Lace Music on How It's Made

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4 жыл бұрын

We were very grateful to have been featured on the popular show "How It's Made" for the 6th episode of their 32nd season.
This episode takes you through a few of the steps that go into the magic of building our technologically advanced pickups. Featuring our VP and Chief Engineer, the Legendary Jeff Lace.
Since 1979 Lace Music has been making pickups, musical instruments, and more. We're a family business that has a passion for all things Music!
All of our pickups are proudly made in the United States.

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@KRAZEEIZATION 4 жыл бұрын

“He listens and confirms the tone is good”!!!!

@bradford_shaun_murray 2 жыл бұрын

4:13 that didn't just sound good - it sounded incredibly amazing !

@MrTooter007 3 жыл бұрын

"He puts the lotion on the skin, or gets the hose again."

@Metalbass10000 2 жыл бұрын

I have three sets of pickups built by, and signed by Jeff lace, two variations of the Alumitone pickups, and one Deathbucker set, I will be using on upcoming custom builds. Looking forward to hearing them

@doctersound9630 4 ай бұрын

Very cool nice video.

@jeffxanders3990 Жыл бұрын

My new 10 string lapsteel will have an alumitone on it and I can't wait to see how good I can make it sound 💞

@pepticon 4 жыл бұрын

need to rewound old gold sensor. now I know how to mount the bobbin to winding machine and how many turns I should go.

@msmm.2871 4 жыл бұрын

Todas mis guitarras llevan instaladas pastillas Lace. Son geniales ! Saludos a Reggie desde España ;)

@blueasher 4 жыл бұрын

Gracias my friend. Reggie

@5ucAyman Жыл бұрын

interesting build lace pickups

@AndrewDawsonBrown 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@salmonline 4 жыл бұрын

Neat. I have one of your Huntington Strat-type guitars, bought from Elderly Instruments. It had DiMarzios in it when I got it. What were the original pickups. It's a 2 Humbucker. 3+3 headstock model.

@blueasher 4 жыл бұрын

The Lace Huntington guitars used Powered by Lace pickups. The PBL pickups are not Sensors and were made in Asia.

@salmonline 4 жыл бұрын

@@blueasher I see. Thanks.👍

@criot1124 2 жыл бұрын

That gentlemen at the end of the video playing that Lace tele, are those the Max's "Downstroyers" pickups? I just order some been wondering how they sound in a clean tone and with distortion? I cant find any videos or so with them showing how they sound, i guess ima have to do a video of how they sound. By the way this is my second Lace pickup i own. My 1st are the finger burners, so far they sound good a lil bit to bright but in the mix recording they come out fine.

@AndyNyle 3 жыл бұрын

very similar to ceramic pickup where the magnet strips of laces replace bar magnets of the ceramics.

@chrispile3878 4 ай бұрын

Nope.

@davidhyslop3376 8 ай бұрын

the problem with these pickus is they are now cased in resin ,the wires break of when you rout them in the guitar body because the wires are not in the middle of the pickup so be very carefull when fitting

@chrispile3878 4 ай бұрын

No, they don't. Just because you're a clod, don't assume the rest of the world is as clumsy as you.

@boblonghurst5111 2 жыл бұрын

My new Golds, just purchased advise a very close distance of just a few mm from the strings, yet my Fender Strat, book advises 0.170 inches, which is a much further distance. Any comments please.

@blueasher 2 жыл бұрын

Lace recommends the approximate height of two nickels and a dime, as the distance between the Lace Sensor pickup surface and the strings. This is a starting place and feel free to plug into your favorite amp and tweak from there. As a general rule with most guitar pickups, the closer to the strings, the more perceived output. However the further away the sweeter the tone.

@geraldhenrickson7472 Жыл бұрын

I would consider either just a few millimeters. If changing the pickups, go with the pickup creators suggested pickup height and adjust until you feel it sounds the best.

@bootlegapples 2 жыл бұрын

It's neat to see however there is just not enough demos of the pickups themselves..funny that they'd neglect that given the radical departure in design and frequency response.

@parasharkchari 2 жыл бұрын

Did that narrator seriously denote that direction of current flow is known as "phase" and strength of the field is "polarity"?

@geraldhenrickson7472 Жыл бұрын

Well...of the two I believe they got zero correct.

@chronicalcultivation 4 жыл бұрын

You guys still in business?

@LaceMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@chrispile3878 4 ай бұрын

Still kicking ass, you mean?

@TheXxPSYCHO 2 жыл бұрын

What we do is we get all the old shower doors and strip that cheap Chinese self-adhesive magnets and charge $200 a piece

@LaceMusic Жыл бұрын

Lace Sensors are $79.99 each at the time of writing this comment. Seems like a fair price for a cutting edge product. We also don't use shower door magnets (to be honest, we're not even sure what shower door magnets are) we use very specific custom made magnet tape. We proudly build all of our pickups by hand and purposefully do not use conventional materials. We would like to avoid ending up with a pickup that looks and sounds like every other pickup made for the past 100 years.

@TheXxPSYCHO Жыл бұрын

@@LaceMusic yeah my shower door specifically uses the same 'custom' magnetic tape

@LaceMusic Жыл бұрын

@@TheXxPSYCHO Why come to our video and go out of your way to be wrong? Never mind that there are hundreds of different types of commercially available magnet tapes that vary in size, materials, strength etc. What was I thinking? I'm certain the company that made your shower door spent years sourcing the correct material and deciding on the correct chemical composition, gauss, and polarity of the magnet tape it uses in order to generate a magnetic field that is conducive to pickup tone. Then I'm sure they had it custom made for them by an American based magnetics company. You definitely got it all figured out! Thanks for your feedback!

@erickleefeld4883 Жыл бұрын

By themselves the magnets in a DiMarzio, Seymour Duncan, or a custom-made Lollar are no more special than the magnets in a Lace. This is physics, not magic! What you’re getting is the total design, the construction with all the other components, etc.

@geraldhenrickson7472 Жыл бұрын

There is an element of magic involved when designing and manufacturing a guitar pickup. Just look at the Hogwarts pickup, limited edition Hermione model.