Jag wrote:PS1984 wrote:Also I like Ritchie Blackmore tone so I decided for Lace Gold. Then I wrote couple lines with guitar tech of Blackmore and he wrote that Hot Gold are now closer to sound which had original old lace Gold back in 80´s.
Hey welcome to the forum! As for Blackmore I am a HUGE fan and have found out that Ritchie didnt use very hot pickups. Early on basic stock pup's and later had some custom wound Bill Lawrence pup's. He got a great sound from a dimed 200 watt Marshall Major, with a Aiwa reel to reel used as a preamp, with a treble booster thrown in for good measure. He's got a thick 3D strat tone!!! I use Seymore Duncan Quarter Pound Flat poles and they give you a little bitier tone but still hold on to that great Strat Quack we all love!!! Hope this helps. Sorry for getting a little long in the tooth
Hi. thanks for post.
I´m huge fan too and I know that he didn´t use these PU. I´m in contact with his guitar tech who did for him all mods. Ritchie is still using Lace Gold Sensors in his guitars. But his tech wrote that these new Hot Golds have very close sound like Lace Gold made in 80´s. New Lace Gold have according him quite different sound.
I decided to pick Hot Golds with Hot brigde as my personal taste, but there is still classic base of Lace Gold Sensors. I play sometimes metal and I still have in guitar humbucker on bridge. So this will not be for me very different sound. It will be single coil, OK, but it will have output like humbucker.
BTW Lace Gold was my first choice, SSL-4 Quarter pound flat was my second choice (Tech wrote me that Seymour Duncan SSL-4 is copy of Lace Golds. He think that better sound have SSL-7, because they are more brighter - and that was what Ritchie like). When I wrote some lines with Ritchie´s tech a decided for Hot Gold.