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Just wondering what Buddy is using now, i now its not lace sensors anymore i just so him recently on Leno and he was using regular singles, any one know?

I'd guess that they are Fender Noiseless...but I don't know. Seems like the guys who were using Lace Sensors (Clapton, Beck, etc.) have switched to Fender Noiseless pickups.

Nowadays he play's regular vintage reissue stuff too... and that old Brown Tele Deluxe..MUCH BETTER!!!... even though I worked at Lace Sensors up untill just last month... I NEVER liked Buddy or Erics TONE...
overprocessed / overly compressed l garble-ie tone... If guitars are a human voice-- (and sometimes its true that they are just that indeed)--- WELL the LACE SENSORS are a silly ROBOT Voice.. theres no place or real need for them in music at all, there are other better ways to cancle hum while at least still having somewhat of a brassy human vocal eliment to it... not a TOY sound that annoys and offends other musicians.. ( All my friends hated the sound of Sensors-- 100's of friends..) It sucked working at a pickup company that your close friends hated!... and the ones that liked them or used them... I knew they were not hearing what the majority did..
Its really good to see Buddy doing something other then Sensors. he was the last to go!
I'll now look foward to enjoying some of his shows or tapes to come..

I never thought the Lace Sensors were awful...but they certainly were not for me! A little sterile or overly hi-fi is how they impressed me.

I've been listening to alot of Buddy Guy lately and have the Rhino quot;Best of of Buddy Guyquot; in my CD player at home. That'd be mostly 60's stuff on that CD...no Lace Sensors.

Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix were probably the two guys who made me get into Strats back in the late 60's.

But I've never been able to get into anything other than vintage pickups or vintage reissue pickups. Up until recently, none of the noiseless (or Lace Sensor) pickups have ever had the tone I hear in my head when I think of Buddy or Jimi.

The new Duncan Stack Plus pickups are really great though...I actually have a set of the prortotypes in my '63 Strat at the moment.

I use some Lace Hot Golds, but don´t find them being sterile. Perhaps it is because I play jazz-fusion on a Strat with them; a slightly compressed and soft sound fits my style. If jazz-fusion was a big thing I believe Lace would be succesful if they marketized some of their gear as quot;jazz-fusion pickupsquot;.

I saw him play the summer before last and if I'm not mistaken he was using lace sensor golds (maybe hot golds).

It was at the Crossroads Guitar Festivle, and they made a DVD of the concert, and I believe I saw them in a close up of his guitar (even when standing in the front row, it's hard to see the pups ) on his polka-dot strat

I also saw that joe walsh was using what looked like a mini-humbucker (it has a nickle-cover and the seymour duncan S logo across it) on a strat or strat-like guitar (it was quot;Jr.quot; style with only a bridge pup) He may have (probably) switched by then.

Buddy has been playing an old brown Tele with Fender humbuckers a lot lately but all his new Strats still have Lace Sensors...he refused to make a switch to the Fender Noiseless...I actually like Buddy's tone with Lace Sensors. If you saw him with what looked like vintage single coils...they were more than likely, vintage single coils...Buddy has quite a collection of 50's and 60's Strats...all of his old stuff is stock.

According to the Summer issue of Guitarist magazine, he has been using an early seventies Strat as his main guitar since late 2004. I assume that the pickups are stock.

I think the main reason players like Clapton, Beck and Guy used the Lace Sensors on their signature guitars is because of the noise issue. Hopefully some of them will check out the new Duncan stacks when they come out.


Originally Posted by Buck CannonNowadays he play's regular vintage reissue stuff too... and that old Brown Tele Deluxe..MUCH BETTER!!!... even though I worked at Lace Sensors up untill just last month... I NEVER liked Buddy or Erics TONE...
overprocessed / overly compressed l garble-ie tone... If guitars are a human voice-- (and sometimes its true that they are just that indeed)--- WELL the LACE SENSORS are a silly ROBOT Voice.. theres no place or real need for them in music at all, there are other better ways to cancle hum while at least still having somewhat of a brassy human vocal eliment to it... not a TOY sound that annoys and offends other musicians.. ( All my friends hated the sound of Sensors-- 100's of friends..) It sucked working at a pickup company that your close friends hated!... and the ones that liked them or used them... I knew they were not hearing what the majority did..
Its really good to see Buddy doing something other then Sensors. he was the last to go!
I'll now look foward to enjoying some of his shows or tapes to come..

Where are you at now?


Originally Posted by gripweed

Hopefully some of them will check out the new Duncan stacks when they come out.

Duncan is listing an STK-S4 on the pdf quot;tone chartquot; as a Stack Plus. I haven't seen them listed for sale, however.

Is that what folks were talking about in this thread?


Originally Posted by zimmerDuncan is listing an STK-S4 on the pdf quot;tone chartquot; as a Stack Plus. I haven't seen them listed for sale, however.

Is that what folks were talking about in this thread?

There was a thread earlier where Evan said that they would come out near the end of the year (edit -- in fact it is the thread you referenced). And yes, the Stack Plus is the name I believe.