound different to a vintage style one. Not better, not worse, just different.

Oh and I *love* EMGs too...

soma1975

Whoever wrote the ad copy for that went on to write the made up science bit in shampoo adverts. 

danishbacon

trademarks everywhere!

Strangefan

The pickup is fine its the guitar players who are problem, stuck in the 50s.

richardhomer

I have a couple of Gold Lace Sensors in my Strat which is set up for slide. I like them - and as I’ve said before - I think Eric Clapton’s tone was better when his signature Strats were fitted with them.

Sassafras

soma1975 said:

Whoever wrote the ad copy for that went on to write the made up science bit in shampoo adverts. 

Wait, are you trying to say Laboratoire Garnier isn't a respected world leading research facility?

Fez

I have quite liked the strats that I have played which have had lace sensors, never owned one though.

SimpleSimon

Billy Corgan put them to good use.

axisus

Some players sound great with them. Personally I can't get past the horrible look. 

danishbacon

I’ve owned a couple of strat plus guitars with them and quite liked them. the guitars themselves tend to be a bit on the heavy side though

brooom

I've played a couple of EC signature strats with gold Lace sensors and I actually enjoyed the tones. But yes not your traditional fender pickups at all.

NelsonP

Sassafras said:

soma1975 said:

Whoever wrote the ad copy for that went on to write the made up science bit in shampoo adverts. 

Wait, are you trying to say Laboratoire Garnier isn't a respected world leading research facility?

Definitely not. They conducted a survey which showed that 100% of people* think that it is world leading.
* actually they only asked 1 person, but nobody ever reads this bit anyway. 

Back on topic - I guess this was all before Abby Ybarra pickups became a thing.

bluechargeboy

They are still making Lace Sensors 32 years later so they must be selling them to people; they're vintage technology themselves now!

Kittyfrisk

I like the description of the 2000 FLS . 'The Golden Strat mused on the Fender Strat Plus, the legendary 1950's Strat sound.'
Might be a typo, but its a candidate for Pseuds corner 

Bezzer

Love Lace pickups, fitted the Holy Grail set to my strat and they sound utterly fab.  So there

Jalapeno

A Blue FLS at the Neck position is bloody marvellous !

Philly_Q

Jalapeno said:

A Blue FLS at the Neck position is bloody marvellous !

When I had my Strat Plus Deluxe, I updated it to red in the bridge and blue at the neck, but I actually preferred the original configuration with blue at the bridge and silver at the neck.