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Blast & Sweep
mod edit: take this review with a BIG grain of salt since these AMAZING ZOMG KILL BKP pickups were listed for sale after a month
Reviving the art of pic story.
UPS man interrupts me during Miley time. I'll let it slide this time because I know its worth it.
I'm strapped 24/7.
Obliterate the tape!!!
What is it? Is the anticipation flustering you yet?
And there it is my ninjaz, there it is.
LACE ALUMITONE DEATHBUCKERS. Probably the worst name ever.
Mounted on a gold ring....what in the world will this go into?
Your new home is....
A heavily upgraded RGT42.
Review:
The RGT pictured is my ultimate death metal machine: a neck through mahogany body, and the gold lopro on green is $$$. The search for pickups is finally done with this guitar.
These pickups are quite the alien. Think of the degree of how different EMGs are to regular passives and apply that to this (compared to both EMGs and regulars). Its a whole different animal. They are so thick yet so clear with tons of harmonics no matter where you are on the fretboard. The have an extremely low resistance, but a ridiculously high output that creates a wide frequency response that captures everything beautifully.
I tune down to C# standard with 11's. When I first hit an open power chord, it was a wall of grizzly sound.....I was quite worried at that point. With that first chord still resonating I thought that these pickups would sound (i hate to use this word but) muddy and inarticulate from being overly bassy. But as I riffed on it I noticed that despite the gigantic low-end, it was the tightest goddamn pickup I've ever heard in my life. There was indeed that low end, but there was also mids and highs sitting there right with it. Every note jumps out crystal clear, chords are thick but have distinct clarity, and palm mutes are fucking devastating. It took time to get used to how much output these have. Despite the output, I experienced no feedback. (Lace said these were dead silent, but i did have some noise. I'm gonna blame that on my amp and power though). I think the inherent wide-range design of pickup captures more bass harmonics , but I ran through a GE-7 equalizer to trim off some of the low end and its downright amazing.
But it doesn't end there. These have an AMAZING CLEAN SOUND. I'll be honest, I don't have much experience with single-coil pickups outside the middles in Ibanez, but these Deathbuckers have by far the most beautiful cleans of any pickups I've ever played. So much so that though I thought this would be my strictly death metal guitar, I'm going to have to use it elsewhere too!
All in all, I'm really pleased with this and looking forward to trying more Lace products.
EDIT: a few hours later, I find myself playing clean more so than distortion, lol. Thats how impressed by them I am. They have a hi-fi sound, but sterile is one of the last things that comes to mind. What gets me even more, is that I'm playing through a Vader cab.....I can't wait to hear this through V30s. What gets me EVEN MORE is that I haven't wired them for coil taps. If they sound this good already, I think I will be in tears of joy when I hear them split. AND apparently there's no volume drop when split. suck it bitches!
Reviving the art of pic story.
UPS man interrupts me during Miley time. I'll let it slide this time because I know its worth it.
I'm strapped 24/7.
Obliterate the tape!!!
What is it? Is the anticipation flustering you yet?
And there it is my ninjaz, there it is.
LACE ALUMITONE DEATHBUCKERS. Probably the worst name ever.
Mounted on a gold ring....what in the world will this go into?
Your new home is....
A heavily upgraded RGT42.
Review:
The RGT pictured is my ultimate death metal machine: a neck through mahogany body, and the gold lopro on green is $$$. The search for pickups is finally done with this guitar.
These pickups are quite the alien. Think of the degree of how different EMGs are to regular passives and apply that to this (compared to both EMGs and regulars). Its a whole different animal. They are so thick yet so clear with tons of harmonics no matter where you are on the fretboard. The have an extremely low resistance, but a ridiculously high output that creates a wide frequency response that captures everything beautifully.
I tune down to C# standard with 11's. When I first hit an open power chord, it was a wall of grizzly sound.....I was quite worried at that point. With that first chord still resonating I thought that these pickups would sound (i hate to use this word but) muddy and inarticulate from being overly bassy. But as I riffed on it I noticed that despite the gigantic low-end, it was the tightest goddamn pickup I've ever heard in my life. There was indeed that low end, but there was also mids and highs sitting there right with it. Every note jumps out crystal clear, chords are thick but have distinct clarity, and palm mutes are fucking devastating. It took time to get used to how much output these have. Despite the output, I experienced no feedback. (Lace said these were dead silent, but i did have some noise. I'm gonna blame that on my amp and power though). I think the inherent wide-range design of pickup captures more bass harmonics , but I ran through a GE-7 equalizer to trim off some of the low end and its downright amazing.
But it doesn't end there. These have an AMAZING CLEAN SOUND. I'll be honest, I don't have much experience with single-coil pickups outside the middles in Ibanez, but these Deathbuckers have by far the most beautiful cleans of any pickups I've ever played. So much so that though I thought this would be my strictly death metal guitar, I'm going to have to use it elsewhere too!
All in all, I'm really pleased with this and looking forward to trying more Lace products.
EDIT: a few hours later, I find myself playing clean more so than distortion, lol. Thats how impressed by them I am. They have a hi-fi sound, but sterile is one of the last things that comes to mind. What gets me even more, is that I'm playing through a Vader cab.....I can't wait to hear this through V30s. What gets me EVEN MORE is that I haven't wired them for coil taps. If they sound this good already, I think I will be in tears of joy when I hear them split. AND apparently there's no volume drop when split. suck it bitches!
