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The Sensor Gold™ - World Class Tone. We have built these world famous patented pickups since 1985. Used exclusively by Fender® until 1996.

The entire line is available directly through Lace Music Products. The pickups have the same specifications with the same great tone. Gold Lace Sensor are designed to duplicate an early Fender® single coil pickup. Crisp top end and bell-like tone, the Lace Sensor Gold™ utilizes the latest technology to provide excellent tone for today's players.

The Lace Sensor® family has a unique radiant Field Barrier system that surrounds both the coil and magnets, reducing annoying 60-cycle hum. The patented Lace Micro Combs® replace traditional bobbins, yielding a wider tonal range and better string balance than traditional pickups.

Unlike ordinary pickups, Lace Sensors generate 36 separate magnetic "sensing" fields which, in the areas where they contact the string, "read" the strings' vibration. (Regular pickups only generate anywhere from 4 to 12 fields).

Lace Sensors also have Radiant Field Barriers: metal slides which frame the inner core of the Sensors and perform two function. The first is to shield the Sensor from the outside noise and 60 cycle hum. The second is to produce a broader, yet more concentrated umbrella of a sensing field than that of standard magnetic pickups.

Less Noise, More Harmonics

As compared to standard pickups, sensors read a greater physical area of the string, while picking up less outside interference. This makes the signal-to-noise ratio nothing short of phenomenal for a single coil system. Also, a wider range of harmonic content is read by the Sensor, delivering a more complex tonal response.

Increased Sustain, Truer Pitch
Since they operate so efficiently, Lace Sensors can utilize the much lower energy magnets than ordinary pickups, and this in turn bring about a whole new realm of properties. In regular pickups, the magnetic fields are so strong they physically dampen, or drag on, the strings' vibration, reducing sustain and actually changing the pitch. But in Lace Sensor, string dampening is virtually nonexistent. This means your sustain is increased dramatically while the string holds its true pitch for the duration of the note.

ADJUSTMENT TIP: For optimum tone and output from our Sensors, we recommend adjusting the height to .170" from string to pickup, or approx. the height of 2 dimes and a nickel. (REMEMBER string thickness applies to height - use bottom of string closest to pickup for measurement.)



Lace Sensor-Gold: A classic 50's Style single coil sound with a classy bell. Postion: neck, mid, bridge Resistance: 5.8k Peak Frequency: 3600 Inductance: 2.4 henries Music Styles: Vintage Rock, Blues, Country, and R&B, Funk Think: Clapton, Beck	Lace Sensor-Silver: A fat 70's single coil sound with increased output and more midrange. Postion: neck, mid Resistance: 7.1k Peak Frequency: 3000 Inductance: 3.38 henries Music Styles: Vintage & Classic Rock, Blues, and Pop Think: Pumpkins, Breeders, James Burton


Lace Sensor-Light Blue: Warm, punchy, Jazz Blues neck pickup, or thicker, middle and bridge tone Postion: neck, mid, bridge Resistance: 8.0k Peak Frequency: 2984 Inductance: 8.0 henries Music Styles: Rock, Blues Think: Ritenour, Carlton	New! Lace Sensor-Burgundy: Recommended as Bridge pickup for slightly fatter tone. Postion: neck, mid, bridge Resistance: 8.9k Peak Frequency: 2700 Inductance: 4.44 henries Music Styles: Rock, Blues, Fusion, Progressive Think: Page, Gary Moore, Santana

Lace Sensor-Blue: Slightly increased output with the warmer 50's humbucking sound in a single coil configuration Postion: neck, bridge Resistance: 12.8k Peak Frequency: 2100 Inductance: 6.58 henries Music Styles: Pop, Alternative, Rock, Blues, Agressive Think: Jonny Greenwood, Pumpkins, Bloomfield, Cream	Lace Sensor-Red: The hottest output of our Sensor Series. Perfect for the bridge position when fat, punch humbucking output is required. Postion: bridge Resistance: 14.5k Peak Frequency: 1850 Inductance: 8.12 henries Music Styles: All Rock, Metal, Aggressive, Punk, and Pop Think: Jonny Greenwood, Pumpkins, Husker Du, Breeders, Drips

New! Lace Sensor-Emerald: That Texas-inspired tone without the noise! All you want for that style of music! Postion: neck, mid Resistance: 5.7k Peak Frequency: 3450 Inductance: 2.7 henries Music Styles: Boogie, Blues, Rock, Country, Jazz Think: SRV, Billy Gibbons a la Tres Hombres, David Grissom	New! Lace Sensor-Purple: Hot overwound single coil tone, between a Burgundy and Blue Sensor. Designed for bridge or a P-90-type tone in the neck. Postion: neck/bridge Resistance: 10.5k Peak Frequency: 2400 Inductance: 5.8 henries Music Styles: All Rock, Blues, R&B, Funk and Pop Think: Blackmore, Hendrix, Ron Wood, McKnight
	NEW! Select Lace Sensors now available in V-Sensor format. Available for the Gold (single & 3 pack) and the Value Pack (Blue, Silver, Red). That great Lace tone with poles for that vintage look. Available in White (Shown), Black, Cream and Mint.


Sets also available:	Sensor Golds Pack, 3 pickup set S-S-S includes 3 Gold Sensors (Shown in Black) Sensor Plus Pack, 3 pickup set S-S-S includes 1 Blue, 1 Silver, and 1 Red Sensor (Video below) Sensor Rainbow Pack, 3 pickup set S-S-S includes 1 Emerald, 1 RWRP Silver, and 1 Purple Sensor (Video below)

NEW!

Select Lace Sensors now available in V-Sensor format. Available for the Gold (single & 3 pack) and the Value Pack (Blue, Silver, Red). That great Lace tone with poles for that vintage look. Available in White (Shown), Black, Cream and Mint.

Sets also available:

Sensor Golds Pack, 3 pickup set S-S-S includes 3 Gold Sensors (Shown in Black)

Sensor Plus Pack, 3 pickup set S-S-S includes 1 Blue, 1 Silver, and 1 Red Sensor (Video below)

Sensor Rainbow Pack, 3 pickup set S-S-S includes 1 Emerald, 1 RWRP Silver, and 1 Purple Sensor (Video below)